Methane bubbles in Lake Kinneret: Quantification and temporal and spatial heterogeneity

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1030-1036

  Ostrovsky, Ilia ^a  

^a The Yigal Allon Kinneret Limnological Laboratory   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUBBLE; ECHO SOUNDER; FISH; LAKE; METHANE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ISRAEL; LAKE KINNERET;

EID: 0038191156     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2003.48.3.1030     Document Type: Article

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