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Papers, Contributors and how to cite Global Methane Budget 2024

The primary reference for Global Methane Budget 2024 (pre-print) is:

The Global Methane Budget 2000-2020, by Marielle Saunois, Adrien Martinez, Benjamin Poulter, Zhen Zhang, Peter A. Raymond, Pierre Regnier, Josep G. Canadell, Robert B. Jackson, Prabir K. Patra, Philippe Bousquet, Philippe Ciais, Edward J. Dlugokencky, Xin Lan, George H. Allen, David Bastviken, David J. Beerling, Dmitry A. Belikov, Donald R. Blake, Simona Castaldi, Monica Crippa, Bridget R. Deemer, Fraser Dennison, Giuseppe Etiope, Nicola Gedney, Lena Höglund-Isaksson, Meredith A. Holgerson, Peter O. Hopcroft, Gustaf Hugelius, Akihiko Ito, Atul K. Jain, Rajesh Janardanan, Matthew S. Johnson, Thomas Kleinen, Paul B. Krummel, Ronny Lauerwald, Tingting Li, Xiangyu Liu, Kyle C. McDonald, Joe R. Melton, Jens Mühle, Jurek Müller, Fabiola Murguia-Flores, Yosuke Niwa, Sergio Noce, Shufen Pan, Robert J. Parker, Changhui Peng, Michel Ramonet, William J. Riley, Gerard Rocher-Ros, Judith A. Rosentreter, Motoki Sasakawa, Arjo Segers, Steven J. Smith, Emily H. Stanley, Joël Thanwerdas, Hanqin Tian, Aki Tsuruta, Francesco N. Tubiello, Thomas S. Weber, Guido R. van der Werf, Douglas E. J. Worthy, Yi Xi, Yukio Yoshida, Wenxin Zhang, Bo Zheng, Qing Zhu, Qiuan Zhu and Qianlai Zhuang (2024), Earth System Science Data (pre-print), 2024, DOI:10.5194/essd-2024-115

Contact lead author: Marielle Saunois

Otherwise please refer as: The Global Methane Budget 2000-2020 (2024).
[www.globalcarbonproject.org/methanebudget] released on 10 September 2024, along with the original papers as appropriate.

Additional Analyses for Methane Budget 2024:

Human activities now fuel two-thirds of global methane emissions, by Jackson RB, M Saunois, A Martinez, JG Canadell, X Yu, M Li, B Poulter, PA Raymond, P Regnier, P Ciais, SJ Davis and PK Patra (2024), Environmental Research Letters, vol. 19, 101002, DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ad6463.

