Enhanced Methane Emissions during Amazonian Drought by Biomass Burning.

The Amazon is a significant source of atmospheric methane, but little is known about the source response to increasing drought severity and frequency. We investigated satellite observations of atmospheric column-averaged methane for the 2010 drought and subsequent 2011 wet year in the Amazon using a...

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Main Authors: Makoto Saito, Heon-Sook Kim, Akihiko Ito, Tatsuya Yokota, Shamil Maksyutov
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5113007?pdf=render