This dataset contains model output for experiments using the UKESM1-CH4 emissions-driven configuration of the UK Earth System model, based on the science version (Sellar et al.,2011, DOI:10.1029/2019MS001739) coupled with the United Kingdom Chemistry and Aerosol scheme (Archibald et al., DOI:10.5194/gmd-13-1223-2020). The simulation follows the experimental design of CMIP6-sponsored ScenarioMIP (O'Neill et al., DOI:10.5194/gmd-9-3461-2016) SSP3-7.0 and SSP1-2.6 Shared Socioeconomic Pathways. These simulation span 2015-2050 and use a coupled atmosphere-ocean climate model. To assess climate model variability, three ensemble members are archived which differ only in the initial conditions for the experiment. The data comprise annual mean output over the experimental period for temperature, ozone, methane, hydroxyl radical, precipitation and provided diagnostic air mass and diagnostics suitable for the calculation of the methane lifetime and budget. We archive data from this methane emissions-driven configuration as NZAME/ensemble experiment as by186(ensemble 1), bz146(ensemble 2) and bz473(ensemble 3). To improve reproducibility the UKESM1 jobids are included as identifiers. For comparison, emissions-driven experiments are included as {Scenario}/JOBID: SSP1-2.6 (bo812), and three ensemble members for SSP3-7.0: bo797(ens 1), ca723(ens 2) and cb039(ens3).

This dataset contains methane concentrations from a chemistry-climate model, focusing on year 2000 and year 2100. The present-day forcings were used for the 2000 simulation, while for year 2100 the Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) RCP8.5 pathway were used. All experiments were run as perpetual timeslice experiments and are global model simulations made using the Met Office Unified Model at vn7.3 based on the HadGEM3-A science configuration. The model was run in atmosphere-only mode with a horizontal resolution of 2.5 degree latitude by 3.75 degree longitude, 60 vertical levels up to 84 km, and prescribed sea surface temperatures and sea ice extents. SST, sea ice and other forcings from earlier model experiments were used, e.g. Banerjee et al. (doi:/10.5194/acp-14-9871-2014). For the year 2000 experiments, greenhouse gas, ozone depleting substances and ozone precursor emissions are taken from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project - Phase 5 (CMIP5) reference forcings, as in Lamarque, 2010 (doi.org/10.5194/acp-10-7017-2010). The data comprise a series of separate experiments designed to test the performance of methane emissions in this model and to compare against the default that uses a prescribed concentration at the surface, with a view to assessing the performance of the more physically realist emissions treatment. For year 2000, the model was run for three experiments: the first (BASE) experiments employ a set of emissions derived from EDGAR v4 to describe anthropogenic methane emissions, with biognenic emissions taken from the chemistry-transport model (CTM) intercomparison experiment (TransCom-CH4) paper of Patra et al, (DOI:10.5194/acp-11-12813-2011), a second set of experiments used identical emissions to BASE except that CO emissions were increased by 50% globally from the emissions of Lamarque, this is called Delta_CO, and a third year 2000 experiment used CMIP5 methane emissions from Lamarque (as above) rather than EDGAR and biogenic emissions derived from Melton et al. (https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-10-753-2013) rather than Patra. These experiments test the model skill in simulating methane based on the model treatment of emissions and establish the sensitivity to emissions. Three future climate experiments were also performed using climate forcings appropriate to year 2100 following the RCP8.5 pathway. We looked at the climate drivers in turn that arise as the climate changes. In the first, DELTA_CC, climate forcings were adjusted from greenhouse gases to year 2100 values, but kept methane and other anthropogenic forcings at year 2000 values, a second experiment, DELTA_CH4, adjusted CH4 to Year 2100 values from the emissions database as above, a third was an all-forcings experiments in which greenhouse gases, methane and ozone precursors were adjusted to RCP8.5 levels. This gave three separate experiments which explore how methane responds to these changes in the climate drivers.

