Paul I Palmer

Biographic Data

ID6820599
NAMEPaul I Palmer
GIVEN NAMESPaul I
FAMILY NAMEPalmer
SIGNATUREPALMER P I
AFFILIATIONSNational Centre for Earth Observation
ORCID0000-0002-1487-0969
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX0

  • Satellite data reveal how Sudd wetland dynamics are linked with globally-significant methane emissions

    Open AccessAndrew Hardy, Paul I Palmer et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2023

    Recent work has highlighted the large role of methane emissions from the Sudd wetland and surrounding ecosystems on the global atmospheric growth rate of methane since 2010. These emissions are driven by high rainfall over basin catchments linked with the positive phase of the Indian Ocean Dipole. We reconstruct flood inundation for the Sudd wetland over a 38-year period at a spatial resolution of 30 m using a new satellite Earth Observation (EO)…

  • Assumptions about prior fossil fuel inventories impact our ability to estimate posterior net CO 2 fluxes that are needed for verifying national inventories

    Open AccessTomohiro Oda, Liang Feng et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2023

    Monitoring national and global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is a critical component of the Paris Agreement, necessary to verify collective activities to reduce GHG emissions. Top-down approaches to infer GHG emission estimates from atmospheric data are widely recognized as a useful tool to independently verify emission inventories reported by individual countries under the United Nation Framework Convention on Climate Change. Conventional top-d…

  • Global Carbon Budget 2022

    Open AccessPierre Friedlingstein, Mike O’Sullivan et al.ARTICLEEarth System Science Data2022

    Accurate assessment of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions andtheir redistribution among the atmosphere, ocean, and terrestrial biospherein a changing climate is critical to better understand the global carboncycle, support the development of climate policies, and project futureclimate change. Here we describe and synthesize data sets and methodologies toquantify the five major components of the global carbon budget and theiruncertaintie…

  • Rain-fed pulses of methane from East Africa during 2018–2019 contributed to atmospheric growth rate

    Open AccessMark F Lunt, Paul I Palmer et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

    East Africa is a key location for wetland emissions of methane (CH 4 ), driven by variations in rainfall that are in turn influenced by sea-surface temperature gradients over the Indian Ocean. Using satellite observations of CH 4 and an atmospheric chemistry-transport model, we quantified East African CH 4 emissions during 2018 and 2019 when there was 3- σ anomalous rainfall during the long rains (March–May) in 2018 and the short rains (October–D…

  • Global Carbon Budget 2020

    Open AccessPierre Friedlingstein, Mike O’Sullivan et al.ARTICLEEarth System Science Data2020

    Accurate assessment of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions andtheir redistribution among the atmosphere, ocean, and terrestrial biospherein a changing climate – the “global carbon budget” – is important tobetter understand the global carbon cycle, support the development ofclimate policies, and project future climate change. Here we describe andsynthesize data sets and methodology to quantify the five major componentsof the global carbon…

  • Below-surface water mediates the response of African forests to reduced rainfall

    Open AccessNima Madani, John S Kimball et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2020

    Terrestrial ecosystem gross primary productivity (GPP) is the largest land-atmosphere carbon flux and the primary mechanism of photosynthetic fixation of atmospheric CO 2 into plant biomass. Anomalous rainfall events have been shown to have a great impact on the global carbon cycle. However, less is known about the impact of these events on GPP, especially in Africa, where in situ observations are sparse. Here, we use a suite of satellite and oth…

  • Climatology and atmospheric chemistry of the non-methane hydrocarbons ethane and propane over the North Atlantic

    Open AccessDetlev Helmig, Mauricio Muñoz et al.ARTICLEElementa Science of the…2015

    A record spanning ten years of non-methane hydrocarbon (NMHC) data from the Pico Mountain Observatory (PMO), Pico Island, Azores, Portugal, was analyzed for seasonal NMHC behavior, atmospheric processing, and trends, focusing on ethane and propane. The location of this site in the central North Atlantic, at an elevation of 2225 m asl, allows these data to be used to investigate the background conditions and pollution transport events occurring in…