Open AccessA Benchmark for Trace Greenhouse Gases in the Arctic Ocean
Author(s) -
Terri Cook
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
eos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2017eo077827
Subject(s) - trace (psycholinguistics) , environmental science , benchmark (surveying) , trace gas , greenhouse gas , arctic , the arctic , oceanography , meteorology , geography , geology , philosophy , linguistics , geodesy
Samples of seawater from the North American Arctic show that the region is neither a major source nor sink of methane and nitrous oxide to the overlying atmosphere.