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1 Methane and nitrous oxide may contribute more to greenhouse effect than CO2

emission from the South China Sea in summer

Hsiao-Chun Tseng1, Chen-Tung Arthur Chen2, Angel del Valls1 and Alberto Vieira

Borges3 1

Erasmus Mundus Office, Puerto Real Campus, University of Cadiz, 11519, Puerto

Real, Cadiz, Spain 2

Institute of Marine Geology and Chemistry, National Sun Yat-sen University,

Kaohsiung 804, Taiwan 3

Université de Liège, Unité d’Océanographie Chimique, Institut de Physique (B5),

B-4000, Belgium

Abstract

The South China Sea (SCS) is the largest marginal sea in the world. It is now

apparent that in summer tropical seas, such as the SCS, are either close to neutral or

are a small source of CO2 to the atmosphere. Methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O), however, are clearly much more supersaturated in the SCS. In the case of the

SCS, the CH4 and N2O released from the surface waters contribute about three times

as much to the greenhouse effect as CO2 does.

In addition, abnormally high subsurface CH4 concentrations were found on the

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and/or may have originated in CH4 gas hydrates. CH4 gas hydrates might become an

important source of energy in the future. However, will the buried CH4 be released

either due to the warming of the seawater, the internal waves, tropical storms or other

disturbances? It may compound the severity of global warming.

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