Assessment of the Response of Subaqueous Methane Hydrate Deposits to Possible Climate Change in the Twenty-First Century

摘要

Large reserves of methane are trapped in oceanic hydrate deposits. Increase in temperature of the oceans makes a contribution to the dissociation of oceanic hydrate accumulations and release of potentially large amounts of methane into the atmosphere. Such releases into the atmosphere lead to an increase in the greenhouse effect and, accordingly, serious climate changes and to accelerate the gas hydrate dissociation. In this work we evaluated the stability of the existing reserves of subaqueous (underwater) gas hydrates and possible methane release with the dissociation of methane hydrates in the twenty-first century [1].