Preliminary Assessment of Methane Concentration Variation Observed by GOSAT in China

Figure 4

The seasonal variation of all the GOSAT XCH₄ data over China land region (light blue dots), the Sichuan Basin (red dots), and the rice paddy fields (dark green dots) in the same latitude zone from January 2010 to December 2013. The dark blue dots are the monthly mean for land region and the blue line shows the corresponding trend from linear fitting.