Degrading Offshore Permafrost and Arctic Hydrates as a Current and Potential Source of Methane on the Siberian Arctic Shelf

• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Arctic Data Center
• Subjects: carbon; methane release feedbacks; biogeochemistry; Siberian Arctic; subsea permafrost; permafrost thawing; permafrost drilling; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Buor-Khaya; East Siberian Shelf; Khaya; Laptev Sea; Sergienko; Global warming; laptev; lena river; permafrost
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/adb3807e-e55c-493a-9a49-c14a7df7ec31

The Arctic region contains a huge amount of organic carbon, referred to commonly as the “Arctic Carbon Hyper Pool”, within the Arctic Ocean sedimentary basin. The Russian Arctic shelf acts as an estuary of the Great Siberian Rivers. This area has the highest documented rates of coastal sedimentation...