Dissolved methane in Lake Baikal: a modified technique for determining concentrations and vertical distribution in the water column
- Authors: Mizandrontsev I.B.1, Kozlov V.V.2, Ivanov V.G.1, Kucher K.M.1, Korneva E.S.1, Granin N.G.1
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Affiliations:
- Limnological Institute of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Matrosov Institute for System Dynamics and Control Theory of Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Issue: No 6 (2019)
- Pages: 316-325
- Section: Articles
- URL: https://ogarev-online.ru/2658-3518/article/view/284720
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.31951/2658-3518-2019-A-6-316
- ID: 284720
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Abstract
We have developed a modified method of headspace analysis of water samples with the control of temperature and total pressure in the gaseous phase of a closed heterogeneous system followed by a gas chromatographic measurement of methane concentration with the methane content in the lake water of < 500 nl СН4/L. Here, we describe the background concentrations and vertical distribution of dissolved methane in the water column of Lake Baikal, which were obtained for several years.
About the authors
I. B. Mizandrontsev
Limnological Institute of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Email: vigo@lin.irk.ru
Russian Federation, 3, Ulan-Batorskaya St., Irkutsk, 664033
V. V. Kozlov
Matrosov Institute for System Dynamics and Control Theory of Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Email: vigo@lin.irk.ru
Russian Federation, 134, Lermontov St., Irkutsk, 664033
V. G. Ivanov
Limnological Institute of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Author for correspondence.
Email: vigo@lin.irk.ru
Russian Federation, 3, Ulan-Batorskaya St., Irkutsk, 664033
K. M. Kucher
Limnological Institute of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Email: vigo@lin.irk.ru
Russian Federation, 3, Ulan-Batorskaya St., Irkutsk, 664033
E. S. Korneva
Limnological Institute of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Email: vigo@lin.irk.ru
Russian Federation, 3, Ulan-Batorskaya St., Irkutsk, 664033
N. G. Granin
Limnological Institute of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Email: vigo@lin.irk.ru
Russian Federation, 3, Ulan-Batorskaya St., Irkutsk, 664033
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