Considerable methane fluxes to the atmosphere from hydrocarbon seeps in the Gulf of Mexico

2009/07/05 by E. A. Solomon, Evan A. Solomon, Miriam Kastner +2 · 1 voice · 3 citations
Environmental Science · #Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena #Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics #Oil Spill Detection and Mitigation

paper · doi:10.1038/ngeo574

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Discussions

• Here's an interesting question (with major climate change implications): When hydrates dissociate as water warms, how much of that CH4 reaches the atmosphere? The answer, as usual, is "it depends", bu [bsky, 30 points, 1 comments]