A water column study of methane around gas flares located at the West Spitsbergen continental margin

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 72, Issue , 2014, Pages 107-118

  Gentz, Torben ^a   Damm, Ellen ^a   Schneider von Deimling, Jens ^b   Mau, Susan ^a   McGinnis, Daniel Frank ^c,d   Schlüter, Michael ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF FRESHWATER ECOLOGY AND INLAND FISHERIES   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Gas bubbles; Gas hydrate; Isotopic ratio; Methane pathways; Oxidation rates; Under water mass spectrometry

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; BOTTOM WATER; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DISSOLUTION; GAS HYDRATE; GLOBAL WARMING; ISOTOPIC RATIO; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METHANE; OXIDATION; PYCNOCLINE; SEAFLOOR; SEEPAGE; SURFACE WATER; VERTICAL MIXING; WATER COLUMN; WATER DEPTH;

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

EID: 84890314277     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2013.07.013     Document Type: Article

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