Deglacial bottom water warming intensified Arctic methane seepage in the NW Barents Sea

Phases of high bottom water temperature in the northwestern Barents Sea caused repeated destabilization of methane gas hydrates since the last glacial, according to a foraminifera Mg/Ca bottom water temperature record and hydrate stability modelling

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Naima El bani Altuna, Tine Lander Rasmussen, Mohamed Mahmoud Ezat, Sunil Vadakkepuliyambatta, Jeroen Groeneveld, Mervyn Greaves
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature 2021-09-01
Series:Communications Earth & Environment
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-021-00264-x