Supplemental data to Global Methane Budget 2000-2017

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Global Methane Budget 2000-2017

The Global Carbon Project (GCP) publishes an up-date of the global methane (CH4) sources and sinks to the atmosphere. This budget show that global methane emissions have increased by 9 % (about 50 Million tons) between 2000-2006 and 2017. Anthropogenic emissions appear to be the main contributors to this increase, with equal shares between fossil fuel sector and agriculture and waste sector.

The study was conducted by an international research team and led by the Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement (LSCE, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ) in France, under the umbrella of the Global Carbon Project that initiated the work. Two articles are published on July 15th in the journals Environmental Research Letters and Earth System Science Data.

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article doi: 10.5194/essd -12-1561-2020

data doi: 10.18160/gcp-ch4-2019 (this page)

Citation: Saunois, M., Stavert, A. R., Poulter, B., Bousquet, P., Canadell, J. G., Jackson, R. B., Raymond, P. A., Dlugokencky, E. J., Houweling, S., Patra, P. K., Ciais, P., Arora, V. K., Bastviken, D., Bergamaschi, P., Blake, D. R., Brailsford, G., Bruhwiler, L., Carlson, K. M., Carrol, M., … Zhuang, Q. (2020). Supplemental data of the Global Carbon Project Methane Budget 2019 (Version 2.0) [Data set]. Global Carbon Project. https://doi.org/10.18160/GCP-CH4-2019 

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The use of data is conditional on citing the original data sources. Full details on how to cite the individual data are given at the top of each spreadsheet page. In order to facilitate comparison at regional scale, the region mask is provided on a 1°x1° grid as Netcdf files. For research projects, if the data are essential to the work, or if an important result or conclusion depends on the data, co-authorship may need to be considered. The Global Carbon Project – Methane facilitates access to data to encourage its use and promote a good understanding of the methane cycle. Respecting original data sources is key to help secure the support of data providers to enhance, maintain and update valuable data.

Further information available on http://www.globalcarbonproject.org/methanebudget/.

Global Methane Budget for the 2008-2017 decades.
Global Methane Budget for the 2008-2017 decades. Both bottom-up (left) and top-down (right) estimates are provided for each emission and sink category in Tg CH4 yr-1, as well as for total emissions and total sinks.
Global anthropogenic methane emissions (including biomass burning) from historical inventories and future projections
Global anthropogenic methane emissions (including biomass burning) from historical inventories and future projections (in Tg CH4 yr-1).

Previous Budgets

Global methane Budget 2000-2012

Global methane Budget 2000-2012 at CDIAC

References

Global Methane Budget 2000-2017

Marielle Saunois1, Ann R. Stavert2, Ben Poulter3, Philippe Bousquet1, Josep G. Canadell2, Robert B. Jackson4, Peter A. Raymond5, Edward J. Dlugokencky6, Sander Houweling7,8, Prabir K. Patra9,10, Philippe Ciais1, Vivek K. Arora11, David Bastviken12, Peter Bergamaschi13, Donald R. Blake14, Gordon Brailsford15, Lori Bruhwiler6, Kimberly M. Carlson16,17, Mark Carrol3, Simona Castaldi18,19,20, Naveen Chandra9, Cyril Crevoisier21, Patrick M. Crill22, Kristofer Covey23, Charles L. Curry24, Giuseppe Etiope25,26, Christian Frankenberg27,28, Nicola Gedney29, Michaela I. Hegglin30, Lena Höglund-Isaksson31, Gustaf Hugelius32, Misa Ishizawa33, Akihiko Ito33, Greet Janssens-Maenhout13, Katherine M. Jensen34, Fortunat Joos35,Thomas Kleinen36, Paul B. Krummel37, Ray L. Langenfelds37, Goulven G. Laruelle38, Licheng Liu39, Toshinobu Machida33, Shamil Maksyutov33, Kyle C. McDonald34, Joe McNorton40, Paul A. Miller41, Joe R. Melton42, Isamu Morino33, Jurek Müller35, Fabiola Murguia-Flores43, Vaishali Naik44, Yosuke Niwa33,45, Sergio Noce20, Simon O’Doherty46, Robert J. Parker47, Changhui Peng48, Shushi Peng49, Glen P. Peters50, Catherine Prigent51, Ronald Prinn52, Michel Ramonet1, Pierre Regnier38, William J. Riley53, Judith A. Rosentreter54, Arjo Segers55, Isobel J. Simpson14, Hao Shi56, Steven J. Smith57,58, Paul L. Steele37, Brett F. Thornton22, Hanqin Tian56, Yasunori Tohjima33, Francesco N. Tubiello59, Aki Tsuruta60 Nicolas Viovy1, Apostolos Voulgarakis61, Thomas S. Weber62, Michiel van Weele63, Guido R. van der Werf8, Ray F. Weiss64, Doug Worthy65, Debra Wunch66, Yi Yin1,27, Yukio Yoshida33, Wenxin Zhang41, Zhen Zhang67, Yuanghong Zhao1, Bo Zheng1, Qing Zhu53, Qiuan Zhu68, and Qianlai Zhuang39, The Global Methane Budget 2000-2017, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 12, 1561–1623, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-1561-2020, 2020

