Methane data collected in the 36th CHINARE cruise during 2019-2020

• Main Author: Ye, Wangwang
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: Zenodo 2022
• Subjects: Methane; Ross Sea; Southern Ocean; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7063261

Methane (CH 4 ) is one of the important greenhouse gases. CH 4 dry mole fractions in the atmosphere have increased continuously since the onset of the industrial revolution, contributing to more than 20% of the anthropogenic radiative forcing in the lower atmosphere since 1750. In addition, the ice-covered parts of the Antarctic are now a reservoir of organic carbon, suggesting that the Antarctic ice sheet may be a neglected but essential component of the global CH 4 budget. Seawater samples for CH 4 analysis were collected onboard R/V “Xuelong 2” during the 36th Chinese Antarctic Research Expedition (CHINARE) to the Ross Sea from 3–6 January 2020. 1. Equipment: Name gas chromatography Model: Agilent 7890A Method: purge-and-trap Calibration: CH 4 :N 2 mixtures, China Institute of Metrology 2 Sampling and analysis The samples were collected with a rosette water sampler equipped with Niskin bottles. Briefly, seawater was transferred to biochemical-oxygen-demand bottles (one for each depth), which were stored in the dark at 4 °C with after adding 180 μL of saturated HgCl 2 . 3 Location Ross Sea.