Three decades of global methane sources and sinks

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 813-823

  Kirschke, Stefanie ^a   Bousquet, Philippe ^a   Ciais, Philippe ^a   Saunois, Marielle ^a   Canadell, Josep G ^b   Dlugokencky, Edward J ^c   Bergamaschi, Peter ^d   Bergmann, Daniel ^e   Blake, Donald R ^f   Bruhwiler, Lori ^c   Cameron Smith, Philip ^e   Castaldi, Simona ^g,h   Chevallier, Frédéric ^a   Feng, Liang ⁱ   Fraser, Annemarie ⁱ   Heimann, Martin ^j   Hodson, Elke L ^k   Houweling, Sander ^l,m   Josse, Béatrice ⁿ   Fraser, Paul J ^o   Krummel, Paul B ^o   Lamarque, Jean François ^p   Langenfelds, Ray L ^o   Le Quéré, Corinne ^q   Naik, Vaishali ^c   O'doherty, Simon ^r   Palmer, Paul I ⁱ   Pison, Isabelle ^a   Plummer, David ^s   Poulter, Benjamin ^a   Prinn, Ronald G ^t   Rigby, Matt ^r   Ringeval, Bruno ^m,u,v   Santini, Monia ^h   Schmidt, Martina ^a   Shindell, Drew T ^w   Simpson, Isobel J ^f   Spahni, Renato ^x   Steele, L Paul ^o   Strode, Sarah A ^y,z   Sudo, Kengo ^aa   Szopa, Sophie ^a   Van Der Werf, Guido R ^v   Voulgarakis, Apostolos ^w,ab   Van Weele, Michiel ^ac   Weiss, Ray F ^ad   Williams, Jason E ^ac   Zeng, Guang ^ae   more..

^a LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^e LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^h CENTRO EURO MEDITERRANEO SUI CAMBIAMENTI CLIMATICI   (Italy)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^j MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^k SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^l SRON NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SPACE RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^m UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

ⁿ CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^o Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

^p NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^q UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^r UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^s ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^t MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^u UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^v VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^w NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^x UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^y NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^z UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^aa NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^ab IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^ac ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^ad UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^ae NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC GAS; BIOGENIC EMISSION; CARBON BUDGET; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; EMISSION INVENTORY; FOSSIL FUEL; GREENHOUSE GAS; HYDROXYL RADICAL; METHANE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS; TROPOSPHERE; WARMING; WETLAND;

EID: 84885001722     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1955     Document Type: Review

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