Volume 91, Issue D2 p. 2843-2843
Brief Reports

On the consequence of a tropospheric CH4 increase to the exospheric density

First published: 20 February 1986
Citations: 26

Abstract

It is argued that the past increase in tropospheric CH4 of about 1 ppm should have caused an increase in the exospheric H atom concentration by about 30%, with a corresponding increase in the total density in the hydrogen-dominated part of the exosphere.