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GRiMeDB: the Global River Methane Database of concentrations and fluxes
Center for Limnology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
Luke C. Loken
Center for Limnology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
U.S. Geological Survey, Upper Midwest Science Center, Madison, WI 53726, USA
Nora J. Casson
Department of Geography, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, MB R3B 2E9, Canada
Samantha K. Oliver
U.S. Geological Survey, Upper Midwest Science Center, Madison, WI 53726, USA
Ryan A. Sponseller
Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, Umeå, 90736, Sweden
Marcus B. Wallin
Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, 75007, Sweden
Liwei Zhang
Sino-French Institute for Earth System Science, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, 100871, Beijing, China
Gerard Rocher-Ros
Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 90183 Umeå, Sweden
Integrative Freshwater Ecology Group, Centre for Advanced Studies of Blanes (CEAB-CSIC), 17300 Girona, Spain
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The Global River Methane Database (GRiMeDB) presents CH4 concentrations and fluxes for flowing waters and concurrent measures of CO2, N2O, and several physicochemical variables, plus information about sample locations and methods used to measure gas fluxes. GRiMeDB is intended to increase opportunities to understand variation in fluvial CH4, test hypotheses related to greenhouse gas dynamics, and reduce uncertainty in future estimates of gas emissions from world streams and rivers.
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