Hydrogen isotopes preclude marine hydrate CH4 emissions at the onset of dansgaard-oeschger events

Science

Volumn 328, Issue 5986, 2010, Pages 1686-1689

  Bock, Michael ^a,b   Schmitt, Jochen ^a,b   Möller, Lars ^b   Spahni, Renato ^a   Blunier, Thomas ^c   Fischer, Hubertus ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN; METHANE;

DANSGAARD-OESCHGER CYCLE; HYDROGEN ISOTOPE; INTERSTADIAL; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; METHANE; NORTHGRIP; PALEOATMOSPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIATION; GREENLAND; KINETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 77954057137     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1187651     Document Type: Article

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32. We thank I. Levin for providing a reference air tank along with calibrated isotope values. We thank T. Sowers and two anonymous reviewers for carefully reviewing the manuscript. Financial support for this study was provided in part by the German Secretary of Education and Research program GEOTECHNOLOGIEN, by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG project MEPHISTO), Schweizerischer Nationalfonds (SNF project primeMETHANE), and the European Research Council advanced grant MATRICs. This work is a contribution to the North-GRIP ice core project, which is directed and organized by the Department of Geophysics at the Niels Bohr Institute for Astronomy, Physics and Geophysics, University of Copenhagen. It is supported by funding agencies in Denmark (SNF), Belgium (FNRS-CFB), France (IFRTP and INSU/CNRS), Germany (AWI), Iceland (Rannls), Japan (MEXT), Sweden (SPRS), Switzerland (SNF), and the United States (NSF).