Tropical methane emissions explain large fraction of recent changes in global atmospheric methane growth rate

Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas with emissions that are challenging to constrain. Here the authors use 10 years of satellite observations and show tropical terrestrial emissions account for 80% of observed global methane increases.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Liang Feng, Paul I. Palmer, Sihong Zhu, Robert J. Parker, Yi Liu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-03-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28989-z