Collaborative Research: The East Siberian Arctic Shelf as a Source of Atmospheric Methane: First Approach to Quantitative Assessment

• Main Author: Natalia Shakhova
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Arctic Data Center 2015
• Subjects: ANS; Arctic; Collaborative Research: The East Siberian Arctic Shelf as a Source of Atmospheric Methane: First Approach to Quantitative Assessment; Global warming; Ice; permafrost
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/urn:uuid:a8197e70-2f51-4d23-bcd9-6624750471aa

Six investigators from three institutions propose to study methane release over the East Siberian Arctic shelf (ESAS), the largest (about 10% of the world ocean shelf area) and the shallowest (mean depth less than 50 m) continental shelf of the world ocean. The ESAS stores the world?s largest hydroc...