A REGIONAL ATMOSPHERIC CONTINUOUS CO2 NETWORK IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS ...
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We
are establishing a continuous CO2 observing network in the Rocky Mountains, building on technological and modeling
advances made during the Carbon in the Mountains Experiment (CME), to improve our understanding of regional
carbon fluxes and to fill key gaps in the North American Carbon Program (NACP).
We will present a description of the Rocky RACCOON network and early results
from the first three sites.
Author's Names: B.B. Stephens, S. De Wekker, D. Schimel, and A. Watt
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AN AUTONOMOUS, INEXPENSIVE, AND ROBUST CO2 ANALYZER
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We
will present our design of a new autonomous, inexpensive, and robust CO2
analyzer (AIRCOA), a description of our quality control procedures, and data
examples from ongoing deployments. Our
current AIRCOA units require less than $10K (USD) in components, show
intercomparability better than 0.1 ppm during laboratory tests, and are
designed to run autonomously for months at a time.
Author's Names: B.B. Stephens, A. Watt, and G. Maclean
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BIOLOGICALLY DRIVEN SOUTHERN OCEAN CARBON FLUXES AS OBSERVED BY ATMOSPHERIC O2 AND CO2 CONCENTRATION
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Our
understanding of biogeochemical and physical processes in the Southern Ocean,
which are critically important to future anthropogenic CO2 uptake
and global climate, is limited by the sparse spatial and temporal coverage of
existing oceanographic and atmospheric measurements. We will present
high-precision horizontal atmospheric O2 and CO2 concentration
gradients over the Southern Ocean from three independent observing networks. These
measurements reveal that, relative to southern mid-latitudes and Antarctica, CO2 concentrations over the
Southern Ocean are high during winter and low during summer (Fig. 1). This
suggests a seasonal variation between net CO2 summertime uptake and wintertime
release that is in disagreement with the T99 [Takahashi et al., 2002] dissolved pCO2 climatology,
which predicts year‑round CO2 uptake, and with the OCMIP‑2 biological
ocean general circulation models [BOGCMs, Doney
et al., 2004], which either predict year-round CO2 uptake or
opposite seasonality with wintertime uptake and summertime release.
Author's Names: B.B. Stephens, D.F. Baker, M. Battle, R.F. Keeling, et al
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NATURAL AND ANTHROPOGENIC CARBON IN THE ATMOSPHERE AND OCEANS ON CLIMATE CHANGE: STUDY ON THE ...
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The
present study made an attempt to analyse the extent of natural and
anthropogenic carbon in the atmosphere and oceans particularly with reference
to Indian Ocean as major human clusters are
responsible for climate change. The study also probes into the spatial patterns
and temporal variation using the time series data collected from secondary
sources.
Author's Names: S. Shanmuganandan
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ATMOSPHERIC CO2, O2, CH4, N2O, AND SF6 CONTINUOUS MEASUREMENTS FROM A MID-CONTINENTAL EUROPEAN ...
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Continuous
atmospheric measurements from tall towers have the capability to bridge an
observational gap between hemispheric and local scales. We present first
results from measurements made at such a tower in Germany. We show anti-correlated O2 and CO2
high frequency temporal variations which are caused by regional land biotic and
fossil fuel emissions. We also show correlated changes in CO2
concentration with air mass back trajectories, for example showing elevated CO2
from air masses derived from eastern Europe, and lower, “background”
concentrations from air masses derived from the North
Atlantic.
Author's Names: A.C. Manning, M. Gloor, A. Jordan, T. Seifert, et al
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ATMOSPHERIC O2-N2, CO2 AND δ13C MEASUREMENTS FROM FLASK SAMPLING AT THREE DIFFERENT SITES IN ...
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First atmospheric δO2/N2, CO2
and δ13C flask measurements from vertical aircraft sampling in the
lower troposphere above Griffin Forest (GRI), Perthshire, UK, (56°37’N, 3°47’W)
and from ground based flask sampling at the high altitude site Jungfraujoch
(JFJ), Switzerland (3580m above sea level (a.s.l.), 46°33’N, 7°59’E), and the
mountain site Puy de Dôme (PUY), France (1480m a.s.l., 45°46’N, 2°58’E) are
presented.
Author's Names: P. Sturm, M. Leuenberger, J. Moncrieff, et al
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MULTIYEAR CO2 CHANGES FROM AIRCRAFT, SURFACE AND OPTICAL MEASUREMENTS
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We present a statistical analysis of aircraft and
surface measurements of the CO2 mixing ratio over the US Rocky
Mountains during 1993 – 2002 at latitudes close to that of the Issyk-Kul
station in Kyrgyzstan.
Average characteristics of the CO2 mixing ratio and its annual
variations show only small height variability in the troposphere over well
mixed mountain regions. Comparison of Issyk-Kul
optical data with US aircraft and surface measurements shows satisfactory
agreement. Also some differences at low altitudes were obtained owing to
possible regional differences between mountain regions of Central Asia and USA.
Author's Names: N.M. Gavrilov, V.K. Semyonov, V.P. Sinyakov, et al
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OBSERVATIONS OF ATMOSPHERIC CO2 CONCENTRATION AND ITS CARBON ISOTOPIC RATIO IN CHINA
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Systematic measurements of the CO2 concentration
and its carbon isotopic ratio (d13C)
have been carried out at 7 locations in China since March or July 2003.
Seasonal cycles of the CO2 concentration and d13C were clearly observable, especially at Longfengshan,
Shangdianzi and Fukang. The d13C
value of source producing the seasonal CO2 cycle at each site, dS, was estimated from the
observed CO2 and d13C
seasonal cycles. The average value of dS derived for the 6 sites was
calculated to be -25.6 (±1.8) ‰, which is larger than those observed at
mid-latitudes in the western Pacific region, probably due to smaller
discrimination of 13C by C4 plants in the continent of
China.
Author's Names: S. Sugawara, S. Aoki, T. Nakazawa, J. Tang, et al
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TROPICAL DROUGHT AND THE CARBON CYCLE: C3-C4 PLANT FRACTIONS, ROOT-ZONE STRESS AND THE USE OF ...
Description: Tropical
drought can significantly impact inter-annual variations in the terrestrial CO2
fluxes. Concentrations and carbon
isotope ratios of atmospheric CO2 can help to quantify this impact,
however, their use requires a model estimation of the terrestrial isotope
disequilibirum, i.e. the difference between the isotopic signature of
photosynthesis and respiration, which can only be achieved by accurately accounting
for changes in relative contributions of C3 and C4 plants (C4 fraction) and
physiological effects of root-zone water stress.
Author's Names: N.S. Suits, A.S. Denning, and J.B. Miller
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CO2 TRANSPORT OVER COMPLEX TERRAIN
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The
carbon dioxide transport at the Niwot Ridge AmeriFlux site was investigated in
both gravity and streamline coordinates. For this forested site with a 6%
slope, both nighttime drainage flow and daytime upslope flow played important
roles in the CO2 budget. Both the CO2 respiration at
night and the CO2 uptake during the day are underestimated if the
horizontal transport of CO2 is not monitored; and the two components
may not cancel out.
Author's Names: Jielun Sun, Sean Burns, Tony Delany, Steve Oncley, et al
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