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 …

Monitoring and research on environmental impacts related to marine natural gas hydrates: Review and future perspective

L Liu, BJ Ryu, Z Sun, N Wu, H Cao, W Geng… - Journal of Natural Gas …, 2019 - Elsevier
In response to the accelerating processes of marine natural gas hydrate exploration and gas
production from hydrate-bearing sediments, their potential impacts on the environment have …

Gas hydrate dissociation linked to contemporary ocean warming in the southern hemisphere

M Ketzer, D Praeg, LF Rodrigues, A Augustin… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Ocean warming related to climate change has been proposed to cause the dissociation of
gas hydrate deposits and methane leakage on the seafloor. This process occurs in places …

Shipborne eddy covariance observations of methane fluxes constrain Arctic sea emissions

BF Thornton, J Prytherch, K Andersson, IM Brooks… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
We demonstrate direct eddy covariance (EC) observations of methane (CH4) fluxes
between the sea and atmosphere from an icebreaker in the eastern Arctic Ocean. EC …

Methane seeps on the outer shelf of the Laptev Sea: characteristic features, structural control, and benthic fauna

B Baranov, S Galkin, A Vedenin, K Dozorova… - Geo-Marine Letters, 2020 - Springer
Two areas with cold methane seeps on the outer shelf of the Laptev Sea were studied by
two interdisciplinary expeditions onboard the RV Akademik Mstislav Keldysh in August …

Potential surprises–compound extremes and tipping elements

R Kopp, DR Easterling, T Hall, K Hayhoe, R Horton… - 2017 - digitalcommons.unl.edu
Positive feedbacks (self-reinforcing cycles) within the climate system have the potential to
accelerate human-induced climate change and even shift the Earth's climate system, in part …

Chemosynthetic and photosynthetic trophic support from cold seeps in Arctic benthic communities

EKL Åström, BA Bluhm, TL Rasmussen - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Benthic communities below the photic zone are largely reliant on the export of surface-water
primary production and the flux of partially degraded organic matter to the seabed, ie …

In-situ temperatures and thermal properties of the East Siberian Arctic shelf sediments: Key input for understanding the dynamics of subsea permafrost

E Chuvilin, B Bukhanov, A Yurchenko… - Marine and Petroleum …, 2022 - Elsevier
Significant reserves of methane (CH 4) are held in the Arctic shelf, but the release of CH 4 to
the overlying ocean and, subsequently, to the atmosphere has been believed to be …

Cold seeps in a warming Arctic: Insights for benthic ecology

EKL Åström, A Sen, ML Carroll… - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Cold-seep benthic communities in the Arctic exist at the nexus of two extreme environments;
one reflecting the harsh physical extremes of the Arctic environment and another reflecting …

The onset of the Messinian Salinity Crisis in the central Mediterranean recorded by pre‐salt carbonate/evaporite deposition

M Borrelli, E Perri, S Critelli, L Gindre‐Chanu - Sedimentology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Calcare di Base is a carbonate/evaporitic unit formed before the deposition of
the massive halite bodies in the main depozones of the Mediterranean region, and has been …