Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 12, 1561–1623, 2020 https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-1561-2020 © Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. The Global Methane Budget 2000–2017 Marielle Saunois1, Ann R. Stavert2, Ben Poulter3, Philippe Bousquet1, Josep G. Canadell2, Robert B. Jackson4, Peter A. Raymond5, Edward J. Dlugokencky6, Sander Houweling7,8, Prabir K. Patra9,10, Philippe Ciais1, Vivek K. Arora11, David Bastviken12, Peter Bergamaschi13, Donald R. Blake14, Gordon Brailsford15, Lori Bruhwiler6, Kimberly M. Carlson16,17, Mark Carrol70, Simona Castaldi18,19,20, Naveen Chandra9, Cyril Crevoisier21, Patrick M. Crill22, Kristofer Covey23, Charles L. Curry24,71, Giuseppe Etiope25,26, Christian Frankenberg27,28, Nicola Gedney29, Michaela I. Hegglin30, Lena Höglund-Isaksson31, Gustaf Hugelius32, Misa Ishizawa33, Akihiko Ito33, Greet Janssens-Maenhout13, Katherine M. Jensen34, Fortunat Joos35, Thomas Kleinen36, Paul B. Krummel37, Ray L. Langenfelds37, Goulven G. Laruelle38, Licheng Liu39, Toshinobu Machida33, Shamil Maksyutov33, Kyle C. McDonald34, Joe McNorton40, Paul A. Miller41, Joe R. Melton42, Isamu Morino33, Jurek Müller35, Fabiola Murguia-Flores43, Vaishali Naik44, Yosuke Niwa33,45, Sergio Noce20, Simon O’Doherty46, Robert J. Parker47, Changhui Peng48, Shushi Peng49, Glen P. Peters50, Catherine Prigent51, Ronald Prinn52, Michel Ramonet1, Pierre Regnier38, William J. Riley53, Judith A. Rosentreter54, Arjo Segers55, Isobel J. Simpson14, Hao Shi56, Steven J. Smith57,58, L. Paul Steele37, Brett F. Thornton22, Hanqin Tian56, Yasunori Tohjima72, Francesco N. Tubiello59, Aki Tsuruta60, Nicolas Viovy1, Apostolos Voulgarakis61,62, Thomas S. Weber63, Michiel van Weele64, Guido R. van der Werf8, Ray F. Weiss65, Doug Worthy66, Debra Wunch67, Yi Yin1,27, Yukio Yoshida33, Wenxin Zhang41, Zhen Zhang68, Yuanhong Zhao1, Bo Zheng1, Qing Zhu53, Qiuan Zhu69, and Qianlai Zhuang39 1Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement, LSCE-IPSL (CEA-CNRS-UVSQ), Université Paris-Saclay 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France 2Global Carbon Project, CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Aspendale, VIC 3195 & Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia 3NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Biospheric Science Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA 4Department of Earth System Science, Woods Institute for the Environment, and Precourt Institute for Energy, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-2210, USA 5Yale School of the Environment, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA 6NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory, 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80305, USA 7SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research, Sorbonnelaan 2, 3584 CA Utrecht, the Netherlands 8Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Department of Earth Sciences, Earth and Climate Cluster, VU Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands 9Research Institute for Global Change, JAMSTEC, 3173-25 Showa-machi, Kanazawa, Yokohama, 236-0001, Japan 10Center for Environmental Remote Sensing, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan 11Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis, Climate Research Division, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Victoria, BC, V8W 2Y2, Canada 12Department of Thematic Studies – Environmental Change, Linköping University, 581 83 Linköping, Sweden 13European Commission Joint Research Centre, Via E. Fermi 2749, 21027 Ispra (Va), Italy 14Department of Chemistry, University of California Irvine, 570 Rowland Hall, Irvine, CA 92697, USA 15National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, 301 Evans Bay Parade, Wellington, New Zealand 16Department of Environmental Studies, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA 17Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management, University of Hawai’i, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA Published by Copernicus Publications. 1562 M. Saunois et al.: The Global Methane Budget 2000–2017 18Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Biologiche e Farmaceutiche, Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, via Vivaldi 43, 81100 Caserta, Italy 19Department of Landscape Design and Sustainable Ecosystems, RUDN University, Moscow, Russia 20Impacts on Agriculture, Forests, and Ecosystem Services Division, Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici, Via Augusto Imperatore 16, 73100 Lecce, Italy 21Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, LMD-IPSL, Ecole Polytechnique, 91120 Palaiseau, France 22Department of Geological Sciences and Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, Svante Arrhenius väg 8, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden 23Environmental Studies and Sciences Program, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866, USA 24Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium, University of Victoria, University House 1, P.O. 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