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From ppb.

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  • I checked, by eye, for an negative methane spike remotely similar to that of Younger Dryas, about -180 ppbv.

    RealClimate 2009

  • The 8.2 kya event shows up with around -20 ppbv and no earlier excursions appear to be more than +-70 ppbv per sampling interval.

    RealClimate 2009

  • A concentration of 1 ppbv means that for every billion molecules of gas in the measured volume, one of them is a carbon monoxide molecule.

    NASA Earth Observatory 2009

  • Concentrations of carbon monoxide are expressed in parts per billion by volume (ppbv).

    NASA Earth Observatory 2009

  • I checked, by eye, for an negative methane spike remotely similar to that of Younger Dryas, about -180 ppbv.

    RealClimate 2009

  • The atmospheric concentration of CH4 has increased from 700 parts per billion by volume (ppbv) to 1,720 ppbv, and is increasing at the rate of 10 ppbv / yr (0.6 percent / yr).

    unknown title 2009

  • The 8.2 kya event shows up with around -20 ppbv and no earlier excursions appear to be more than +-70 ppbv per sampling interval.

    RealClimate 2009

  • For comparison, they also ran the models with a chlorine level of 3.5 ppbv, which was the level in the stratosphere by the late 1990s. ...

    GREENIE WATCH 2008

  • For comparison, they also ran the models with a chlorine level of 3.5 ppbv, which was the level in the stratosphere by the late 1990s. ...

    Latest Articles 2008

  • Similarly, the concentration of N2O has increased from 275 ppbv to 312 ppbv and is increasing at the rate of about 0.8 ppbv / yr (0.25 percent / yr) (Bruce, Lee, and Haites

    unknown title 2009

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