  1. Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement, LSCE-IPSL (CEA-CNRS-UVSQ), Université Paris-Saclay 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
  2. Global Carbon Project, CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Aspendale, VIC 3195, and Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
  3. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Biospheric Science Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
  4. Department of Earth System Science, Woods Institute for the Environment, and Precourt Institute for Energy, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-2210, USA
  5. School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA.
  6. NOAA ESRL, 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80305, USA
  7. SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research, Sorbonnelaan 2, 3584 CA Utrecht, the Netherlands
  8. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Department of Earth Sciences, Earth and Climate Cluster, VU Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
  9. Research Institute for Global Change, JAMSTEC, 3173-25 Showa-machi, Kanazawa, Yokohama, 236-0001, Japan
  10. Center for Environmental Remote Sensing, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan
  11. Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis, Climate Research Division, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Victoria, BC, V8W 2Y2, Canada
  12. Department of Thematic Studies – Environmental Change, Linköping University, 581 83 Linköping, Sweden
  13. European Commission Joint Research Centre, Via E. Fermi 2749, 21027 Ispra (Va), Italy
  14. Department of Chemistry, University of California Irvine, 570 Rowland Hall, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
  15. National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, 301 Evans Bay Parade, Wellington, New Zealand
  16. Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota 55108, USA
  17. Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management, University of Hawai’i, Honolulu, Hawai’i 96822, USA.
  18. Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Biologiche e Farmaceutiche, Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, via Vivaldi 43, 81100 Caserta, Italy
  19. Department of Landscape Design and Sustainable Ecosystems, RUDN University, Moscow, Russia
  20. Impacts on Agriculture,Forests, and Ecosystem Services Division, Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici, Via Augusto Imperatore 16, 73100 Lecce, Italy
  21. Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, LMD-IPSL, Ecole Polytechnique, 91120 Palaiseau, France
  22. Department of Geological Sciences and Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Svante Arrhenius väg 8, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
  23. Program in Environmental Studies and Sciences, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866, USA
  24. School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria, P.O. Box 1700 STN CSC, Victoria, BC, Canada V8W 2Y2
  25. Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Sezione Roma 2, via V. Murata 605 00143 Rome, Italy
  26. Faculty of Environmental Science and Engineering, Babes Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
  27. Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
  28. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
  29. Met Office Hadley Centre, Joint Centre for Hydrometeorological Research, Maclean Building, Wallingford OX10 8BB, UK
  30. Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Earley Gate, Reading RG6 6BB, United Kingdom
  31. Air Quality and Greenhouse Gases Program (AIR), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), 2361 Laxenburg, Austria
  32. Department of Physical Geography and Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
  33. Center for Global Environmental Research, National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Onogawa 16-2, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8506, Japan
  34. Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, City College of New York, City University of New York, New York, NY 10031, USA
  35. Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute and Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Sidlerstr. 5, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
  36. Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Bundesstraße 53, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
  37. Climate Science Centre, CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Aspendale, Victoria 3195, Australia
  38. Department Geoscience, Environment & Society, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 1050-Brussels, Belgium
  39. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, Planetary Sciences, Department of Agronomy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
  40. Research Department, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, UK
  41. Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University, Sölvegatan 12, 223 62, Lund, Sweden
  42. Climate Research Division, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Victoria, BC, V8W 2Y2, Canada
  43. School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1SS, UK
  44. NOAA/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL), 201 Forrestal Rd., Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
  45. Meteorological Research Institute (MRI), Nagamine 1-1, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0052, Japan
  46. School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Cantock’s Close, Clifton, Bristol BS8 1TS, UK
  47. National Centre for Earth Observation, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
  48. Department of Biology Sciences, Institute of Environment Science, University of Quebec at Montreal, Montreal, QC H3C 3P8, Canada
  49. Sino-French Institute for Earth System Science, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
  50. CICERO Center for International Climate Research, Pb. 1129 Blindern, 0318 Oslo, Norway
  51. CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Observatoire de Paris, Université PSL, Lerma, Paris, France
  52. Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Building 54-1312, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
  53. Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, US
  54. Centre for Coastal Biogeochemistry, School of Environment, Science and Engineering, Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW 2480, Australia
  55. TNO, dep. of Climate Air & Sustainability, P.O. Box 80015, NL-3508-TA, Utrecht,The Netherlands
  56. International Center for Climate and Global Change Research, School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn University, 602 Duncan Drive, Auburn, AL 36849, USA
  57. Joint Global Change Research Institute, Pacific Northwest National Lab, College Park, MD, USA
  58. Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
  59. Statistics Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, Rome 00153, Italy
  60. Finnish Meteorological Institute, P.O. Box 503, FI-00101, Helsinki, Finland
  61. Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK
  62. Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA
  63. KNMI, P.O. Box 201, 3730 AE, De Bilt, the Netherlands
  64. Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
  65. Environnement Canada, 4905, rue Dufferin, Toronto, Canada 66Department of Physics, University of Toronto, 60 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  66. Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, United States of America
  67. College of Hydrology and Water Resources, Hohai University, Nanjing, 210098, China

