The interaction of climate change and methane hydrates

CD Ruppel, JD Kessler - Reviews of Geophysics, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Gas hydrate, a frozen, naturally‐occurring, and highly‐concentrated form of methane,
sequesters significant carbon in the global system and is stable only over a range of low …

Marine cold seeps: background and recent advances

E Suess - Hydrocarbons, oils and lipids: Diversity, origin …, 2020 - Springer
Marine cold seeps are windows into different depth levels of the submerged geosphere.
Subduction zones and organic-rich passive margins host most of the world's cold seeps. The …

Widespread methane leakage from the sea floor on the northern US Atlantic margin

A Skarke, C Ruppel, M Kodis, D Brothers… - Nature Geoscience, 2014 - nature.com
Methane emissions from the sea floor affect methane inputs into the atmosphere, ocean
acidification and de-oxygenation,, the distribution of chemosynthetic communities and …

A new methodology for quantifying bubble flow rates in deep water using splitbeam echosounders: Examples from the A rctic offshore NW‐S valbard

M Veloso, J Greinert, J Mienert… - Limnology and …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Quantifying marine methane fluxes of free gas (bubbles) from the seafloor into the water
column is of importance for climate related studies, for example, in the Arctic, reliable …

An integrated view of the methane system in the pockmarks at Vestnesa Ridge, 79 N

G Panieri, S Bünz, DJ Fornari, J Escartin, P Serov… - Marine Geology, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The Vestnesa Ridge is a NW-SE trending,~ 100 km-long, 1–2 km-thick contourite
sediment section located in the Arctic Ocean, west of Svalbard, at 79° N. Pockmarks align …

High emissions of carbon dioxide and methane from the coastal Baltic Sea at the end of a summer heat wave

C Humborg, MC Geibel, X Sun, M McCrackin… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The summer heat wave in 2018 led to the highest recorded water temperatures since 1926–
up to 21° C–in bottom coastal waters of the Baltic Sea, with implications for the respiration …

Carbon cycling in the North American coastal ocean: a synthesis

K Fennel, S Alin, L Barbero, W Evans… - …, 2019 - bg.copernicus.org
A quantification of carbon fluxes in the coastal ocean and across its boundaries with the
atmosphere, land, and the open ocean is important for assessing the current state and …

Observations of bubbles in natural seep flares at MC 118 and GC 600 using in situ quantitative imaging

B Wang, SA Socolofsky, JA Breier… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
This paper reports the results of quantitative imaging using a stereoscopic, high‐speed
camera system at two natural gas seep sites in the northern Gulf of Mexico during the Gulf …

Geologically controlled intermittent gas eruption and its impact on bottom water temperature and chemosynthetic communities—A case study in the “HaiMa” cold …

J Wei, J Li, T Wu, W Zhang, J Li, J Wang… - Geological …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In 2018, the Institute of Deep Sea Science and Engineering investigated the “HaiMa” cold
seeps in the northwestern part of the South China Sea using R/V “TanSuoYiHao” with …

Methane release from pingo‐like features across the South Kara Sea shelf, an area of thawing offshore permafrost

P Serov, A Portnov, J Mienert… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The Holocene marine transgression starting at~ 19 ka flooded the Arctic shelves driving
extensive thawing of terrestrial permafrost. It thereby promoted methanogenesis within …