Nature Communications (Mar 2022)

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

  • Liang Feng,
  • Paul I. Palmer,
  • Sihong Zhu,
  • Robert J. Parker,
  • Yi Liu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28989-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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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.