Spatiotemporal variability of methane over the Amazon from satellite observations

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 852-864

  Ribeiro, Igor Oliveira ^a   de Souza, Rodrigo Augusto Ferreira ^b   Andreoli, Rita Valéria ^b   Kayano, Mary Toshie ^c   Costa, Patrícia dos Santos ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^b University of State of Amazonas   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amazon region; climate variability; methane; satellite data

Indexed keywords

EID: 84969543151     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-016-5138-7     Document Type: Article

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