Report for methane monitoring in Arctic Lakes in Northwest Territories, Canada, August 2015

• Main Author: Beth Orcutt
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Arctic Data Center 2016
• Subjects: methane; Northwest Territories; observatories; Arctic; Mackenzie River; Canada; Inuvik; Aurora Research Institute; Climate change; First Nations; Mackenzie river
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.18739/A20K26B93

The investigators propose to measure methane concentrations in frozen lakes continuously throughout the Arctic winter using autonomous sampling devices, to more thoroughly address the variability in the methane flux from Arctic lakes to the atmosphere. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, the release...