This dataset contains carbon dioxide and methane measurements from the Kirby Misperton site. British Geological Survey (BGS), the universities of Birmingham, Bristol, Liverpool, Manchester and York and partners from Public Health England (PHE) and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), are conducting an independent environmental baseline monitoring programme near Kirby Misperton, North Yorkshire and Little Plumpton, Lancashire. These are areas where planning permission has been granted for hydraulic fracturing. The monitoring allows the characterisation of the environmental baseline before any hydraulic fracturing and gas exploration or production takes place in the event that planning permission is granted. The investigations are independent of any monitoring carried out by the industry or the regulators, and information collected from the programme will be made freely available to the public. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you use these data, please note the requirement to acknowledge use. Use of data and information from the project: "Science-based environmental baseline monitoring associated with shale gas development in the Vale of Pickering, Yorkshire (including supplementary air quality monitoring in Lancashire)", led by the British Geological Survey Permission for reproduction of data accessed from the CEDA website is granted subject to inclusion of the following acknowledgement: "These data were produced by the Universities of Manchester and York (National Centre for Atmospheric Science) in a collaboration with the British Geological Survey and partners from the Universities of Birmingham, Bristol and Liverpool and Public Health England, undertaking a project grant-funded by the Department for Energy & Climate Change (DECC), 2015-2016. " ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

This dataset contains carbon dioxide and methane measurements from the Little Plumpton site. British Geological Survey (BGS), the universities of Birmingham, Bristol, Liverpool, Manchester and York and partners from Public Health England (PHE) and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), are conducting an independent environmental baseline monitoring programme near Kirby Misperton, North Yorkshire and Little Plumpton, Lancashire. These are areas where planning permission has been granted for hydraulic fracturing.” The monitoring allows the characterisation of the environmental baseline before any hydraulic fracturing and gas exploration or production takes place in the event that planning permission is granted. The investigations are independent of any monitoring carried out by the industry or the regulators, and information collected from the programme will be made freely available to the public. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you use these data, please note the requirement to acknowledge use. Use of data and information from the project: "Science-based environmental baseline monitoring associated with shale gas development in the Vale of Pickering, Yorkshire (including supplementary air quality monitoring in Lancashire)", led by the British Geological Survey Permission for reproduction of data accessed from the CEDA website is granted subject to inclusion of the following acknowledgement: "These data were produced by the Universities of Manchester and York (National Centre for Atmospheric Science) in a collaboration with the British Geological Survey and partners from the Universities of Birmingham, Bristol and Liverpool and Public Health England, undertaking a project grant-funded by the Department for Energy & Climate Change (DECC), 2015-2016. " ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Profiles of greenhouse gases CO, CO2 and CH4 taken on board a small aircraft descending in a spiral from approximately 4,420m to about 300m a.s.l. (as close to the forest canopy as possible). Samples were taken by semi-automatically filling 12 (for the Tabatinga (TAB 69.7W, 6.0S), Alta Floresta (ALF 56.7W, 8.9S) and Rio Branco (RBA 67.9W, 9.3S) sites) and 17 (for the Santarem (SAN 65.0W, 2.9S) site) 0.7-litre flasks controlled from a microprocessor and contained in one suitcase. The profiles were taken frequently throughout the measurement campaign (2010-2012) between 12:00 and 13:00 local time - at which time, the boundary layer is close to being fully developed. Once a vertical profile had been sampled (one suitcase filled) it was analysed at the IPEN Atmospheric Chemistry Laboratory in Sao Paulo, using a replica of the NOAA/ ESRL trace gas analysis system.

This dataset contains air sample measurements of isotopic d13C methane. The measurements were collected using regular flask samples around Zambia. The samples were analysed Royal Holloway University of London using continuous flow gas chromatography/isotope ratio mass spectrometry (CF-GC/IRMS). These data were collected as part of the ZWAMPS: Quantifying methane emissions in remote tropical settings: a new 3D approach project funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) NE/S00159X/1.

