Underway CH4 measurements during POSEIDON cruises POS320/1 and POS348

• Main Authors: Kock, Annette, Gebhardt, Sarah, Bange, Hermann Werner
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2008
• Subjects: 06PO20050321; CT; Northeast Atlantic; POS320/1; POS320/1-track; POS348; POS348-track; Poseidon; SOPRAN; Surface Ocean Processes in the Anthropocene; Tropical NE Atlantic; Underway cruise track measurements
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.849238; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.849238

Coastal upwelling regions have been identified as sites of enhanced CH4 emissions to the atmosphere. The coastal upwelling area off Mauritania (NW Africa) is one of the most biologically productive regions of the world's ocean but its CH4 emissions have not been quantified so far. More than 100...