Ocean oxygen depletion due to decomposition of submarine methane hydrate

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 14, 2014, Pages 5075-5083

  Yamamoto, Akitomo ^a,b   Yamanaka, Yasuhiro ^b   Oka, Akira ^a   Abe Ouchi, Ayako ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

clathrate; climate change; ocean oxygen depletion; tipping points

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; HYDRATION; MARINE BIOLOGY; METHANE; OCEANOGRAPHY; OXYGEN; SUBMARINES;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CLATHRATE; HYDRATE DECOMPOSITION; MARINE ORGANISMS; OXYGEN DEPLETION; OXYGEN SOLUBILITY; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; TIPPING POINT;

GAS HYDRATES;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); HYDRATION; METHANE; OXIDATION; OXYGEN; SEAWATER; TIMESCALE; UNDERWATER ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 84904525195     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL060483     Document Type: Article

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