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# obspack_ch4_1_GLOBALVIEWplus_v4.0_2021-10-14
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# Kenneth N. Schuldt, Tuula Aalto, Arlyn Andrews, Shuji Aoki, Jgor
# Arduini, Bianca Baier, Peter Bergamaschi, Tobias Biermann, Sebastien
# C. Biraud, Harald Boenisch, Gordon Brailsford, Huilin Chen, Aurelie
# Colomb, Sébastien Conil, Paolo Cristofanelli, Emilio Cuevas, Bruce
# Daube, Kenneth Davis, Martine De Mazière, Marc Delmotte, Ankur Desai,
# Joshua P. DiGangi, Ed Dlugokencky, James W. Elkins, Lukas Emmenegger,
# Marc L. Fischer, Luciana V. Gatti, Torsten Gehrlein, Christoph Gerbig,
# Emanuel Gloor, Daisuke Goto, László Haszpra, Juha Hatakka, Martin
# Heimann, Michal Heliasz, Ove Hermanssen, Eric Hintsa, Jutta Holst,
# Viktor Ivakhov, Dan Jaffe, Warren Joubert, Hui-Yun Kang, Anna Karion,
# Victor Kazan, Petri Keronen, Mi-Young Ko, Katerina Kominkova, Eric
# Kort, Elena Kozlova, Paul Krummel, Dagmar Kubistin, Casper
# Labuschagne, Ray Langenfelds, Olivier Laurent, Tuomas Laurila, Thomas
# Lauvaux, John Lee, Haeyoung Lee, Choong-Hoon Lee, Irene Lehner, Reimo
# Leppert, Markus Leuenberger, Matthias Lindauer, Zoe Loh, Morgan Lopez,
# Toshinobu Machida, Ivan Mammarella, Giovanni Manca, Michal V. Marek,
# Melissa Y. Martin, Hidekazu Matsueda, Kathryn McKain, Natasha Miles,
# Charles E. Miller, John B. Miller, Fred Moore, Shinji Morimoto, David
# Munro, Cathrine L. Myhre, Meelis Mölder, Jennifer Müller-Williams,
# Sylvia Nichol, Yosuke Niwa, Simon O'Doherty, Florian Obersteiner,
# Salvatore Piacentino, Jean M. Pichon, Jasna Pittman, Christian Plass-
# Duelmer, Michel Ramonet, Scott Richardson, Pedro P. Rivas, Kazuyuki
# Saito, Greg Santoni, Motoki Sasakawa, Bert Scheeren, Tanja Schuck,
# Marcus Schumacher, Thomas Seifert, Mahesh K. Sha, Paul Shepson,
# Christopher D. Sloop, Paul Smith, Martin Steinbacher, Britton
# Stephens, Colm Sweeney, Helder Timas, Margaret Torn, Pamela Trisolino,
# Jocelyn Turnbull, Kjetil Tørseth, Brian Viner, Gabriela Vitkova,
# Andrew Watson, Steve Wofsy, Justin Worsey, Doug Worthy, Andreas Zahn,
# Alcide G. di Sarra; (2021): Multi-laboratory compilation of
# atmospheric methane data for the period 1983-2020;
# obspack_ch4_1_GLOBALVIEWplus_v4.0_2021-10-14; NOAA Earth System
# Research Laboratory, Global Monitoring Laboratory.
# http://doi.org/10.25925/20211001.
#
Alcide Giorgio di Sarra [Italian National agency for new technologies, Energy and sustainable economic development, laboratory UTMEA-TER Earth Observations and Analyses]
Andreas Zahn [Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)]
Andrew Watson [University of Exeter, Centre for Environmental Data Analysis]
Ankur Desai [University of Wisconsin]
Anna Karion [National Institute of Standards and Technology]
Arlyn Andrews [National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration]
Aurelie Colomb [Observatoire de Physique du Globe de Clermont Ferrand ]
Bert Scheeren [Centre for Isotope Research, Energy and Sustainability Research Institute Groningen, University of Groningen]
Bianca Baier [National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration]
Brian Viner [Atmospheric Technologies Group Savannah River National Laboratory]
Britton Stephens [National Center for Atmospheric Research]
Bruce Daube [Harvard University]
Casper Labuschagne [South African Weather Service]
Cathrine Lund Myhre [Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Kjeller, Norway]
Charles E. Miller [NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory]
Choong-Hoon Lee [Korea Meteorological Administration]
Christian Plass-Duelmer [Deutscher Wetterdienst ]
Christian Plass-Duelmer [Hohenpeißenberg Meteorological Observatory]
Christoph Gerbig [Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry]
Christopher D. Sloop [Earth Networks]
Colm Sweeney [National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration]
Dagmar Kubistin [Hohenpeißenberg Meteorological Observatory]
Daisuke Goto [National Institute of Polar Research]
Dan Jaffe [University of Washington]
David Munro [National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration]
Doug Worthy [Environment and Climate Change Canada]
Ed Dlugokencky [National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration]
Elena Kozlova [University of Exeter, Centre for Environmental Data Analysis]
Emanuel Gloor [University of Leeds]
Emilio Cuevas [State Meteorological Agency of Spain]
Eric Hintsa [National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration]
Eric Kort [University of Michigan]
Florian Obersteiner [Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)]
Fred Moore [National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration]
Gabriela Vitkova [CzechGlobe -Global Change Research Institute CAS]
Giovanni Manca [European Commission, Joint Research Centre]
Gordon Brailsford [National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research]
Greg Santoni [Harvard University ]
Haeyoung Lee [Korea Meteorological Administration]
Harald Boenisch [Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)]
Helder Timas [Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia e Geofisica]
Hidekazu Matsueda [Meteorological Research Institute]
Hui-Yun Kang [Korea Meteorological Administration]
Huilin Chen [Centre for Isotope Research, Energy and Sustainability Research Institute Groningen, University of Groningen]
