Nature Communications (Jun 2017)

Seepage from an arctic shallow marine gas hydrate reservoir is insensitive to momentary ocean warming

  • Wei-Li Hong,
  • Marta E. Torres,
  • JoLynn Carroll,
  • Antoine Crémière,
  • Giuliana Panieri,
  • Haoyi Yao,
  • Pavel Serov

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15745
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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The degree to which warming bottom waters will destabilize shallow gas hydrate reservoirs in the Arctic remains unclear. Here, Honget al. observe and model porewater profiles from a gas-hydrate-bearing system south of Spitsbergen, and conclude episodic emissions are not warming induced.