 

Jackson et al. (2020). Increasing anthropogenic methane emissions arise equally from agricultural and fossil fuel sources. Environmental Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab9ed2

Global Methane Budget 2000-2012

Marielle Saunois, Philippe Bousquet, Ben Poulter, Anna Peregon, Philippe Ciais, Josep G. Canadell, Edward J. Dlugokencky, Giuseppe Etiope, David Bastviken, Sander Houweling, Greet Janssens-Maenhout, Francesco N. Tubiello, Simona Castaldi, Robert B. Jackson, Mihai Alexe, Vivek K. Arora, David J. Beerling, Peter Bergamaschi, Donald R. Blake, Gordon Brailsford, Victor Brovkin, Lori Bruhwiler, Cyril Crevoisier, Patrick Crill, Kristofer Covey, Charles Curry, Christian Frankenberg, Nicola Gedney, Lena Höglund-Isaksson, Misa Ishizawa, Akihiko Ito, Fortunat Joos, Heon-Sook Kim, Thomas Kleinen, Paul Krummel, Jean-François Lamarque, Ray Langenfelds, Robin Locatelli, Toshinobu Machida, Shamil Maksyutov, Kyle C. McDonald, Julia Marshall, Joe R. Melton, Isamu Morino, Vaishali Naik, Simon O’Doherty, Frans-Jan W. Parmentier, Prabir K. Patra, Changhui Peng, Shushi Peng, Glen P. Peters, Isabelle Pison, Catherine Prigent, Ronald Prinn, Michel Ramonet, William J. Riley, Makoto Saito, Monia Santini, Ronny Schroeder, Isobel J. Simpson, Renato Spahni, Paul Steele, Atsushi Takizawa, Brett F. Thornton, Hanqin Tian, Yasunori Tohjima, Nicolas Viovy, Apostolos Voulgarakis, Michiel van Weele, Guido van der Werf, Ray Weiss, Christine Wiedinmyer, David J. Wilton, Andy Wiltshire, Doug Worthy, Debra Wunch, Xiyan Xu, Yukio Yoshida, Bowen Zhang, Zhen Zhang, and Qiuan Zhu. 2016. The Global Methane Budget 2000-2012, Earth System Science Data, 8:697-751, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-8-697-2016. Download

Global Methane Budget 1980-2009

Kirschke S., Bousquet P., Ciais P., Saunois M. , Canadell J.G., Dlugokencky E.J., Bergamaschi P., Bergmann D., Blake D.R., Bruhwiler L., Cameron-Smith P., Castaldi S., Chevallier F., Feng L., Fraser A., Heimann M., Hodson E.L., Houweling S., Josse B., Fraser P.J., Krummel P.B., Lamarque J.F., Langenfelds R.L., Le Quéré C., Naik V., O’Doherty S., Palmer P.I., Pison I., Plummer D., Poulter B., Prinn R.G., Rigby M., Ringeval B., Santini M., Schmidt M., Shindell D.T., Simpson I.J., Spahni R., Steele L.P., Strode S.A., Sudo K., Szopa S., Van derWerf G.R., Voulgarakis A., Van Weele M., Weiss R.F., Williams J.E., and G. Zeng. 2013. Three decades of global methane sources and sinks. Nature Geosciences, 6:813-823, https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1955. Download

 

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