Articles | Volume 18, issue 22
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-18-7053-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-18-7053-2025
Research article
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27 Nov 2025
Research article |  | 27 Nov 2025

If the Yedoma thaws, will we notice? Quantifying detection limits of top-down methane monitoring infrastructures

Martijn M. T. A. Pallandt, Abhishek Chatterjee, Lesley E. Ott, Julia Marshall, and Mathias Göckede

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Quantifying detection limits of top-down methane monitoring infrastructures-Data and Scripts Martijn Pallandt et al. https://doi.org/10.17617/3.CNMEUZ

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Climate change is greatly affecting the Arctic. Among these changes is the thawing of permanently frozen soil, which may increase the release of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas (GHG). In this study we investigated the capabilities of tall GHG measuring towers and two satellite systems to detect this methane release. We find that these systems have different strengths and weaknesses, and that individually they struggle to detect these changes, though combined they might cover their weak spots.
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