Contributors to Global Methane Budget 2024

  • Marielle Saunois (Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE-IPSL (CEA-CNRS-UVSQ), Université Paris-Saclay 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France)
  • Adrien Martinez (Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE-IPSL (CEA-CNRS-UVSQ), Université Paris-Saclay 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France)
  • Benjamin Poulter (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Biospheric Science Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA)
  • Zhen Zhang (National Tibetan Plateau Data Center (TPDC), State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System, Environment and Resource (TPESER), Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China and Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20740, USA)
  • Peter A. Raymond (Yale School of the Environment, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA)
  • Pierre Regnier (Department Geoscience, Environment & Society (BGEOSYS), Université Libre de Bruxelles, 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium)
  • Josep G. Canadell (Global Carbon Project, CSIRO Environment, 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)
  • Prabir K. Patra (Research Institute for Global Change, JAMSTEC, 3173-25 Showa-machi, Kanazawa, Yokohama, 236- 0001, Japan and Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto 6038047, Japan)
  • Philippe Bousquet (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)
  • Edward J. Dlugokencky (NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory, 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80305, USA)
  • Xin Lan (NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory, 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80305, USA and Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, CO 80303, USA)
  • George H. Allen (Department of Geosciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA)
  • David Bastviken (Department of Thematic Studies - Environmental Change, Linköping University, 581 83 Linköping, Sweden)
  • David J. Beerling (School of Biosciences, University of Sheffield, UK)
  • Dmitry A. Belikov (Center for Environmental Remote Sensing, Chiba University, Chiba, 263-8522, Japan)
  • Donald R. Blake (Department of Chemistry, University of California Irvine, 570 Rowland Hall, Irivine, CA 92697, USA)
  • Simona Castaldi (Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Biologiche e Farmaceutiche, Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, via Vivaldi 43, 81100 Caserta, Italy)
  • Monica Crippa (European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy and Unisystems S.A., Milan, Italy)
  • Bridget R. Deemer (U.S. Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center, Flagstaff, AZ, USA)
  • Fraser Dennison (CSIRO Environment, Aspendale, Victoria 3195, Australia)
  • 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)
  • Nicola Gedney (Met Office Hadley Centre, Joint Centre for Hydrometeorological Research, Maclean Building, Wallingford OX10 8BB, UK)
  • Lena Höglund-Isaksson (Pollution Management Group (PM), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), 2361 Laxenburg, Austria)
  • Meredith A. Holgerson (Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA)
  • Peter O. Hopcroft (School of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK)
  • Gustaf Hugelius (Department of Physical Geography and Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden)
  • Akihiko Ito (Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan)
  • Atul K. Jain (Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61821, USA)
  • Rajesh Janardanan (Earth System Division, National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Onogawa 16-2, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8506, Japan)
  • Matthew S. Johnson (Earth Science Division, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA USA.)
  • Thomas Kleinen (Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Bundesstraße 53, 20146 Hamburg, Germany)
  • Paul B. Krummel (CSIRO Environment, Aspendale, Victoria 3195, Australia)
  • Ronny Lauerwald (Université Paris-Saclay, INRAE, AgroParisTech, UMR EcoSys, Palaiseau, France)
  • Tingting Li (LAPC, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100029, China)
  • Xiangyu Liu (Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA)
  • Kyle C. McDonald (Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, City College of New York, City University of New York, NY, USA)
  • Joe R. Melton (Climate Research Division, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Victoria, BC, V8W 2Y2, Canada)
  • Jens Mühle (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA)
  • Jurek 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 (Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecología y Sustentabilidad, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Morelia, Mexico)
  • Yosuke Niwa (Earth System Division, National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Onogawa 16-2, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8506, Japan and Department of Climate and Geochemistry Research, Meteorological Research Institute (MRI), Nagamine 1-1, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0052, Japan)
  • Sergio Noce (CMCC Foundation - Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, Italy)
  • Shufen Pan (Department of Engineering and Environmental Studies Program, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA)
  • Robert J. Parker (National Centre for Earth Observation, School of Physics and Astronomy, 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 and School of Geographic Sciences, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, China)
  • 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, US)
  • Gerard Rocher-Ros (Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 90183 Umeå, Sweden)
  • Judith A. Rosentreter (Centre for Coastal Biogeochemistry, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW 2480, Australia)
  • Motoki Sasakawa (Earth System Division, National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Onogawa 16-2, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8506, Japan)
  • Arjo Segers (TNO, dep. of Climate Air & Sustainability, P.O. Box 80015, NL-3508-TA, Utrecht, The Netherlands)
  • Steven J. Smith (Joint Global Change Research Institute, Pacific Northwest National Lab, College Park, MD, USA and Center for Global Sustainability, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA)
  • Emily H. Stanley (Center for Limnology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA)
  • Joël Thanwerdas (Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland and formerly at LSCE)
  • Hanqin Tian (Center for Earth System Science and Global Sustainability, Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA)
  • Aki Tsuruta (Finnish Meteorological Institute, P.O. Box 503, FI-00101, Helsinki, Finland)
  • Francesco N. Tubiello (Statistics Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, Rome 00153, Italy)
  • Thomas S. Weber (Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA)
  • Guido R. van der Werf (Meteorology and Air Quality Group, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, the Netherlands)
  • Douglas E. J. Worthy (Environment and Climate Change Canada, 4905, Dufferin Street, Toronto, Canada)
  • Yi Xi (Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE-IPSL (CEA-CNRS-UVSQ), Université Paris-Saclay 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France)
  • Yukio Yoshida (Earth System Division, 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)
  • Bo Zheng (Institute of Environment and Ecology, Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen 518055, China106 and State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Sources and Control of Air Pollution Complex, Beijing 100084, China)
  • Qing Zhu (Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, US)
  • Qiuan Zhu (College of Geography and Remote Sensing, Hohai University, Nanjing, 210098, China)
  • Qianlai Zhuang (Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA)