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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-11135-2017
© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
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the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Research article
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20 Sep 2017
Research article |
| 20 Sep 2017
Variability and quasi-decadal changes in the methane budget over the period 2000–2012
Marielle Saunois
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE-IPSL
(CEA-CNRS-UVSQ), Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Philippe Bousquet
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE-IPSL
(CEA-CNRS-UVSQ), Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Ben Poulter
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Biospheric Sciences Laboratory,
Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
Anna Peregon
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE-IPSL
(CEA-CNRS-UVSQ), Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Philippe Ciais
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE-IPSL
(CEA-CNRS-UVSQ), Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Josep G. Canadell
Global Carbon Project, CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Canberra, ACT
2601, Australia
Edward J. Dlugokencky
NOAA ESRL, 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80305, USA
Giuseppe Etiope
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Sezione Roma 2, via V.
Murata 605, Roma 00143 , Italy
Faculty of Environmental Science and Engineering, Babes Bolyai
University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
David Bastviken
Department of Thematic Studies – Environmental Change, Linköping
University, 581 83 Linköping, Sweden
Sander Houweling
Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON), Sorbonnelaan 2, 3584
CA, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Sorbonnelaan 2, 3584 CA,
Utrecht, the Netherlands
Greet Janssens-Maenhout
European Commission Joint Research Centre, Ispra (Va), Italy
Francesco N. Tubiello
Statistics Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
Nations (FAO), Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, Rome 00153, Italy
Simona Castaldi
Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Ambientali Biologiche e Farmaceutiche,
Seconda Università di Napoli, via Vivaldi 43, 81100 Caserta, Italy
Far East Federal University (FEFU), Vladivostok, Russky Island,
Russia
Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, Via Augusto Imperatore
16, 73100 Lecce, Italy
Robert B. Jackson
School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences, Stanford
University, Stanford, CA 94305-2210, USA
Mihai Alexe
European Commission Joint Research Centre, Ispra (Va), Italy
Vivek K. Arora
Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis, Climate Research
Division, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Victoria, BC, V8W 2Y2,
Canada
David J. Beerling
Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield,
Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
Peter Bergamaschi
European Commission Joint Research Centre, Ispra (Va), Italy
Donald R. Blake
University of California Irvine, 570 Rowland Hall, Irvine, CA
92697, USA
Gordon Brailsford
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, 301 Evans Bay
Parade, Wellington, New Zealand
Lori Bruhwiler
NOAA ESRL, 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80305, USA
Cyril Crevoisier
Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, LMD/IPSL, CNRS École
polytechnique, Université Paris-Saclay, 91120 Palaiseau, France
Patrick Crill
Department of Geological Sciences and Bolin Centre for Climate
Research, Svante Arrhenius väg 8, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
Kristofer Covey
School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, New
Haven, CT 06511, USA
Christian Frankenberg
California Institute of Technology, Geological and Planetary
Sciences, Pasadena, CA, USA
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, M/S 183-601, 4800 Oak Grove Drive,
Pasadena, CA 91109, USA
Nicola Gedney
Met Office Hadley Centre, Joint Centre for Hydrometeorological
Research, Maclean Building, Wallingford OX10 8BB, UK
Lena Höglund-Isaksson
Air Quality and Greenhouse Gases program (AIR), International
Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), 2361 Laxenburg, Austria
Misa Ishizawa
Center for Global Environmental Research, National Institute for
Environmental Studies (NIES), Onogawa 16-2, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8506, Japan
Akihiko Ito
Center for Global Environmental Research, National Institute for
Environmental Studies (NIES), Onogawa 16-2, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8506, Japan
Fortunat Joos
Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute and Oeschger
Center for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Sidlerstr. 5,
3012 Bern, Switzerland
Heon-Sook Kim
Center for Global Environmental Research, National Institute for
Environmental Studies (NIES), Onogawa 16-2, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8506, Japan
Thomas Kleinen
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Bundesstrasse 53, 20146
Hamburg, Germany
Paul Krummel
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Aspendale, Victoria 3195, Australia
Jean-François Lamarque
NCAR, P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307-3000, USA
Ray Langenfelds
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Aspendale, Victoria 3195, Australia
Robin Locatelli
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE-IPSL
(CEA-CNRS-UVSQ), Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Toshinobu Machida
Center for Global Environmental Research, National Institute for
Environmental Studies (NIES), Onogawa 16-2, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8506, Japan
Shamil Maksyutov
Center for Global Environmental Research, National Institute for
Environmental Studies (NIES), Onogawa 16-2, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8506, Japan
Joe R. Melton
Climate Research Division, Environment and Climate Change Canada,
Victoria, BC, V8W 2Y2, Canada
