Oceanography and methane of waters from the Lena Delta

• Main Author: Bussmann, Ingeborg
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2013
• Subjects: AWI_Coast; Coastal Ecology @ AWI; Buor-Khaya; Khaya; Laptev Sea; laptev; lena delta; lena river; permafrost
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.817330; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.817330

The Lena River is one of the largest Russian rivers draining into the Laptev Sea. The permafrost areas surrounding the Lena are predicted to thaw at increasing rates due to global temperature increases. With this thawing, large amounts of carbon – either organic or in the gaseous forms carbon dioxid...