Annual Report 2014

Abstract

CAGE studies sub-seabed methane hydrates and related greenhouse gas release processes in Arctic environments. Enormous amounts of methane hydrate, an ice-like substance, exist in the ocean floor at high pressure and low temperature. Ocean warming makes it potentially vulnerable to melting. We know that methane released in this way acted as a powerful greenhouse gas accelerating climate warming in the geological past. We aim to examine what it could mean to our future.