Pathways of methane in seawater: Plume spreading in an Arctic shelf environment (SW-Spitsbergen)

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 25, Issue 12-13, 2005, Pages 1453-1472

  Damm, Ellen ^a   Mackensen, Andreas ^a   Budéus, Gereon ^a   Faber, Eckhard ^b   Hanfland, Claudia ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR GEOSCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES BGR   (Germany)

Author keywords

13CCH4; 18O H2O; 222Rn; Methane; Northern polar shelf and slope; Seawater; Spitsbergen

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL SHELF; METHANE; PLUME; SEAWATER;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN; WORLD;

EID: 22344446862     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2005.03.003     Document Type: Article

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