Improved measurement datasets and prior emission information for advancing global methane inverse modeling


Sylvia Michel1, Stefan Schwietzke2,3, Xin Lan2,4, Sourish Basu2,5, Lori Bruhwiler6, Edward J Dlugokencky6, Giuseppe Etiope7, Owen Sherwood8, Qianlai Zhuang9, Licheng LIU10, Youmi Oh11, John B Miller3, Gabrielle Petron12,13 and Pieter P Tans3, (1)Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, United States, (2)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Studies, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)NOAA Earth System Research Lab, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)NOAA, ESRL/GMD, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)NOAA, Global Monitoring Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (6)NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (7)INGV National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Rome, Italy, (8)Dalhousie University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Halifax, NS, Canada, (9)Purdue University, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, United States, (10)University of Wisconsin-Madison, Biological Systems Engineering, Madison, United States, (11)NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (12)University of Colorado, Boulder, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States, (13)National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Global Monitoring Division, Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States