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Rice Agriculture: Emissions

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Abstract

Rice agriculture has long been recognized as a major source of methane (CH4). Global budgets of methane have generally included emissions of about 100 Tg/yr (Tg = Teragrams, 1012 grams) from rice agriculture (with a range of 50–300 Tg/yr), constituting about 20% of emissions from all sources (range 14%–40%) (Ehhalt and Schmidt, 1978; Donahue, 1979; Khalil and Rasmussen, 1983; Blake, 1984; Bolle et al., 1986; Bingemer and Crutzen, 1987; Cicerone and Oremland, 1988; Warneck, 1988; Khalil and Rasmussen, 1990). The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 1990) estimates a source of 60 Tg/yr (range 20–150 Tg/yr).

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Shearer, M.J., Khalil, M.A.K. (1993). Rice Agriculture: Emissions. In: Khalil, M.A.K. (eds) Atmospheric Methane: Sources, Sinks, and Role in Global Change. NATO ASI Series, vol 13. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84605-2_12

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