On an annual basis, the researchers say, the amount of SO2 released was at least 10 times greater than the current amount released by worldwide volcanic activity.
The overall amount released in resting muscle by this means greatly exceeds the spontaneous release of individual vesicles.
That's more than twice the amount released by the record-breaking Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.
The executive director, Hela Cheikhrouhou, said the symbolic significance of getting the fund up and running before the Paris talks outweighed the relatively tiny amount released.
The amount released makes it the biggest spill on the UK continental shelf since that in the Hutton field in 2000, when about 350 tonnes were released.
The amount released was normalized according to the amount of electricity generated at each site.
c Total DOX amount released for every different sample during the monitoring.
The amount released at set time-points was used to build PLS models.
Detailed reclamation criteria and the amount released for each phase and procedures of release should be clearly stipulated.
The system performance is evaluated in terms of the time needed to characterize the release (location, amount released, and duration).
