Sentences with phrase «gigaton pulse»
Research in 2008 led by oceanographer Natalia Shakhova, now at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, estimated the thawing shelf could release a 50 - gigaton pulse of methane from hydrates over 10 years — about 8 percent of the methane stored in the shelf's sediments.
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Dr. Natalia Shakhova, of the University of Alaska Fairbanks» International Arctic Research Center has warned that a 50 - gigaton burp, or «pulse,» of methane from thawing Arctic permafrost beneath the East Siberian Arctic Shelf is «highly possible at any time.»