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Articles | Volume 21, issue 16
Articles | Volume 21, issue 16
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-12631-2021
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-12631-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 21, issue 16
Research article
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25 Aug 2021
Research article |  | 25 Aug 2021

Accelerating methane growth rate from 2010 to 2017: leading contributions from the tropics and East Asia

Yi Yin, Frederic Chevallier, Philippe Ciais, Philippe Bousquet, Marielle Saunois, Bo Zheng, John Worden, A. Anthony Bloom, Robert J. Parker, Daniel J. Jacob, Edward J. Dlugokencky, and Christian Frankenberg

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The growth of methane, the second-most important anthropogenic greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide, has been accelerating in recent years. Using an ensemble of multi-tracer atmospheric inversions constrained by surface or satellite observations, we show that global methane emissions increased by nearly 1 % per year from 2010–2017, with leading contributions from the tropics and East Asia.
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