Methane emissions in the Tibetan Plateau of China inferred from atmospheric observations

Fenjuan Wang1, Shamil S Maksyutov1, Rajesh Janardanan Achari1, Aki Tsuruta2, Akihiko Ito1, Isamu Morino1, Yukio Yoshida1, Yasunori Tohjima3, Johannes W. Kaiser4, Xin Lan5, Yong Zhang6, Miao Liang7, Ivan Mammarella8 and Tsuneo Matsunaga9, (1)National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan, (2)Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland, (3)NIES National Institute of Environmental Studies, Ibaraki, Japan, (4)Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany, (5)NOAA, Global Monitoring Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (6)National Satellite Meteorological Center of China, Beijing, China, (7)CMA, China, Beijing, China, (8)University of Helsinki, Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research / Physics, Faculty of Science, Helsinki, Finland, (9)National Institute for Environmental Studies, Satellite Observation Center, Tsukuba, Japan