Isamu Morino
Center for Global Environmental Research, National Institute for
Environmental Studies (NIES), Onogawa 16-2, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8506, Japan
Vaishali Naik
NOAA, GFDL, 201 Forrestal Rd., Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
Simon O'Doherty
School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Cantock's Close, Clifton,
Bristol BS8 1TS, UK
Frans-Jan W. Parmentier
Department of Arctic and Marine Biology, Faculty of Biosciences,
Fisheries and Economics, UiT: The Arctic University of Norway, 9037
Tromsø, Norway
Prabir K. Patra
Department of Environmental Geochemical Cycle Research and Institute
of Arctic Climate and Environment Research, JAMSTEC, 3173-25 Showa-machi,
Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, 236-0001, Japan
Changhui Peng
Department of Biological Sciences,
Institute of Environmental Sciences,
University of Quebec at Montreal, Montreal, QC H3C 3P8, Canada
State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess
Plateau, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China
Shushi Peng
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE-IPSL
(CEA-CNRS-UVSQ), Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Sino-French Institute for Earth System Science, College of Urban and
Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
Glen P. Peters
CICERO Center for International Climate Research, Pb. 1129 Blindern,
0318 Oslo, Norway
Isabelle Pison
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE-IPSL
(CEA-CNRS-UVSQ), Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Ronald Prinn
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Building 54-1312,
Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Michel Ramonet
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE-IPSL
(CEA-CNRS-UVSQ), Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
William J. Riley
Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division,
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, 1 Cyclotron
Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Makoto Saito
Center for Global Environmental Research, National Institute for
Environmental Studies (NIES), Onogawa 16-2, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8506, Japan
Monia Santini
Far East Federal University (FEFU), Vladivostok, Russky Island,
Russia
Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, Via Augusto Imperatore
16, 73100 Lecce, Italy
Ronny Schroeder
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of New
Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, USA
Isobel J. Simpson
University of California Irvine, 570 Rowland Hall, Irvine, CA
92697, USA
Renato Spahni
Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute and Oeschger
Center for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Sidlerstr. 5,
3012 Bern, Switzerland
Atsushi Takizawa
Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), 1-3-4 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
100-8122, Japan
Brett F. Thornton
Department of Geological Sciences and Bolin Centre for Climate
Research, Svante Arrhenius väg 8, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
Hanqin Tian
International Center for Climate and Global Change Research, School
of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn University, 602 Duncan Drive,
Auburn, AL 36849, USA
Yasunori Tohjima
Center for Global Environmental Research, National Institute for
Environmental Studies (NIES), Onogawa 16-2, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8506, Japan
Nicolas Viovy
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE-IPSL
(CEA-CNRS-UVSQ), Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Apostolos Voulgarakis
Space and Atmospheric Physics, Blackett Laboratory, Imperial
College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK
Ray Weiss
Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), University of California
San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
David J. Wilton
Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield,
Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
Andy Wiltshire
Met Office Hadley Centre, FitzRoy Road, Exeter, EX1 3PB, UK
Doug Worthy
Environment Canada, 4905, rue Dufferin, Toronto, Canada
Debra Wunch
Department of Physics, University of Toronto, 60 St. George Street,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division,
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, 1 Cyclotron
Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
CAS Key Laboratory of Regional Climate-Environment for Temperate East
Asia, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing
100029, China
Yukio Yoshida
Center for Global Environmental Research, National Institute for
Environmental Studies (NIES), Onogawa 16-2, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8506, Japan
Bowen Zhang
International Center for Climate and Global Change Research, School
of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn University, 602 Duncan Drive,
Auburn, AL 36849, USA
Zhen Zhang
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Biospheric Sciences Laboratory,
Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf 8059, Switzerland
Qiuan Zhu
State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess
Plateau, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China
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RC2: 'A timely, thorough, and thoughtful analysis of recent CH4 trends vis-a-vis trends and variability in emissions', Anonymous Referee #2, 02 Jun 2017
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Short summary
Following the Global Methane Budget 2000–2012 published in Saunois et al. (2016), we use the same dataset of bottom-up and top-down approaches to discuss the variations in methane emissions over the period 2000–2012. The changes in emissions are discussed both in terms of trends and quasi-decadal changes. The ensemble gathered here allows us to synthesise the robust changes in terms of regional and sectorial contributions to the increasing methane emissions.
Following the Global Methane Budget 2000–2012 published in Saunois et al. (2016), we use the...
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