Research indicates that oceanic fire-ice, or frozen methane, is vulnerable to melting from climate change, posing a significant threat of methane release into the atmosphere. An international team of researchers led by Newcastle University found that as frozen methane and ice melts, methane a p
New research has shown that methane trapped under the ocean is vulnerable to climate change and could be released into the ocean. An international team of
Climate change could trigger methane release from the deep ocean idw-online.de - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from idw-online.de Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The fate of plastics entering the 3D ocean circulation from rivers discharge is examined through the Lagrangian analysis of neutrally buoyant particles. Particles are released continuously over 1991-2010 at the surface along the coasts according to monthly estimates of rivers plastic waste input. They are advected by daily currents from a state-of-the-art global ocean model at 1/12° resolution. At the end of the simulation, particles remaining in the surface layer of 1~m thickness represent less than 2\% of the total particles released. These are concentrated in the center of subtropical gyres, mostly in the South Indian Ocean and the North Pacific, in relation with the large sources from Asia, and in good agreement with previous 2D numerical experiments in the surface layer. These patterns remain similar down to about 30 m depth, this upper layer strongly influenced by Ekman currents trapping about 20\% of the total released particles. About 50\% of the total released particles r
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