Enhancing surface methane fluxes from an oligotrophic lake: Exploring the microbubble hypothesis

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 873-880

  McGinnis, Daniel F ^a,b   Kirillin, Georgiy ^a   Tang, Kam W ^c   Flury, Sabine ^a   Bodmer, Pascal ^a   Engelhardt, Christof ^a   Casper, Peter ^a   Grossart, Hans Peter ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; GASES; GREENHOUSE GASES; LAKES; METHANE;

AQUATIC SYSTEM; BUBBLE ENTRAINMENT; GAS SUPERSATURATION; INLAND WATERS; METHANE FLUXES; OLIGOTROPHIC LAKES; SURFACE FLUX; SURFACE LAYERS;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

CARBON DIOXIDE; METHANE; GAS; WATER POLLUTANT;

CARBON FLUX; GREENHOUSE GAS; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; METHANE; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; SOLUBILITY; SUPERSATURATION; SURFACE LAYER;

ARTICLE; CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAS DIFFUSION; LAKE; MICROBUBBLE; SOLUBILITY; SURFACE PROPERTY; VELOCITY; WIND; ANALYSIS; ATMOSPHERE; CARBON CYCLE; CHEMISTRY; GAS; GERMANY; WATER POLLUTANT;

BRANDENBURG [GERMANY]; GERMANY; STECHLINSEE;

ATMOSPHERE; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; GASES; GERMANY; LAKES; METHANE; MICROBUBBLES; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84921768663     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es503385d     Document Type: Article

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