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SUBMITTER: Saito M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5113007 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Saito Makoto M Kim Heon-Sook HS Ito Akihiko A Yokota Tatsuya T Maksyutov Shamil S
PloS one 20161116 11
The Amazon is a significant source of atmospheric methane, but little is known about the source response to increasing drought severity and frequency. We investigated satellite observations of atmospheric column-averaged methane for the 2010 drought and subsequent 2011 wet year in the Amazon using an atmospheric inversion scheme. Our analysis indicates an increase in atmospheric methane over the southern Amazon region during the drought, representing an increase in annual emissions relative to t ...[more]