WATER PANS AS HOT SPOTS FOR METHANE EMISSIONS IN ARID AND SEMI-ARID REGIONS OF EAST AFRICA

Gretchen M Gettel1, Collins Muhadia2,3, Oswald Omuron1, Sonja Leitner2, Polly Ericksen2 and Klaus Butterbach-Bahl4,5, (1)IHE-Delft Institute for Water Education, Delft, Netherlands, (2)International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya, (3)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany, (4)Aarhus University, Department of Agroecology, Aarhus C, Denmark, (5)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Meterology and Climate Atmosphere Environmental Research, Karlsruhe, Germany