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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-8-697-2016
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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-8-697-2016
© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Review article
| 
12 Dec 2016
Review article |
| 12 Dec 2016
The global methane budget 2000–2012
Marielle Saunois
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE-IPSL (CEA-CNRS-UVSQ), Université Paris-Saclay 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Philippe Bousquet
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE-IPSL (CEA-CNRS-UVSQ), Université Paris-Saclay 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Ben Poulter
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Biospheric Science Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
Anna Peregon
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
Josep G. Canadell
Global Carbon Project, CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
Edward J. Dlugokencky
NOAA ESRL, 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80305, USA
Giuseppe Etiope
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Sezione Roma 2, via V. Murata 605 00143 Rome, Italy
David Bastviken
Department of Thematic Studies – Environmental Change, Linköping University, 581 83 Linköping, Sweden
Sander Houweling
Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON), Sorbonnelaan 2, 3584 CA Utrecht, the Netherlands
Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, Sorbonnelaan 2, 3584 CA, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Greet Janssens-Maenhout
European Commission Joint Research Centre, Ispra (Va), Italy
Francesco N. Tubiello
Statistics Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, Rome 00153, Italy
Simona Castaldi
Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Biologiche e Farmaceutiche, Seconda Università di Napoli, via Vivaldi 43, 81100 Caserta, Italy
Far East Federal University (FEFU), Vladivostok, Russky Island, Russia
Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, Via Augusto Imperatore 16, 73100 Lecce, Italy
Robert B. Jackson
School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-2210, USA
Mihai Alexe
European Commission Joint Research Centre, Ispra (Va), Italy
Vivek K. Arora
Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis, Climate Research Division, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Victoria, BC, V8W 2Y2, Canada
David J. Beerling
Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
Peter Bergamaschi
European Commission Joint Research Centre, 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
Victor Brovkin
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Bundesstraße 53, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
Lori Bruhwiler
NOAA ESRL, 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80305, USA
Cyril Crevoisier
Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, LMD-IPSL, Ecole Polytechnique, 91120 Palaiseau, France
Patrick Crill
Department of Geological Sciences and Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Svante Arrhenius väg 8, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
Kristofer Covey
School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
Charles Curry
School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria, P.O. Box 1700 STN CSC, Victoria, BC, Canada V8W 2Y2
Christian Frankenberg
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, M/S 183-601, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA
Nicola Gedney
Met Office Hadley Centre, Joint Centre for Hydrometeorological Research, Maclean Building, Wallingford OX10 8BB, UK
Lena Höglund-Isaksson
Air Quality and Greenhouse Gases Program (AIR), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), 2361 Laxenburg, Austria
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
Fortunat Joos
Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute and Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Sidlerstr. 5, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
Heon-Sook Kim
Center for Global Environmental Research, National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Onogawa 16-2, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8506, Japan
Thomas Kleinen
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Bundesstraße 53, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
Paul Krummel
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Aspendale, Victoria 3195, Australia
Jean-François Lamarque
NCAR, P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307-3000, USA
Ray Langenfelds
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Aspendale, Victoria 3195, Australia
Robin Locatelli
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE-IPSL (CEA-CNRS-UVSQ), Université Paris-Saclay 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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 University of New York, New York, NY 10031, USA
Julia Marshall
Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans-Knöll-Str. 10, 07745 Jena, Germany
Joe R. Melton
Climate Research Division, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Victoria, BC, V8W 2Y2, Canada
Isamu Morino
Met Office Hadley Centre, Joint Centre for Hydrometeorological Research, Maclean Building, Wallingford OX10 8BB, UK
Vaishali Naik
NOAA, GFDL, 201 Forrestal Rd., Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
Simon O'Doherty
School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Cantock's Close, Clifton, Bristol BS8 1TS, UK
Frans-Jan W. Parmentier
Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University, Sölvegatan 12, 223 62, Lund, Sweden
Prabir K. Patra
Department of Environmental Geochemical Cycle Research, JAMSTEC, 3173-25 Showa-machi, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, 236-0001, Japan
Changhui Peng
Department of Biology Sciences, Institute of Environment Science, University of Quebec at Montreal, Montreal, QC H3C 3P8, Canada
Shushi Peng
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE-IPSL (CEA-CNRS-UVSQ), Université Paris-Saclay 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Glen P. Peters
Center for International Climate and Environmental Research – Oslo (CICERO), Pb. 1129 Blindern, 0318 Oslo, Norway
Isabelle Pison
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE-IPSL (CEA-CNRS-UVSQ), Université Paris-Saclay 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Catherine Prigent
CNRS/LERMA, Observatoire de Paris, 61 Ave. de l'Observatoire, 75014 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
William J. Riley
Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Makoto Saito
Center for Global Environmental Research, National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Onogawa 16-2, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8506, Japan
Monia Santini
Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, Via Augusto Imperatore 16, 73100 Lecce, Italy
Ronny Schroeder
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, City University of New York, New York, NY 10031, USA
Institute of Botany, University of Hohenheim, 70593 Stuttgart, Germany
Isobel J. Simpson
Department of Chemistry, University of California Irvine, 570 Rowland Hall, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
Renato Spahni
Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute and Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Sidlerstr. 5, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
Paul Steele
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Aspendale, Victoria 3195, Australia
Atsushi Takizawa
Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), 1-3-4 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-8122, Japan
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
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
Space & Atmospheric Physics, The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK
Michiel Weele
KNMI, P.O. Box 201, 3730 AE, De Bilt, the Netherlands
Guido R. Werf
Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Earth and Climate Cluster, VU Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Ray Weiss
Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
Christine Wiedinmyer
NCAR, P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307-3000, USA
David J. Wilton
Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
Andy Wiltshire
Met Office Hadley Centre, FitzRoy Road, Exeter, EX1 3PB, UK
Doug Worthy
Environnement Canada, 4905, rue Dufferin, Toronto, Canada
Debra Wunch
Department of Physics, University of Toronto, 60 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Yukio Yoshida
Center for Global Environmental Research, National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Onogawa 16-2, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8506, Japan
Bowen Zhang
International Center for Climate and Global Change Research, School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn University, 602 Duncan Drive, Auburn, AL 36849, USA
Zhen Zhang
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Biospheric Science Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf 8059, Switzerland
Qiuan Zhu
State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China
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AC1: 'Erratum on Figure 1.', Marielle Saunois, 30 Jun 2016
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RC1: 'Review of Saunois et al: The Global Methane Budget 2000-2012, by E.G. Nisbet', Euan Nisbet, 14 Jul 2016
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RC2: 'comment on “The Global Methane Budget: 2000–2012” by Marielle Saunois et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 27 Jul 2016
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Short summary
An accurate assessment of the methane budget is important to understand the atmospheric methane concentrations and trends and to provide realistic pathways for climate change mitigation. The various and diffuse sources of methane as well and its oxidation by a very short lifetime radical challenge this assessment. We quantify the methane sources and sinks as well as their uncertainties based on both bottom-up and top-down approaches provided by a broad international scientific community.
An accurate assessment of the methane budget is important to understand the atmospheric methane...
