Variability and quasi-decadal changes in the methane budget over the period 2000-2012

Following the recent Global Carbon Project (GCP) synthesis of the decadal methane (CH4) budget over 2000-2012 (Saunois et al., 2016), we analyse here the same dataset with a focus on quasi-decadal and inter-annual variability in CH4 emissions. The GCP dataset integrates results from top-down studies (exploiting atmospheric observations within an atmospheric inverse-modelling framework) and bottom-up models (including process-based models for estimating land surface emissions and atmospheric chemistry), inventories of anthropogenic emissions, and data-driven approaches.

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Author Saunois, Marielle
Bousquet, Philippe
Poulter, Ben
Peregon, Anna
Ciais, Philippe
Canadell, Josep G.
Dlugokencky, Edward J.
Etiope, Giuseppe
Bastviken, David
Houweling, Sander
Janssens-Maenhout, Greet
Tubiello, Francesco N.
Castaldi, Simona
Jackson, Robert B.
Alexe, Mihai
Arora, Vivek K.
Beerling, David J.
Bergamaschi, Peter
Blake, Donald R.
Brailsford, Gordon
Bruhwiler, Lori
Crevoisier, Cyril
Crill, Patrick
Covey, Kristofer
Frankenberg, Christian
Gedney, Nicola
Höglund-Isaksson, Lena
Ishizawa, Misa
Ito, Akihiko
Joos, Fortunat
Kim, Heon-Sook
Kleinen, Thomas
Krummel, Paul
Lamarque, Jean-François
Langenfelds, Ray
Locatelli, Robin
Machida, Toshinobu
Maksyutov, Shamil
Melton, Joe R.
Morino, Isamu
Naik, Vaishali
O'Doherty, Simon
Parmentier, Frans-Jan W.
Patra, Prabir K.
Peng, Changhui
Peng, Shushi
Peters, Glen P.
Pison, Isabelle
Prinn, Ronald
Ramonet, Michel
Riley, William J.
Saito, Makoto
Santini, Monia
Schroeder, Ronny
Simpson, Isobel J.
Spahni, Renato
Takizawa, Atsushi
Thornton, Brett F.
Tian, Hanqin
Tohjima, Yasunori
Viovy, Nicolas
Voulgarakis, Apostolos
Weiss, Ray
Wilton, David J.
Wiltshire, Andy
Worthy, Doug
Wunch, Debra
Xu, Xiyan
Yoshida, Yukio
Zhang, Bowen
Zhang, Zhen
Zhu, Qiuan
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Publication Date 2017-09-20T00:00:00
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Suggested Citation Saunois, Marielle, Bousquet, Philippe, Poulter, Ben, Peregon, Anna, Ciais, Philippe, Canadell, Josep G., Dlugokencky, Edward J., Etiope, Giuseppe, Bastviken, David, Houweling, Sander, Janssens-Maenhout, Greet, Tubiello, Francesco N., Castaldi, Simona, Jackson, Robert B., Alexe, Mihai, Arora, Vivek K., Beerling, David J., Bergamaschi, Peter, Blake, Donald R., Brailsford, Gordon, Bruhwiler, Lori, Crevoisier, Cyril, Crill, Patrick, Covey, Kristofer, Frankenberg, Christian, Gedney, Nicola, Höglund-Isaksson, Lena, Ishizawa, Misa, Ito, Akihiko, Joos, Fortunat, Kim, Heon-Sook, Kleinen, Thomas, Krummel, Paul, Lamarque, Jean-François, Langenfelds, Ray, Locatelli, Robin, Machida, Toshinobu, Maksyutov, Shamil, Melton, Joe R., Morino, Isamu, Naik, Vaishali, O'Doherty, Simon, Parmentier, Frans-Jan W., Patra, Prabir K., Peng, Changhui, Peng, Shushi, Peters, Glen P., Pison, Isabelle, Prinn, Ronald, Ramonet, Michel, Riley, William J., Saito, Makoto, Santini, Monia, Schroeder, Ronny, Simpson, Isobel J., Spahni, Renato, Takizawa, Atsushi, Thornton, Brett F., Tian, Hanqin, Tohjima, Yasunori, Viovy, Nicolas, Voulgarakis, Apostolos, Weiss, Ray, Wilton, David J., Wiltshire, Andy, Worthy, Doug, Wunch, Debra, Xu, Xiyan, Yoshida, Yukio, Zhang, Bowen, Zhang, Zhen, Zhu, Qiuan. (2017). Variability and quasi-decadal changes in the methane budget over the period 2000-2012. UCAR/NCAR - Library. http://n2t.net/ark:/85065/d7377c7t. Accessed 01 February 2025.

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