Atmospheric impacts and ice core imprints of a methane pulse from clathrates

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 349-350, Issue , 2012, Pages 98-108

  Bock, Josué ^a   Martinerie, Patricia ^a   Witrant, Emmanuel ^b   Chappellaz, JérÔme ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DE GLACIOLOGIE ET GÉOPHYSIQUE DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b GIPSA LAB   (France)

Author keywords

Clathrate; Firn; Greenhouse gas; Ice core; Isotopic ratio; Methane

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATES; AIR BUBBLES; AMPLITUDE RATIOS; ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC WARMING; ATMOSPHERIC IMPACT; ATMOSPHERIC LIFETIME; CLATHRATE; CLATHRATES; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; COMBINED EFFECT; EMISSION CHARACTERISTICS; FIRN; GREENLAND; ICE CORE; ICE CORE RECORDS; ISOTOPIC RATIOS; ISOTOPIC SIGNATURES; ISOTOPOLOGUES; METHANE HYDRATES; OH RADICAL; POLAR ICE SHEETS; POSITIVE EXCURSION; PRE-INDUSTRIAL; SHORT TIME SCALE; SNOW ACCUMULATION; TIME MODEL; TIME-SCALES; TRACE GAS;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CORE DRILLING; DEGASSING; FREE RADICALS; GAS HYDRATES; GREENHOUSE GASES; INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS; METHANE;

ICE;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; CLATHRATE; DEGASSING; FIRN; FRACTIONATION; HYDROXYL RADICAL; ICE CORE; ISOTOPIC RATIO; METHANE; TRACE GAS; WARMING;

EID: 84864330030     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.06.052     Document Type: Article

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