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Papers, Contributors and how to cite Global Methane Budget 2020

The primary reference for Global Methane Budget 2020 is:

The Global Methane Budget 2000-2017, by Marielle Saunois, Ann R. Stavert, Ben Poulter, Philippe Bousquet, Josep G. Canadell, Robert B. Jackson, Peter A. Raymond, Edward J. Dlugokencky, Sander Houweling, Prabir K. Patra, Philippe Ciais, Vivek K. Arora, David Bastviken, Peter Bergamaschi, Donald R. Blake, Gordon Brailsford, Lori Bruhwiler, Kimberly M. Carlson, Mark Carrol, Simona Castaldi, Naveen Chandra, Cyril Crevoisier, Patrick M. Crill, Kristofer Covey, Charles L. Curry, Giuseppe Etiope, Christian Frankenberg, Nicola Gedney, Michaela I. Hegglin, Lena Höglund-Isaksson, Gustaf Hugelius, Misa Ishizawa, Akihiko Ito, Greet Janssens-Maenhout, Katherine M. Jensen, Fortunat Joos, Thomas Kleinen, Paul B. Krummel, Ray L. Langenfelds, Goulven G. Laruelle, Licheng Liu, Toshinobu Machida, Shamil Maksyutov, Kyle C. McDonald, Joe McNorton, Paul A. Miller, Joe R. Melton, Isamu Morino, Jureck Müller, Fabiola Murguia-Flores, Vaishali Naik, Yosuke Niwa, Sergio Noce, Simon O'Doherty, Robert J. Parker, Changhui Peng, Shushi Peng, Glen P. Peters, Catherine Prigent, Ronald Prinn, Michel Ramonet, Pierre Regnier, William J. Riley, Judith A. Rosentreter, Arjo Segers, Isobel J. Simpson, Hao Shi, Steven J. Smith, L. Paul Steele, Brett F. Thornton, Hanqin Tian, Yasunori Tohjima, Francesco N. Tubiello, Aki Tsuruta, Nicolas Viovy, Apostolos Voulgarakis, Thomas S. Weber, Michiel van Weele, Guido R. van der Werf, Ray F. Weiss, Doug Worthy, Debra Wunch, Yi Yin, Yukio Yoshida, Wenxin Zhang, Zhen Zhang, Yuanhong Zhao, Bo Zheng, Qing Zhu, Qiuan Zhu, Qianlai Zhuang (2020), Earth System Science Data, 12, 1-63, 2020, DOI:10.5194/essd-12-1561-2020

Contact lead author: Marielle Saunois

Otherwise please refer as: The Global Methane Budget 2000-2017 (2020).
[www.globalcarbonproject.org/methanebudget] released on 15 July 2020, along with the original peer-reviewed papers as appropriate.

Additional Analyses for Methane Budget 2020:

Increasing anthropogenic methane emissions arise equally from agricultural and fossil fuel sources, by RB Jackson, M Saunois, P Bousquet, JG Canadell, B Poulter, AR Stavert, P Bergamaschi, Y Niwa, A Segers, and A Tsuruta (2020), Environmental Research Letters, vol. 15, 071002, DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ab9ed2.

