Sea ice in the Arctic Ocean: Role of shielding and consumption of methane

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 67, Issue , 2013, Pages 8-13

  He, Xin ^a   Sun, Liguang ^a   Xie, Zhouqing ^a   Huang, Wen ^a   Long, Nanye ^a   Li, Zheng ^a   Xing, Guangxi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Central Arctic Ocean; Methane; Sea ice; Under ice water

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC OCEAN; METHANE EMISSIONS; METHANE FLUXES; METHANE STORAGE; NEGATIVE FLUXES; STATIC CHAMBER TECHNIQUE;

GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE; SHIELDING;

METHANE;

METHANE;

GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GAS; METHANE; OXIDATION; SEA ICE;

AIR POLLUTION; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; OXIDATION; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; SEA ICE;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84869221067     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2012.10.029     Document Type: Article

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