Sonar estimation of methane bubble flux from thawing subsea permafrost: A case study from the laptev sea shelf

Abstract

Seeps found offshore in the East Siberian Arctic Shelf may mark zones of degrading subsea permafrost and related destabilization of gas hydrates. Sonar surveys provide an effective tool for mapping seabed methane fluxes and monitoring subsea Arctic permafrost seepage. The paper presents an overview of existing approaches to sonar estimation of methane bubble flux from the sea floor to the water column and a new method for quantifying CH₄ ebullition. In the suggested method, the flux of methane bubbles is estimated from its response to insonification using the backscattering cross section. The method has demonstrated its efficiency in the case study of single- and multi-beam acoustic surveys of a large seep field on the Laptev Sea shelf.

Original language	English
Article number	411
Pages (from-to)	1-14
Number of pages	14
Journal	Geosciences (Switzerland)
Volume	10
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences10100411
Publication status	Published - Oct 2020

Keywords

Active acoustic survey
East siberian arctic shelf
Laptev sea
Permafrost
Seeps
Taliks

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Earth and Planetary Sciences(all)

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Chernykh, D., Yusupov, V., Salomatin, A., Kosmach, D., Shakhova, N., Gershelis, E., Konstantinov, A., Grinko, A., Chuvilin, E., Dudarev, O., Koshurnikov, A., & Semiletov, I. (2020). Sonar estimation of methane bubble flux from thawing subsea permafrost: A case study from the laptev sea shelf. Geosciences (Switzerland), 10(10), 1-14. [411]. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences10100411

Sonar estimation of methane bubble flux from thawing subsea permafrost : A case study from the laptev sea shelf. / Chernykh, Denis; Yusupov, Vladimir; Salomatin, Aleksandr; Kosmach, Denis; Shakhova, Natalia; Gershelis, Elena; Konstantinov, Anton; Grinko, Andrey; Chuvilin, Evgeny; Dudarev, Oleg; Koshurnikov, Andrey; Semiletov, Igor.

In: Geosciences (Switzerland), Vol. 10, No. 10, 411, 10.2020, p. 1-14.

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Chernykh, D, Yusupov, V, Salomatin, A, Kosmach, D, Shakhova, N, Gershelis, E, Konstantinov, A, Grinko, A, Chuvilin, E, Dudarev, O, Koshurnikov, A & Semiletov, I 2020, 'Sonar estimation of methane bubble flux from thawing subsea permafrost: A case study from the laptev sea shelf', Geosciences (Switzerland), vol. 10, no. 10, 411, pp. 1-14. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences10100411

Chernykh, Denis ; Yusupov, Vladimir ; Salomatin, Aleksandr ; Kosmach, Denis ; Shakhova, Natalia ; Gershelis, Elena ; Konstantinov, Anton ; Grinko, Andrey ; Chuvilin, Evgeny ; Dudarev, Oleg ; Koshurnikov, Andrey ; Semiletov, Igor. / Sonar estimation of methane bubble flux from thawing subsea permafrost : A case study from the laptev sea shelf. In: Geosciences (Switzerland). 2020 ; Vol. 10, No. 10. pp. 1-14.

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