Nitrous oxide is a potent greenhouse gas for which global emission estimates, driven largely by fertilizer input, are highly uncertain. An inversion approach based on atmospheric measurements yields global increases more than twice as high as the IPCC default.
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Makowski, D. N2O increasing faster than expected. Nat. Clim. Chang. 9, 909–910 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-019-0642-2
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