Detection and impacts of leakage from sub-seafloor deep geological carbon dioxide storage

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1011-1016

  Blackford, Jerry ^a   Stahl, Henrik ^b   Bull, Jonathan M ^c   Bergès, Benoît J P ^c   Cevatoglu, Melis ^c   Lichtschlag, Anna ^c   Connelly, Douglas ^c   James, Rachael H ^c   Kita, Jun ^d   Long, Dave ^e   Naylor, Mark ^f   Shitashima, Kiminori ^g   Smith, Dave ^e   Taylor, Peter ^b   Wright, Ian ^c   Akhurst, Maxine ^e   Chen, Baixin ^h   Gernon, Tom M ^c   Hauton, Chris ^c   Hayashi, Masatoshi ⁱ   Kaieda, Hideshi ^j   Leighton, Timothy G ^c   Sato, Toru ^k   Sayer, Martin D J ^b   Suzumura, Masahiro ^l   Tait, Karen ^a   Vardy, Mark E ^c   White, Paul R ^c   Widdicombe, Steve ^a   more..

^a PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b SCOTTISH MARINE INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^d RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY FOR THE EARTH   (Japan)

^e BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^g KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ The General Environmental Technos Co Ltd   (Japan)

^j CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY   (Japan)

^k UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^l NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; DETECTION METHOD; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; LEAKAGE; REPOSITORY; SEAFLOOR; UNDERGROUND STORAGE;

EID: 84908542918     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2381     Document Type: Article

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