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Methane Bubble Size Distributions, Flux, and Dissolution in a Freshwater Lake

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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
卷 51, 期 23, 页码 13733-13739

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AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.7b04243

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  1. National Science Foundation [EAR-1045193]
  2. MIT Martin Family Fellowship
  3. Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology program
  4. W.E. Leonhard 1941 professorship
  5. [DGE-0707428]

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The majority of methane produced in many anoxic sediments is released via ebullition. These bubbles are subject to dissolution. as they rise, and dissolution rates are strongly influenced by bubble size. Current understanding of natural methane bubble size distributions is limited by the difficulty in measuring bubble sizes over wide spatial or temporal scales. Our custom optical bubble size sensors recorded bubble sizes and release tithing at 8 locations in Upper Mystic Lake, MA continuously for 3 months. Bubble size distributions were spatially heterogeneous even over relatively small areas experiencing similar flux, suggesting that localized sediment conditions are important to controlling bubble size. There was no change in bubble size distributions over the 3 month sampling period, but mean bubble size was positively correlated with daily ebullition flux. Bubble data was used to verify the performance of a widely used bubble dissolution model,. and the model was then used to estimate that bubble dissolution accounts for approximately 10% of methane accumulated in the hypolimnion during summer stratification, and at most 15% of the diffusive air-water-methane flux from the epilimnion.

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