An investigation of regional tropospheric methane in central interior Alaska using direct-sun FTIR

Nicole Jacobs1, William R Simpson2, Kimberly Strong3, Stephanie A Conway4, Yasuko Kasai5, Manvendra Krishna Dubey6, Harrison Alexander Parker7, Frank Hase8, Thomas Blumenstock8 and Qiansi Tu9, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, (2)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry & Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, United States, (3)University of Toronto, Physics, Toronto, ON, Canada, (4)University of Toronto, Department of Physics, Toronto, ON, Canada, (5)NICT National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Tokyo, Japan, (6)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (7)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (8)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe, Germany, (9)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, IMK-ASF, Karlsruhe, Germany