Irene Lehner [Lund University, Centre for Environmental and Climate Research]
Ivan Mammarella [Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research/Physics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Helsinki]
James W. Elkins [NOAA GML Halocarbons and other Atmospheric Trace Species (HATS)]
Jasna Pittman [Harvard University]
Jean Marc Pichon [Observatoire de Physique du Globe de Clermont Ferrand ]
Jennifer Müller-Williams [Hohenpeißenberg Meteorological Observatory]
Jgor Arduini [University of Urbino]
Jocelyn Turnbull [GNS Science]
John B. Miller [National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration]
John Lee [University of Maine]
Joshua P. DiGangi [NASA Langley Research Center]
Juha Hatakka [Finnish Meteorological Institute]
Justin Worsey [University of Exeter, Centre for Environmental Data Analysis]
Jutta Holst [Lund University, Dept. Phys. Geography & Ecosystem Science]
Katerina Kominkova [CzechGlobe -Global Change Research Institute CAS]
Kathryn McKain [National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration]
Kazuyuki Saito [Japan Meteorological Agency]
Kenneth Davis [Penn State University]
Kjetil Tørseth [Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Kjeller, Norway]
László Haszpra [Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences]
Luciana V. Gatti [National Institute for Space Research (INPE), Center of Terrestrial System Science (CCST), Greenhouse Gas Laboratory (LaGEE)]
Lukas Emmenegger [Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology]
Mahesh Kumar Sha []
Marc Delmotte [Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement - UMR8212 CEA-CNRS-UVSQ]
Marc L. Fischer [Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory]
Marcus Schumacher [Hohenpeissenberg Meteorological Observatory]
Margaret Torn [ARM Carbon Project, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory]
Markus Leuenberger [Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute, University of Bern]
Martin Heimann [University of Exeter, Centre for Environmental Data Analysis]
Martin Steinbacher [Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology]
Martine De Mazière []
Matthias Lindauer [Hohenpeißenberg Meteorological Observatory]
Meelis Mölder [Lund University - Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science]
Melissa Yang Martin [NASA Suborbital Research Center]
Mi-Young Ko [Korea Meteorological Administration]
Michal Heliasz [Lund University, Centre for Environmental and Climate Research]
Michal V. Marek [CzechGlobe -Global Change Research Institute CAS]
Michel Ramonet [Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement - UMR8212 CEA-CNRS-UVSQ]
Morgan Lopez [Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement, Gif sur Yvette, France]
Motoki Sasakawa [National Instiute for Environmental Studies]
Natasha Miles [Penn State University]
Olivier Laurent [ICOS Atmospheric Thematic Center]
Ove Hermanssen [Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Kjeller, Norway]
Pamela Trisolino [ISAC]
Paolo Cristofanelli [Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (CNR-ISAC)]
Paul Krummel [42 Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Oceans and Atmosphere, Aspendale, Victoria, Australia]
Paul Shepson [Purdue University]
Paul Smith []
Pedro P. Rivas [State Meteorological Agency of Spain]
Peter Bergamaschi [European Commission, Joint Research Centre]
Petri Keronen [Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research/Physics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Helsinki]
Ray Langenfelds [42 Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Oceans and Atmosphere, Aspendale, Victoria, Australia]
Reimo Leppert [University of Exeter, Centre for Environmental Data Analysis]
Salvatore Piacentino [Italian National agency for new technologies, Energy and sustainable economic development, laboratory UTMEA-TER Earth Observations and Analyses]
Scott Richardson [Penn State University]
Sebastien C. Biraud [ARM Carbon Project, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory]
Sébastien Conil [Agence nationale pour la gestion des déchets radioactifs]
Shinji Morimoto [Tohoku University]
Shuji Aoki [Tohoku University]
Simon O'Doherty [Atmospheric Chemistry Research Group School of Chemistry University of Bristol]
Steve Wofsy [Harvard University, Division of Engineering and Applied Science/Department of Earth and Planetary Science]
Sylvia Nichol [National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research]
Tanja Schuck [Institute for Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, University of Frankfurt]
Thomas Lauvaux [Penn State University]
Thomas Seifert [University of Exeter, Centre for Environmental Data Analysis]
Tobias Biermann [LUND-CEC]
Torsten Gehrlein [Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)]
Toshinobu Machida [National Instiute for Environmental Studies]
Tuomas Laurila [Finnish Meteorological Institute]
Tuula Aalto [Finnish Meteorological Institute]
Victor Kazan [Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement - UMR8212 CEA-CNRS-UVSQ]
Viktor Ivakhov [Voeikov Main Geophysical Observatory]
Warren Joubert [South African Weather Service]
Yosuke Niwa [National Institute for Environmental Studies]
Zoe Loh [42 Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Oceans and Atmosphere, Aspendale, Victoria, Australia]