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Three decades of global methane sources and sinks

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Kirschke, Stefanie, Bousquet, Philippe, Ciais, Philippe, Saunois, Marielle, Canadell, Josep G., Dlugokencky, Edward J., Bergamaschi, Peter, Bergmann, Daniel +40 more·2013·Nature Geoscience

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  • This methane emission rate is responsible for the high ambient methane mixing ratios observed over the northern Red Sea (average = 1.94 ± 0.03 ppm).

    “While this rate is only a small fraction of the global natural methane sources (238–484 Tg CH4 yr−1)51, it is responsible for the high ambient methane mixing ratios observed over the northern Red Sea (average = 1.94 ± 0.03 ppm).”
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Kirschke, S., Bousquet, P., Ciais, P., Saunois, M., Canadell, J. G., Dlugokencky, E. J., Bergamaschi, P., Bergmann, D., Blake, D. R., Bruhwiler, L., Cameron-Smith, P., Castaldi, S., Chevallier, F., Feng, L., Fraser, A., Heimann, M., Hodson, E. L., Houweling, S., Josse, B., Fraser, P. J., Krummel, P. B., Lamarque, J.-F., Langenfelds, R. L., Le Quéré, C., Naik, V., O'Doherty, S., Palmer, P. I., Pison, I., Plummer, D., Poulter, B., Prinn, R. G., Rigby, M., Ringeval, B., Santini, M., Schmidt, M., Shindell, D. T., Simpson, I. J., Spahni, R., Steele, L. P., Strode, S. A., Sudo, K., Szopa, S., van der Werf, G. R., Voulgarakis, A., van Weele, M., Weiss, R. F., Williams, J. E., & Zeng, G.
Affiliations
  • Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
  • CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere (AU)
  • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (US)
  • Joint Research Centre (IT)
  • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (US)
  • University of California, Irvine (US)
  • University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli" (IT)
  • University of Edinburgh (GB)
  • Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry (DE)
  • Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (CH)
  • Utrecht University (NL)
  • Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques (FR)
  • Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (AU)
  • NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research (US)
  • Environment and Climate Change Canada (CA)
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
  • CMCC Foundation - Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (IT)
  • Goddard Institute for Space Studies (US)
  • University of Bern (CH)
  • Goddard Space Flight Center (US)
  • Nagoya University (JP)
  • Scripps Institution of Oceanography (US)
  • Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (NL)
  • National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NZ)
Corresponding author
Bousquet, Philippe
Venue
Nature Geoscience
Published
2013-09-22
Volume
6
Issue
10
Pages
813-823
ISSN
  • 1752-0894 (ISSN-L)
  • 1752-0908
OpenAlex
W2058522703
Cited by
2,247
References
99
Citations by year
2026: 135 · 2025: 144 · 2024: 179 · 2023: 177 · 2022: 217 · 2021: 251 · 2020: 192 · 2019: 189 · 2018: 203 · 2017: 173 · 2016: 178 · 2015: 121 · 2014: 78 · 2013: 9
FWCI
90.20
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Nature Geoscience (publishedVersion)
  • VU Research Portal (publishedVersion)
  • UEA Digital Repository (University of East Anglia) (acceptedVersion)
  • HAL (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • BORIS (University Library Bern) (submittedVersion)
  • DORA WSL (Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research) (submittedVersion)
  • eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • Archivio Istituzionale della Ricerca - Università degli Studi della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli" (submittedVersion)
  • Joint Research Centre (European Commission) (submittedVersion)
  • MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion)
  • Explore Bristol Research (submittedVersion)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • U.S. Department of Energy (-AC02-05CH11231, DEAC5207NA27344, AC52‐07NA27344, 05CH11231, DE AC02 05CH11231, DE-AC02-)
  • National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (DE–AC02–05CH11231, 05CH11231, AC02-05CH11231)
  • European Commission (2007–2013, FP7 2007-2013, 247349, DE-AC02-05CH11231, FP7/2007, 283080, 218793)
  • Grand Équipement National De Calcul Intensif (2012-t2012012201)
  • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
  • Natural Environment Research Council (earth010004, FP7/2007-2013, DE-AC02-05CH11231, NE/I021365/1, 218793)
  • National Centre for Earth Observation (218793)
  • FP7 Ideas: European Research Council (247349)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Atmospheric Science › Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
Keywords
atmospheric methane, methane sources and sinks, methane budget, wetland methane emissions, greenhouse gas forcing, emission scenarios

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