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Thus, improving a priori estimates is a competent way to reduce uncertainties and enhance emission estimates in the sparsely sampled regions. Here, we use a novel way to integrate remote sensing soil freeze\/thaw (F\/T) status from SMOS satellite to better capture the seasonality of methane emissions in the northern high latitude. The SMOS F\/T data provide daily information of soil freezing state in the northern latitudes, and in this study, the data is used to define the cold season in the high latitudes and, thus, improve our knowledge of the seasonal cycle of biospheric methane fluxes. The SMOS F\/T data is implemented to LPX-Bern DYPTOP model estimates and the modified fluxes are used as a biospheric a priori in the inversion model CarbonTracker Europe-CH4. The implementation of the SMOS F\/T soil state is shown to be beneficial in improving the inversion model\u2019s cold season biospheric flux estimates. Our results show that cold season biospheric CH4 emissions in northern high latitudes are approximately 0.60 Tg lower than previously estimated, which corresponds to 17% reduction in the cold season biospheric emissions. This reduction is partly compensated by increased anthropogenic emissions in the same area (0.23 Tg), and the results also indicates that the anthropogenic emissions could have even larger contribution in cold season than estimated here.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs13245059","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,12,14]],"date-time":"2021-12-14T01:22:05Z","timestamp":1639444925000},"page":"5059","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":17,"title":["Utilizing Earth Observations of Soil Freeze\/Thaw Data and Atmospheric Concentrations to Estimate Cold Season Methane Emissions in the Northern High Latitudes"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5867-6295","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Maria","family":"Tenkanen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Climate System Research, Finnish Meteorological Institute, 00560 Helsinki, Finland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9197-3005","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Aki","family":"Tsuruta","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Climate System Research, Finnish Meteorological Institute, 00560 Helsinki, Finland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0321-578X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Kimmo","family":"Rautiainen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Earth Observation Research, Finnish Meteorological Institute, 00560 Helsinki, Finland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3694-2713","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Vilma","family":"Kangasaho","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Climate System Research, Finnish Meteorological Institute, 00560 Helsinki, Finland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8528-510X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Raymond","family":"Ellul","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Atmospheric Research, Department of Geosciences, University of Malta, MSD 2080 Msida, Malta"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3264-7947","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Tuula","family":"Aalto","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Climate System Research, Finnish Meteorological Institute, 00560 Helsinki, Finland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,12,13]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"20438","DOI":"10.1073\/pnas.1916387117","article-title":"Large stocks of peatland carbon and nitrogen are vulnerable to permafrost thaw","volume":"117","author":"Hugelius","year":"2020","journal-title":"Proc. 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