Satellite observations of atmospheric methane and their value for quantifying methane emissions

Daniel J. Jacob, Harvard University, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, Alexander J. Turner, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, Joannes D Maasakkers, Harvard University, Cambridge, United States, Jianxiong Sheng, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for Global Change Science, Cambridge, United States, Daniel J. Varon, Harvard University, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, United States, Kang Sun, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, United States, Xiong Liu, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, United States, Kelly Chance, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, Cambridge, United States, Ilse Aben, SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research, Leiden, Netherlands, Jason McKeever, GHGSat, Inc., Montreal, QC, Canada and Christian Frankenberg, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States