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Marielle Saunois is affiliated with Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University in France. Their research spans mainly across Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant work also conducted in related subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Mechanics of Materials, Environmental Chemistry, and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment.

The scientist's work prominently focuses on topics within Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Climate Change Policy and Economics, and Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies.

Notable recent publications include:

  • The Global Methane Budget 2000-2017, 2020, NOAA Institutional Repository
  • Increasing anthropogenic methane emissions arise equally from agricultural and fossil fuel sources, 2020, Environmental Research Letters
  • Wetland emission and atmospheric sink changes explain methane growth in 2020, 2022, Nature
  • Comparing national greenhouse gas budgets reported in UNFCCC inventories against atmospheric inversions, 2022, Earth system science data
  • A comprehensive and synthetic dataset for global, regional, and national greenhouse gas emissions by sector 1970-2018 with an extension to 2019, 2021, Earth system science data

Marielle Saunois frequently collaborates with other researchers. Frequent co-authors include Philippe Ciais, Benjamin Poulter, Josep G. Canadell, Hanqin Tian, and Prabir K. Patra.

In terms of publication venues, Saunois has contributed extensively to Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Atmospheric chemistry and physics, Earth system science data, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, and Geoscientific model development.

Best Publications

  • The global methane budget 2000–2017

    Marielle Saunois;Ann R. Stavert;Ben Poulter;Philippe Bousquet

  • Three decades of global methane sources and sinks

    Stefanie Kirschke;Philippe Bousquet;Philippe Ciais;Marielle Saunois

  • The global methane budget 2000–2012

    Marielle Saunois;Philippe Bousquet;Ben Poulter;Anna Peregon

  • Global Carbon and other Biogeochemical Cycles and Feedbacks

    Josep G. Canadell;Pedro M.S. Monteiro;Marcos H. Costa;Leticia Cotrim Da Cunha

  • The terrestrial biosphere as a net source of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere

    Hanqin Tian;Chaoqun Lu;Chaoqun Lu;Philippe Ciais;Anna M. Michalak

  • Increasing anthropogenic methane emissions arise equally from agricultural and fossil fuel sources

    Robert B. Jackson;Marielle Saunois;Philippe Bousquet;Josep G. Canadell

  • The growing role of methane in anthropogenic climate change

    M Saunois;R B Jackson;P Bousquet;B Poulter

  • Wetland emission and atmospheric sink changes explain methane growth in 2020.

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  • Global wetland contribution to 2000–2012 atmospheric methane growth rate dynamics

    Benjamin Poulter;Philippe Bousquet;Josep G. Canadell;Philippe Ciais

  • FLUXNET-CH4 Synthesis Activity : Objectives, Observations, and Future Directions

    Sara H. Knox;Robert B. Jackson;Benjamin Poulter;Gavin McNicol

  • A comprehensive and synthetic dataset for global, regional and national greenhouse gas emissions by sector 1970-2018 with an extension to 2019

    Jan C. Minx;William F. Lamb;Robbie M. Andrew;Josep G. Canadell

  • Variability and quasi-decadal changes in the methane budget over the period 2000-2012

    Marielle Saunois;Philippe Bousquet;Ben Poulter;Anna Peregon

  • Inverse modelling of European CH4 emissions during 2006–2012 using different inverse models and reassessed atmospheric observations

    Peter Bergamaschi;Ute Karstens;Ute Karstens;Alistair J. Manning;Marielle Saunois

  • Decadal trends in global CO emissions as seen by MOPITT

    Y. Yin;F. Chevallier;P. Ciais;G. Broquet

  • Technical Note: Ozonesonde climatology between 1995 and 2011: description, evaluation and applications

    S. Tilmes;J.-F. Lamarque;L. K. Emmons;A. Conley

  • Revisiting enteric methane emissions from domestic ruminants and their δ13CCH4 source signature

    Jinfeng Chang;Shushi Peng;Philippe Ciais;Marielle Saunois

  • Regional trends and drivers of the global methane budget

    Ann R Stavert;Marielle Saunois;Josep G Canadell;Benjamin Poulter

  • The formaldehyde budget as seen by a global-scale multi-constraint and multi-species inversion system

    A. Fortems-Cheiney;F. Chevallier;I. Pison;P. Bousquet

  • Impact of Climate Change on the Future Chemical Composition of the Global Troposphere

    Guy P. Brasseur;Martin Schultz;Claire Granier;Marielle Saunois

  • Inter-model comparison of global hydroxyl radical (OH) distributions and their impact on atmospheric methane over the 2000–2016 period

    Yuanhong Zhao;Marielle Saunois;Philippe Bousquet;Xin Lin;Xin Lin

  • Correcting model biases of CO in East Asia: impact on oxidant distributions during KORUS-AQ.

    Benjamin Gaubert;Louisa K. Emmons;Kevin Raeder;Simone Tilmes

  • Tracing biomass burning plumes from the Southern Hemisphere during the AMMA 2006 wet season experiment

    C. H. Mari;G. Cailley;L. Corre;M. Saunois

  • Variability and quasi-decadal changes in the methane budget over the period 2000--2012 (in open review in ACPD) doi: 10.5194/acp-2017-296

    M. Saunois;P. Bousquet;B. Poulter;A. Peregon

  • Global Methane Budget 2000-2012

    M. Saunois;P. Bousquet;B. Poulter;A. Peregon

Frequent Co-Authors

Philippe Bousquet
Philippe Bousquet University of Paris-Saclay
Josep G. Canadell
Josep G. Canadell Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Robert B. Jackson
Robert B. Jackson Stanford University
Prabir K. Patra
Prabir K. Patra Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Edward J. Dlugokencky
Edward J. Dlugokencky National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Peter Bergamaschi
Peter Bergamaschi Heidelberg University
Benjamin Poulter
Benjamin Poulter Goddard Space Flight Center
Hanqin Tian
Hanqin Tian Auburn University
Sander Houweling
Sander Houweling Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Michel Ramonet
Michel Ramonet University of Paris-Saclay

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