Contributors to Global Methane Budget 2020

  • Marielle Saunois (Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE-IPSL (CEA-CNRS-UVSQ), Université Paris-Saclay 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France)
  • Ann R. Stavert (Global Carbon Project, CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Aspendale, VIC 3195, and Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia)
  • Ben Poulter (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Biospheric Science Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA)
  • Philippe Bousquet (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, Aspendale, VIC 3195, and Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia)
  • Robert B. Jackson (Department of Earth System Science, Woods Institute for the Environment, and Precourt Institute for Energy, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-2210, USA)
  • Peter A. Raymond (School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA)
  • Edward J. Dlugokencky (NOAA ESRL, 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80305, USA)
  • Sander Houweling ()
  • Prabir K. Patra (Research Institute for Global Change, JAMSTEC, 3173-25 Showa-machi, Kanazawa, Yokohama, 236-0001, Japan and Center for Environmental Remote Sensing, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan)
  • Philippe Ciais (Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE-IPSL (CEA-CNRS-UVSQ), Université Paris-Saclay 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France)
  • Vivek K. Arora (Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis, Climate Research Division, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Victoria, BC, V8W 2Y2, Canada)
  • David Bastviken (Department of Thematic Studies – Environmental Change, Linköping University, 581 83 Linköping, Sweden)
  • Peter Bergamaschi (European Commission Joint Research Centre, Via E. Fermi 2749, 21027 Ispra (Va), Italy)
  • Donald R. Blake (Department of Chemistry, 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)
  • Kimberly M. Carlson (Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota 55108, USA and Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management, University of Hawai'i, Honolulu, Hawai'i 96822, USA)
  • Mark Carrol (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Biospheric Science Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA)
  • Simona Castaldi (Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Biologiche e Farmaceutiche, Universitŕ degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, via Vivaldi 43, 81100 Caserta, Italy and Department of Landscape Design and Sustainable Ecosystems, RUDN University, Moscow, Russia and Impacts on Agriculture, Forests, and Ecosystem Services Division, Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici, Via Augusto Imperatore 16, 73100 Lecce, Italy)
  • Naveen Chandra (Research Institute for Global Change, JAMSTEC, 3173-25 Showa-machi, Kanazawa, Yokohama, 236-0001, Japan)
  • Cyril Crevoisier (Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, LMD-IPSL, Ecole Polytechnique, 91120 Palaiseau, France)
  • Patrick M. Crill (Department of Geological Sciences and Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Svante Arrhenius väg 8, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden)
  • Kristofer Covey (Program in Environmental Studies and Sciences, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866, USA)
  • Charles L. Curry (School of Earth and Ocean Sciences,University of Victoria, P.O. Box 1700 STN CSC, Victoria, BC, Canada V8W 2Y2)
  • Giuseppe Etiope (Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Sezione Roma 2, via V. Murata 605 00143 Rome, Italy and Faculty of Environmental Science and Engineering, Babes Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
  • Christian Frankenberg (Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States and Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA)
  • Nicola Gedney (Met Office Hadley Centre, Joint Centre for Hydrometeorological Research, Maclean Building, Wallingford OX10 8BB, UK)
  • Michaela I. Hegglin (Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Earley Gate, Reading RG6 6BB, United Kingdom)
  • Lena Höglund-Isaksson (Air Quality and Greenhouse Gases Program (AIR), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), 2361 Laxenburg, Austria)
  • Gustaf Hugelius (Department of Physical Geography and Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden)
  • 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)
  • Greet Janssens-Maenhout (European Commission Joint Research Centre, Via E. Fermi 2749, 21027 Ispra (Va), Italy)
  • Katherine M. Jensen (Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, City College of New York, City University of New York, New York, NY 10031, USA)
  • Fortunat Joos (Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute and Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Sidlerstr. 5, 3012 Bern, Switzerland)
  • Thomas Kleinen (Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Bundesstraße 53, 20146 Hamburg, Germany)
  • Paul B. Krummel (Climate Science Centre, CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Aspendale, Victoria 3195, Australia)
  • Ray L. Langenfelds (Climate Science Centre, CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Aspendale, Victoria 3195, Australia)
  • Goulven G. Laruelle (Department Geoscience, Environment & Society, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 1050-Brussels, Belgium)
  • Licheng Liu (Department of Earth, Atmospheric, Planetary Sciences, Department of Agronomy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA)
  • 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)
  • Kyle C. McDonald (Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, City College of New York, City University of New York, New York, NY 10031, USA)
  • Joe McNorton (Research Department, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, UK)
  • Paul A. Miller (Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University, Sölvegatan 12, 223 62, Lund, Sweden)
  • 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)
  • Jureck Müller (Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute and Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Sidlerstr. 5, 3012 Bern, Switzerland)
  • Fabiola Murguia-Flores (School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1SS, UK)
  • Vaishali Naik (NOAA/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL), 201 Forrestal Rd., Princeton, NJ 08540, USA)
  • Yosuke Niwa (Center for Global Environmental Research, National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Onogawa 16-2, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8506, Japan and Meteorological Research Institute (MRI), Nagamine 1-1, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0052, Japan)
  • Sergio Noce (Impacts on Agriculture, Forests, and Ecosystem Services Division, Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici, Via Augusto Imperatore 16, 73100 Lecce, Italy)
  • Simon O'Doherty (School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Cantock's Close, Clifton, Bristol BS8 1TS, UK)
  • Robert J. Parker (National Centre for Earth Observation, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK)
  • Changhui Peng (Department of Biology Sciences, Institute of Environment Science, University of Quebec at Montreal, Montreal, QC H3C 3P8, Canada)
  • Shushi Peng (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)
  • Catherine Prigent (CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Observatoire de Paris, Université PSL, Lerma, Paris, France)
  • Ronald Prinn (Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, 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)
  • Pierre Regnier (Department Geoscience, Environment & Society, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 1050-Brussels, Belgium)
  • William J. Riley (Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA)
  • Judith A. Rosentreter (Centre for Coastal Biogeochemistry, School of Environment, Science and Engineering, Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW 2480, Australia)
  • Arjo Segers (TNO, dep. of Climate Air & Sustainability, P.O. Box 80015, 3508-TA, Utrecht,The Netherlands)
  • Isobel J. Simpson (Department of Chemistry, University of California Irvine, 570 Rowland Hall, Irvine, CA 92697, USA)
  • Hao Shi (International Center for Climate and Global Change Research, School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn University, 602 Duncan Drive, Auburn, AL 36849, USA)
  • Steven J. Smith (Joint Global Change Research Institute, Pacific Northwest National Lab, College Park, MD, USA and Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA)
  • L. Paul Steele (Climate Science Centre, CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Aspendale, Victoria 3195, Australia)
  • 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)
  • Francesco N. Tubiello (Statistics Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, Rome 00153, Italy)
  • Aki Tsuruta (Finnish Meteorological Institute, P.O. Box 503, 00101, Helsinki, Finland)
  • 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 (Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK)
  • Thomas S. Weber (Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA)
  • Michiel van Weele (KNMI, P.O. Box 201, 3730 AE, De Bilt, the Netherlands)
  • Guido R. van der Werf (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Department of Earth Sciences, Earth and Climate Cluster, VU Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
  • Ray F. Weiss (Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA)
  • Doug Worthy (Environnement Canada, 4905, rue Dufferin, Toronto, Canada)
  • Debra Wunch (Department of Physics, University of Toronto, 60 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
  • Yi Yin (Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE-IPSL (CEA-CNRS-UVSQ), Université Paris-Saclay 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France and Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States)
  • Yukio Yoshida (Center for Global Environmental Research, National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Onogawa 16-2, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8506, Japan)
  • Wenxin Zhang (Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University, Sölvegatan 12, 223 62, Lund, Sweden)
  • Zhen Zhang (Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, USA)
  • Yuanhong Zhao (Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE-IPSL (CEA-CNRS-UVSQ), Université Paris-Saclay 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France)
  • Bo Zheng (Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE-IPSL (CEA-CNRS-UVSQ), Université Paris-Saclay 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France)
  • Qing Zhu (Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA)
  • Qiuan Zhu (College of Hydrology and Water Resources, Hohai University, Nanjing, 210098, China)
  • Qianlai Zhuang (Department of Earth, Atmospheric, Planetary Sciences, Department of Agronomy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA)