Long-term variations of the mole fraction and carbon isotope ratio of atmospheric methane observed at Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard from 1996 to 2013Footnote

The data presented in this paper are downloadable from the website (http://caos.sakura.ne.jp/tgr/data/en).

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