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Global ocean methane emissions dominated by shallow coastal waters
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Oceanic emissions represent a highly uncertain term in the natural atmospheric methane (CH 4) budget, due to the sparse sampling of dissolved CH 4 in the marine environment. Here we overcome this limitation by training machine-learning models to map the surface distribution of methane disequilibrium (∆CH 4). Our approach yields a global diffusive CH 4 flux of 2–6TgCH 4 yr−1 from the ocean to the atmosphere, after propagating uncertainties in ∆CH 4 and gas transfer velocity. Combined with constraints on bubble-driven ebullitive fluxes, we place total oceanic CH 4 emissions between 6–12TgCH 4 yr−1, narrowing the range adopted by recent atmospheric budgets (5–25TgCH 4 yr−1) by a factor of three. The global flux is dominated by shallow near-shore environments, where CH 4 released from the seafloor can escape to the atmosphere before oxidation. In the open ocean, our models reveal a significant relationship between ∆CH 4 and primary production that is consistent with hypothesized pathways of in situ methane production during organic matter cycling.
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- Weber, T., Wiseman, N. A., & Kock, A.
- Venue
- Nature Communications
- Published
- 2019-10-08
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 4584-4584
- ISSN
- 2041-1723 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2979890655
- Cited by
- 371
- References
- 53
- FWCI
- 15.85
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
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