South Sudan atmospheric methane map 2021 average

This image shows atmospheric methane concentrations over South Sudan, where the Sudd wetlands are a well-known methane source. This atmospheric methane map shows the average concentration over South Sudan in 2021, retrieved from the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite, using the WFMD retrieval algorithm developed at the University of Bremen (Schneising et al., 2023).

Areas in dark red have the highest methane concentrations of around 1900 parts per billion, while blue areas show lower methane concentration in the atmosphere of around 1800 parts per billion.

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