Greenhouse Gas in the Southern Ocean
between 130 and 390 meters, more than half of them in Cumberland Bay.” On average, the flags reached a height of some 70 meters. The highest one, though, measured a staggering 220 meters. Notwithstanding [...] bubbles which appear as small flags on the echogram screens. After rising to a depth of about 25 meters under the surface, these bubbles disperse”, says MARUM scientist Dr. Miriam Römer, lead author of [...] north coast of South Georgia Island lends itself to the formation of methane flags. The almost 3,000-meter high mountains on the 100-mile-long island are covered by huge glaciers. The ice-flows that once stretched