Contribution of oceanic gas hydrate dissociation to the formation of Arctic Ocean methane plumes

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 116, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Reagan, Matthew T ^a   Moridis, George J ^a   Elliott, Scott M ^b   Maltrud, Mathew ^b  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEPOSITS; DISSOCIATION; GREENHOUSE GASES; HYDRATION; METHANE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SLOPE STABILITY;

ARCTIC OCEAN; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; GAS HYDRATE STABILITY ZONES; GAS RELEASE; HYDRATE ACCUMULATIONS; HYDRATE DISSOCIATION; METHANE GAS; METHANE PLUMES; OCEAN TEMPERATURE; PARAMETRIC SENSITIVITY; SEA FLOOR; SVALBARD; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; TIME-SCALES;

GAS HYDRATES;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; DECADAL VARIATION; GAS HYDRATE; GAS TRANSPORT; GREENHOUSE GAS; METHANE; PLUME; SATURATION; SEAFLOOR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TIMESCALE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WARMING; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 80053041201     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JC007189     Document Type: Article

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