Comment on “A persistent oxygen anomaly reveals the fate of spilled methane in the deep Gulf of Mexico”
Joye, S.B.; Leifer, I.; Macdonald, I.R.; Chanton, J.P.; Meile, C.D.; Teske, A.P.; Kostka, J.E.; Chistoserdova, L.; Coffin, R.; Hollander, D.; Kastner, M.; Montoya, J.P.; Rehder, G.; Solomon, E.; Treude, T.; Villareal, T.A. (2011). Comment on “A persistent oxygen anomaly reveals the fate of spilled methane in the deep Gulf of Mexico”. Science (Wash.) 332(6033): 1033-c. https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1203307
In: Science (Washington). American Association for the Advancement of Science: New York, N.Y. ISSN 0036-8075; e-ISSN 1095-9203, more
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Authors | | Top |
- Joye, S.B.
- Leifer, I.
- Macdonald, I.R.
- Chanton, J.P.
- Meile, C.D.
- Teske, A.P.
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- Kostka, J.E.
- Chistoserdova, L.
- Coffin, R.
- Hollander, D.
- Kastner, M., editor
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- Montoya, J.P.
- Rehder, G.
- Solomon, E.
- Treude, T.
- Villareal, T.A.
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Abstract |
Kessler et al. (Reports, 21 January 2011, p. 312) reported that methane released from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon blowout, approximately 40% of the total hydrocarbon discharge, was consumed quantitatively by methanotrophic bacteria in Gulf of Mexico deep waters over a 4-month period. We find the evidence explicitly linking observed oxygen anomalies to methane consumption ambiguous and extension of these observations to hydrate-derived methane climate forcing premature. |
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