Table 2. Prior and Posterior Emissions From September to November (Tg CH4) and Uncertainty Reduction for Selected Regions (see Figure 1) and for Inversion Scenarios I1 to I11 as described in Table 1

		I1	I2	I3	I4	I5	I6	I7	I8	I9	I10	I11
Globe	prior	127.9	127.9	129.3	127.9	127.9	127.9	127.9	127.9	127.9	127.9	127.9
	posterior	128.4	127.6	130.4	136.2	127.9	129.8	132.8	128.0	130.4	128.1	119.0
	uncertainty reduction	0.66	0.51	0.60	0.64	0.61	0.66	0.80	0.66	0.67	0.70	0.53
EXNH	prior	47.9	47.9	45.2	47.9	47.9	47.9	47.9	47.9	47.9	47.9	47.9
	posterior	33.8	38.9	34.3	33.7	34.8	32.7	32.0	33.7	33.7	28.8	34.0
	uncertainty reduction	0.84	0.73	0.61	0.85	0.85	0.92	0.83	0.84	0.80	0.74	0.68
Tropical South America	prior	10.0	10.0	10.7	10.0	10.0	10.0	10.0	10.0	10.0	10.0	10.0
	posterior	21.1	13.2	20.9	23.5	19.9	21.5	21.7	21.2	21.6	21.5	12.5
	uncertainty reduction	0.67	0.19	0.46	0.58	0.65	0.65	0.75	0.65	0.60	0.66	0.13
Tropical Africa	prior	8.8	8.8	9.8	8.8	8.8	8.8	8.8	8.8	8.8	8.8	8.8
	posterior	19.1	14.1	19.8	21.2	18.6	20.0	21.0	19.2	19.3	21.3	13.7
	uncertainty reduction	0.61	0.20	0.65	0.60	0.61	0.63	0.70	0.61	0.62	0.66	0.15
South Asia	prior	40.8	40.8	42.0	40.8	40.8	40.8	40.8	40.8	40.8	40.8	40.8
	posterior	24.4	37.5	24.8	24.0	25.6	24.6	24.4	24.2	24.7	25.7	34.8
	uncertainty reduction	0.81	0.31	0.83	0.82	0.77	0.78	0.83	0.81	0.80	0.83	0.32