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. Wetlands are the single largest natural source of methane(CH4), a powerful greenhouse gas affecting the global climate. In turn, wetland CH4 emissions are sensitive to changes in climate conditions such as temperature and precipitation shifts. However, biogeochemical processes regulating wetland CH4 emissions (namely microbial production and oxidation of CH4) are not routinely included in fully coupled Earthsystem models that simulate feedbacks between the physical climate, thecarbon cycle, and other biogeochemical cycles. This paper introduces aprocess-based wetland CH4 model (WETMETH) developed for implementationin Earth system models and currently embedded in an Earth system model ofintermediate complexity. Here, we (i) describe the wetland CH4 model,(ii) evaluate the model performance against available datasets and estimates from the literature, and (iii) analyze the model sensitivity to perturbations ofpoorly constrained parameters. Historical simulations show that WETMETH iscapable of reproducing mean annual emissions consistent with present-dayestimates across spatial scales. For the 2008–2017 decade, the modelsimulates global mean wetland emissions of 158.6 Tg CH4 yr−1, of which 33.1 Tg CH4 yr−1 is from wetlands north of 45∘ N.WETMETH is highly sensitive to parameters for the microbial oxidation ofCH4, which is the least constrained process in the literature.

WETMETH 1.0: a new wetland methane model for implementation in Earth system models