This dataset contains global removal methane simulation measurements from the UK Earth system models (UKESM1) model using UK Chemistry and Aerosol (UKCA) coupled with Joint UK Land Environment Simulator (JULES) and Model of Ecosystem Dynamics, nutrient Utilisation, Sequestrationand Acidification (MEDUSA). Using UKESM1, a series of simulations of methane removal were run until 2100. The measurements include globally averaged data for methane emissions, surface temperature, and surface ozone at a monthly time period. This was completed using the new emissions-driven configuration of UKESM1. Model resolution is N96L85-ORCA1 with 85 vertical levels. Wetland methane emissions are interactively coupled to UKCA. (More details available in Sellar et al 2019 and Folberth et al 2021). The different columns are different simulations. These can be broken down into two broad categories: those based on SSP1-2.6 and those based on SSP3-7.0. For each SSP, we created a set of methane removal simulations with the modified prescribed methane emissions shown in the corresponding columns. These were for the base SSP, a series of different removal amounts (0.25, 0.5, 0.75, 1, 1.5, and 2.0 x the removal in SSP3-7.0LowCH4) and a series of different timings for the start of removal (2020, 2030, 2040, 2050). For each simulations, global means surface temperature and ozone are gathered in this data. Location extent is full global average.

'Amazonian peatlands - A potentially important but poorly characterised source of atmospheric methane and nitrous oxide' was a NERC (Natural Environment Research Council) funded project from 2013-2014 with the following grant reference: NE/I015469/2. This dataset collection contains measurements from field sampling of soil-atmosphere fluxes concentrated on 4 dominant vegetation types in the lowland tropical peatland forests of the Pastaza-Marañón foreland basin. Vegetation types included; forested vegetation, forested [short pole] vegetation, Mauritia flexuosa-dominated palm swamp, and mixed palm swamp. Greenhouse gas (GHG) fluxes were captured from both floodplain systems and nutrient-poor bogs in order to account for underlying differences in biogeochemistry that may arise from variations in hydrology. Sampling was conducted during four field campaigns (two wet season, two dry season) over a 27-month period, extending from February 2012 to May 2014.

'Are tropical uplands regional hotspots for methane and nitrous oxide?' was a NERC (Natural Environment Research Council) funded project from 2010-2015 with the following grant references NE/H007849/1, NE/H006753/1 and NE/H006583/2. This dataset collection contains in-situ ground based soil-atmosphere flux and soil condition measurements from 4 different ecosystems located in the Peruvian Andes over ~2.5 years between 2010-2013. The ecosystems included upper montane forest (Wayqecha), lower montane forest (San Pedro), premontane forest (Villa Carmen) and grassland sites. At present, data are only available for 3 ecosystems; Wayqecha, San Pedro and Villa Carman. However, the grassland dataset will follow shortly along with some model output.

The research team collected data on soil-atmosphere exchange of trace gases and environmental variables during four field campaigns (two wet seasons, two dry seasons) the lowland tropical peatland forests of the Pastaza-Marañón foreland basin in Peru. The campaigns took place over a 27 month period, extending from February 2012 to May 2014. This dataset contains measurements from field sampling of soil-atmosphere fluxes concentrated on 4 dominant vegetation types in the lowland tropical peatland forests of the Pastaza-Marañón foreland basin. Vegetation types included; forested vegetation, forested [short pole] vegetation, Mauritia flexuosa-dominated palm swamp, and mixed palm swamp. They were measured at 5 different sites in Peru including; Buena Vista, Miraflores, San Jorge, Quistococha, and Charo. Greenhouse gas (GHG) fluxes were captured from both floodplain systems and nutrient-poor bogs in order to account for underlying differences in biogeochemistry that may arise from variations in hydrology. Parameters include methane and nitrous oxide fluxes, air/soil temperatures, soil pH, soil electrical conductivity, soil dissolved oxygen content, and water table depth. See documentation and data lineage for data quality. These data were collected in support of the NERC project: Amazonian peatlands - A potentially important but poorly characterised source of atmospheric methane and nitrous oxide (NE/I015469/2)