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Constraining surface carbon fluxes using in situ measurements of carbonyl sulfide and carbon dioxide

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  • Understanding the processes that control the terrestrial exchange of carbon is critical for assessing atmospheric CO₂ budgets. Carbonyl sulfide (COS) is taken up by vegetation during photosynthesis following a pathway that mirrors CO₂ but has a small or nonexistent emission component, providing a possible tracer for gross primary production. Field measurements of COS and CO₂ mixing ratios were made in forest, senescent grassland, and riparian ecosystems using a laser absorption spectrometer installed in a mobile trailer. Measurements of leaf fluxes with a branch-bag gas-exchange system were made across species from 10 genera of trees, and soil fluxes were measured with a flow-through chamber. These data show (1) the existence of a narrow normalized daytime uptake ratio of COS to CO₂ across vascular plant species of 1.7, providing critical information for the application of COS to estimate photosynthetic CO₂ fluxes and (2) a temperature-dependent normalized uptake ratio of COS to CO₂ from soils. Significant nighttime uptake of COS was observed in broad-leafed species and revealed active stomatal opening prior to sunrise. Continuous high-resolution joint measurements of COS and CO₂ concentrations in the boundary layer are used here alongside the flux measurements to partition the influence that leaf and soil fluxes and entrainment of air from above have on the surface carbon budget. The results provide a number of critical constraints on the processes that control surface COS exchange, which can be used to diagnose the robustness of global models that are beginning to use COS to constrain terrestrial carbon exchange.
  • Keywords: surface fluxes, carbonyl sulfide, laser absorption spectrometry, carbon budget, instrument development
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  • Berkelhammer, M., D. Asaf, C. Still, S. Montzka, D. Noone, M. Gupta, R. Provencal, H. Chen, and D. Yakir (2014), Constraining surface carbon fluxes using in situ measurements of carbonyl sulfide and carbon dioxide. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 28, 161–179. doi:10.1002/2013GB004644
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  • Support for the work was from theCooperative Institute for Researchin Environmental Sciences InnovativeResearch Program and NSFAGS-0955841 to D.N. D.Y. contributedthrough support from the CIRESVisiting Fellows Program. D.A. wassupported through a postdoctoralfellowship from the Israeli ScienceFoundation. LGR would like to acknowledgefunding from NASA through theSmall Business Innovation Programgrant NNX12CD21P.
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