Interpreting temperature-strain data from mesoscale clathrate experiments

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 62-67

  Leeman, J R ^a,b   Rawn, C J ^b   Ulrich, S ^b   Elwood Madden, M ^a,b   Phelps, T J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed sensing; Fiber Bragg gratings; Gas hydrate; Seafloor stability; Temperature strain data

Indexed keywords

ARC LENGTH; ARCHIMEDEAN SPIRAL; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; DATA PROCESSING TECHNIQUES; DISSOCIATION PATHWAYS; DISTRIBUTED SENSING; ENERGY PRODUCTIONS; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; HEAT OF REACTION; HETEROGENEOUS SEDIMENTS; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; HYDRATE FORMATION; LARGE AMOUNTS OF DATA; MESOSCALE; NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS; NATURAL NEIGHBOR INTERPOLATION; NEWTON'S METHODS; OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY; POLAR PLOT; PROCESS SIMULATORS; RELATIVE TEMPERATURES; SEA FLOOR; SEAFLOOR STABILITY; SPACE AND TIME; SPLIT COLUMN; TEMPERATURE-STRAIN DATA;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA HANDLING; DISSOCIATION; EXPERIMENTS; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; HYDRATION; NEWTON-RAPHSON METHOD; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SENSORS; SILT;

GAS HYDRATES;

ALGORITHM; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GAS HYDRATE; SEAFLOOR; SOFTWARE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STRAIN; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

EID: 82455167833     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2011.05.004     Document Type: Article

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