Improved constraints on global methane emissions and sinks using δ13CH4

Xin Lan1,2, Stefan Schwietzke3, Sourish Basu1, Lori Bruhwiler1, Edward J Dlugokencky4, Sylvia Englund Michel5, Owen Sherwood6, Giuseppe Etiope7, Qianlai Zhuang8, Licheng LIU8, Youmi Oh8, John B Miller1, Gabrielle Petron1,2, Bruce H Vaughn9 and Pieter P Tans1, (1)NOAA, ESRL/GMD, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Environmental Defense Fund, Berlin, Germany, (4)NOAA/ESRL Global Monitoring Division, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)Dalhousie University, Department of Earth Sciences, Halifax, NS, Canada, (7)INGV National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Rome, Italy, (8)Purdue University, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, IN, United States, (9)University of Colorado, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, CO, United States