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A wideband acoustic method for direct assessment of bubble-mediated methane flux

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CONTINENTAL SHELF RESEARCH
卷 173, 期 -, 页码 104-115

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PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2018.12.005

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Broadband acoustics; Methane gas bubbles; Bubble fate; Gas flux; SWERUS-C3; East Siberian Arctic Ocean; Ebullition

资金

  1. National Science Foundation [1417789, 1352301]
  2. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration [NA15NOS4000200]
  3. Swedish Research Council [2012-1680]
  4. Russian Government [14, Z50.31.0012/03.19.2014]
  5. Russian Scientific Foundation [15-17-20032, 18-77-10004]
  6. Sloan Foundation Deep Carbon Observatory Project
  7. Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (RAW)
  8. Swedish Polar Research Secretariat
  9. Russian Science Foundation [18-77-10004, 18-17-18003] Funding Source: Russian Science Foundation
  10. Directorate For Geosciences
  11. Division Of Ocean Sciences [1352301] Funding Source: National Science Foundation

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The bubble-mediated transport and eventual fate of methane escaping from the seafloor is of great interest to researchers in many fields. Acoustic systems are frequently used to study gas seep sites, as they provide broad synoptic observations of processes in the water column. However, the visualization and characterization of individual gas bubbles needed for quantitative studies has routinely required the use of optical sensors which offer a limited field of view and require extended amounts of time for deployment and data collection. In this paper, we present an innovative method for studying individual bubbles and estimating gas flux using a calibrated wideband from the Bolin Centre for Climate Research database: http://bolin.su.se/data/.and split-beam echosounder. The extended bandwidth (16 - 26 kHz) affords vertical range resolution of approximately 7.5 cm, allowing for the differentiation of individual bubbles in acoustic data. Split-aperture processing provides phaseangle data used to compensate for transducer beam-pattem effects and to precisely locate bubbles in the transducer field of view. The target strength of individual bubbles is measured and compared to an analytical scattering model to estimate bubble radius, and bubbles are tracked through the water column to estimate rise velocity. The resulting range of bubble radii (0.68-8.40 mm in radius) agrees with those found in other investigations with optical measurements, and the rise velocities trends are consistent with published models. Together, the observations of bubble radius and rise velocity offer a measure of gas flux, requiring nothing more than vessel transit over a seep site, bypassing the need to deploy time-consuming and expensive optical systems.

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