期刊
EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS
卷 367, 期 -, 页码 105-115出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.02.017
关键词
methane hydrate; anthropogenic; climate change
资金
- NERC [NE/J005290/1, NE/I028610/1]
- Russian Federation [MK-6932.2012.1]
- NERC [bgs05002, NE/J005290/1, NE/F021941/1, bgs05003] Funding Source: UKRI
- Natural Environment Research Council [bgs05002, NE/F021941/1, bgs05003, NE/J005290/1] Funding Source: researchfish
The global submarine inventory of methane hydrate is thought to be considerable. The stability of marine hydrates is sensitive to changes in temperature and pressure and once destabilised, hydrates release methane into sediments and ocean and potentially into the atmosphere, creating a positive feedback with climate change. Here we present results from a multi-model study investigating how the methane hydrate inventory dynamically responds to different scenarios of future climate and sea level change. The results indicate that a warming-induced reduction is dominant even when assuming rather extreme rates of sea level rise (up to 20 mm yr(-1)) under moderate warming scenarios (RCP 4.5). Over the next century modelled hydrate dissociation is focussed in the top similar to 100 m of Arctic and Subarctic sediments beneath <500 m water depth. Predicted dissociation rates are particularly sensitive to the modelled vertical hydrate distribution within sediments. Under the worst case business-as-usual scenario (RCP 8.5), upper estimates of resulting global sea-floor methane fluxes could exceed estimates of natural global fluxes by 2100 ( >30-50 Tg CH4 yr(-1)), although subsequent oxidation in the water column could reduce peak atmospheric release rates to 0.75-1.4 Tg CH4 yr(-1). (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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