Sources of Methane

The NASA SVS visualization presented here shows the complex patterns of methane emissions produced around the globe and throughout the year from the different sources described above. The visualization was created using output from the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, GMAO, GEOS modeling system, developed and maintained by scientists at NASA. Wetland emissions were estimated by the LPJ-wsl model, which simulates the temperature and moisture dependent methane emission processes using a variety of satellite data to determine what parts of the globe are covered by wetlands. Other methane emission sources come from inventories of human activity. The height of Earth’s atmosphere and topography have been vertically exaggerated and appear approximately 50-times higher than normal in order to show the complexity of the atmospheric flow.

Visualizers: Cindy Starr (lead), Kel Elkins, Greg Shirah, Trent L. Schindler

Music: "Motion Blur" by Sam Dobson [PRS]

[deepakshukla]

This is the only place where USA not highlighted their importance.

[wisdom]

Why US not highlighted, due personal biases ??

[theftauto]

I'd like to see the whole world map over the year. The USA is largely missed out in this visual. It would be interesting to see the methane emissions from fracking outside of the wetter times of the year

[DoYouLikeTacos]

It's funny how they didn't mentioned their own country but mentioned others

[shortsforlife]

ISRO should have their own channel so that we can get out of this biased information provided by US agencies.

[bimmjim]

This misses the Continental USA. The USA is not emitting significant methane.

[flamermelody]

This report is bias. The US is the number 1 producer of methane and on the animation here it shows that methane is not release in the US.

[thesilentone]

Would be nice to get a updated one from lets say 2, 000 to 2023 .

[kingjeremysircornwell]

Dog poop is unregulated hydrocarbon(methane) kill the dog's. Crime to own liv with dog/animals inside city limits, get the dog's out!

[emoney]

That's a lot of potential energy.
We gotta do better than that

[Slasahsaposoche]

aaaa where is the USA, because it is the second country after China in terms of emissions

[bhuvansharma]

You didn’t mentioned beef industry and fracking but mentioned livestock in India?

[JODYCARROLL]

Nice how it ovoids showing the US for a long period of time.

[edpiv]

I knew they would come for my cheeseburgers

[nathanp]

Hydro should be paying big time methane taxes in Canada..

[SmokeandSpirit]

Is there a reason why we glossed right over the USA?

Here I am hoping to see our methane production.. I know we have about a third the Cows of India so Ill figure we're little less than a third of that nasty smog cloud.

Yet big ag has the largest lobby in the states, so idk, I guess sweeping it under the rug is just standard operating procedure.

[goldenshatter]

We are start to do methane capture for rockets and its net zero because it was there to begin with.

[carllelendt]

So which is the problem.. -the methane, or methane emissions?

[jamesruscheinski]

Is there a way to figure out how plants and trees turn carbon dioxide into oxygen? Maybe can turn carbon dioxide in the air into oxygen

[schemeteam]

The scary thing is people believe this animation is accurate