Variability of Acoustically Evidenced Methane Bubble Emissions Offshore Western Svalbard
Accepted for publication in Geophysical Research Letters; available at https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL082750. @2019 American Geophysical Union. Further reproduction or electronic distribution is not permitted. Large reservoirs of methane present in Arctic marine sediments are susceptible to rapid war...
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ftunivtroemsoe:oai:munin.uit.no:10037/16095 2023-05-15T14:27:34+02:00 Variability of Acoustically Evidenced Methane Bubble Emissions Offshore Western Svalbard Veloso-Alarcon, Mario E. Jansson, Pär De Batist, Marc Minshull, Timothy A. Westbrook, Graham K. Pälike, Heiko Bünz, Stefan Wright, Ian Greinert, Jens 2019-07-22 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/16095 https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL082750 eng eng American Geophysical Union (AGU) Geophysical Research Letters Norges forskningsråd: 223259 EU: VECCEU COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology): ES0902 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/RCN/SFF/223259/Norway/Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate/CAGE/ Veloso-Alarcon, M.E., Jansson, P., De Batist, M., Minshull, T.A., Westbrook, G.K., Pälike, H. . Greinert, J. (2019). Variability of Acoustically Evidenced Methane Bubble Emissions Offshore Western Svalbard. Geophysical Research Letters, 46 (15), 9072-9081. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL082750 FRIDAID 1715207 doi:10.1029/2019GL082750 0094-8276 1944-8007 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/16095 openAccess VDP::Mathematics and natural science: 400::Geosciences: 450 VDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Geofag: 450 methane bubbles hydracoustics Svalbard flux temporal variability Journal article Tidsskriftartikkel Peer reviewed 2019 ftunivtroemsoe https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL082750 2021-06-25T17:56:49Z Accepted for publication in Geophysical Research Letters; available at https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL082750. @2019 American Geophysical Union. Further reproduction or electronic distribution is not permitted. Large reservoirs of methane present in Arctic marine sediments are susceptible to rapid warming, promoting increasing methane emissions. Gas bubbles in the water column can be detected, and flow rates can be quantified using hydroacoustic survey methods, making it possible to monitor spatiotemporal variability. We present methane (CH 4 ) bubble flow rates derived from hydroacoustic data sets acquired during 11 research expeditions to the western Svalbard continental margin (2008–2014). Three seepage areas emit in total 725–1,125 t CH 4 /year, and bubble fluxes are up to 2 kg·m −2 ·year −1 . Bubble fluxes vary between different surveys, but no clear trend can be identified. Flux variability analyses suggest that two areas are geologically interconnected, displaying alternating flow changes. Spatial migration of bubble seepage was observed to follow seasonal changes in the theoretical landward limit of the hydrate stability zone, suggesting that formation/dissociation of shallow hydrates, modulated by bottom water temperatures, influences seafloor bubble release. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Svalbard University of Tromsø: Munin Open Research Archive Arctic Svalbard Geophysical Research Letters 46 15 9072 9081 |
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VDP::Mathematics and natural science: 400::Geosciences: 450 VDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Geofag: 450 methane bubbles hydracoustics Svalbard flux temporal variability Veloso-Alarcon, Mario E. Jansson, Pär De Batist, Marc Minshull, Timothy A. Westbrook, Graham K. Pälike, Heiko Bünz, Stefan Wright, Ian Greinert, Jens Variability of Acoustically Evidenced Methane Bubble Emissions Offshore Western Svalbard |
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Accepted for publication in Geophysical Research Letters; available at https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL082750. @2019 American Geophysical Union. Further reproduction or electronic distribution is not permitted. Large reservoirs of methane present in Arctic marine sediments are susceptible to rapid warming, promoting increasing methane emissions. Gas bubbles in the water column can be detected, and flow rates can be quantified using hydroacoustic survey methods, making it possible to monitor spatiotemporal variability. We present methane (CH 4 ) bubble flow rates derived from hydroacoustic data sets acquired during 11 research expeditions to the western Svalbard continental margin (2008–2014). Three seepage areas emit in total 725–1,125 t CH 4 /year, and bubble fluxes are up to 2 kg·m −2 ·year −1 . Bubble fluxes vary between different surveys, but no clear trend can be identified. Flux variability analyses suggest that two areas are geologically interconnected, displaying alternating flow changes. Spatial migration of bubble seepage was observed to follow seasonal changes in the theoretical landward limit of the hydrate stability zone, suggesting that formation/dissociation of shallow hydrates, modulated by bottom water temperatures, influences seafloor bubble release. |
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Variability of Acoustically Evidenced Methane Bubble Emissions Offshore Western Svalbard |
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Variability of Acoustically Evidenced Methane Bubble Emissions Offshore Western Svalbard |
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Variability of Acoustically Evidenced Methane Bubble Emissions Offshore Western Svalbard |
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Variability of Acoustically Evidenced Methane Bubble Emissions Offshore Western Svalbard |
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Variability of Acoustically Evidenced Methane Bubble Emissions Offshore Western Svalbard |
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variability of acoustically evidenced methane bubble emissions offshore western svalbard |
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