Review of methane mitigation technologies with application to rapid release of methane from the arctic

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 6455-6469

  Stolaroff, Joshuah K ^a   Bhattacharyya, Subarna ^a   Smith, Clara A ^a   Bourcier, William L ^a   Cameron Smith, Philip J ^a   Aines, Roger D ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL SOILS; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCES; EMISSIONS CONTROL; GAS STREAMS; METHANE MITIGATION; METHANE STREAM; METHANOTROPHS; MITIGATION METHODS; MITIGATION STRATEGY; RAPID RELEASE; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; RICE PADDY;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GREENHOUSE GASES; PERMAFROST; SEDIMENTS; WETLANDS;

METHANE;

CARBON DIOXIDE; METHANE;

AGRICULTURAL SOIL; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EMISSION CONTROL; GREENHOUSE GAS; MAGNITUDE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; METHANE; PADDY FIELD; PERMAFROST; THAWING; WETLAND;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARCTIC; COMBUSTION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DILUTION; ECOLOGY; FOSSIL; GAS; GREENHOUSE GAS; LAKE; METHANOGEN; METHANOTROPH; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SEA; SEDIMENT; WETLAND;

ARCTIC REGIONS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; METHANE; WETLANDS;

ARCTIC;

EID: 84862515336     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es204686w     Document Type: Review

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