Causes of high methane levels over Arctic Ocean

Methane levels in the atmosphere over the Arctic Ocean are very high, as illustrated by the image below, by Leonid Yurganov, showing IASI me...

More on Wildfires

Previous posts have highlighted the huge amounts of carbon dioxide, methane and soot being emitted as a result of wildfires. Apart from this...

Arctic satellite thermal infrared CH4 data compared to surface in-situ and total column measurements

Leonid Yurganov , Senior Research Scientist, Joint Center for Earth Systems  Technology, University of Maryland Baltimore County Below an ab...

Record Methane in Arctic early March 2013

The image below, produced by Dr. Leonid Yurganov, shows methane levels for the first ten days of March 2013. Methane levels for this period ...

Overview of IASI methane levels

Dr. Leonid Yurganov kindly shared an overview of his analysis of IASI methane levels over the years. The overview shows a marked difference ...

Dramatic increase in methane in the Arctic in January 2013

Below a combination of images produced by Dr. Leonid Yurganov, showing methane levels January 1-10, 2013 (below left), January 11-20, 2013 (...

High methane levels persist in January 2013

Below a combination of images produced by Dr. Leonid Yurganov, comparing methane levels between January 1-10, 2012 (below left), and January...

High methane levels persist in December 2012

The image below was posted earlier at  Methane contributes to accelerated warming in the Arctic . As mentioned there, this is a compilation ...

Methane contributes to accelerated warming in the Arctic

Above combination image featured earlier in the post  Striking increase of methane in the Arctic . The images were produced by Dr. Leonid Yu...

Striking increase of methane in the Arctic

Click on image to enlarge Dr. Leonid Yurganov, Senior Research Scientist, JCET, UMBC, and member of AMEG, produced the above images with IA...

Methane levels for March 2012 are highest above ESAS

NASA has made available the monthly methane levels for March 2012. As the polar projection below shows, extremely high levels of methane are...