Diel, seasonal, and inter-annual variation in carbon dioxide effluxes from lakes and reservoirs

Golub, Malgorzata; Koupaei-Abyazani, Nikaan; Vesala, Timo; Mammarella, Ivan; Ojala, Anne; Bohrer, Gil; Weyhenmeyer, Gesa A.; Blanken, Peter D.; Eugster, Werner; Koebsch, Franziska; Chen, Jiquan; Czajkowski, Kevin; Deshmukh, Chandrashekhar; Guérin, Frederic; Heiskanen, Jouni; Humphreys, Elyn; Jonsson, Anders; Karlsson, Jan; Kling, George; Lee, Xuhui; Liu, Heping; Lohila, Annalea; Lundin, Erik; Morin, Tim; Podgrajsek, Eva; Provenzale, Maria; Rutgersson, Anna; Sachs, Torsten; Sahlée, Erik; Serça, Dominique; Shao, Changliang; Spence, Christopher; Strachan, Ian B.; Xiao, Wei; Desai, Ankur R.

doi:10.1088/1748-9326/acb834

Title: Diel, seasonal, and inter-annual variation in carbon dioxide effluxes from lakes and reservoirs

Journal Article · Thu Mar 09 00:00:00 EST 2023 · Environmental Research Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/acb834· OSTI ID:1960660

Golub, Malgorzata;

; Vesala, Timo; Mammarella, Ivan; Ojala, Anne; Bohrer, Gil; Weyhenmeyer, Gesa A.; Blanken, Peter D.;

; Koebsch, Franziska;

; Czajkowski, Kevin; Deshmukh, Chandrashekhar; Guérin, Frederic; Heiskanen, Jouni; Humphreys, Elyn; Jonsson, Anders; Karlsson, Jan; Kling, George;

Abstract Accounting for temporal changes in carbon dioxide (CO ₂ ) effluxes from freshwaters remains a challenge for global and regional carbon budgets. Here, we synthesize 171 site-months of flux measurements of CO ₂ based on the eddy covariance method from 13 lakes and reservoirs in the Northern Hemisphere, and quantify dynamics at multiple temporal scales. We found pronounced sub-annual variability in CO ₂ flux at all sites. By accounting for diel variation, only 11% of site-months were net daily sinks of CO ₂ . Annual CO ₂ emissions had an average of 25% (range 3%–58%) interannual variation. Similar to studies on streams, nighttime emissions regularly exceeded daytime emissions. Biophysical regulations of CO ₂ flux variability were delineated through mutual information analysis. Sample analysis of CO ₂ fluxes indicate the importance of continuous measurements. Better characterization of short- and long-term variability is necessary to understand and improve detection of temporal changes of CO ₂ fluxes in response to natural and anthropogenic drivers. Our results indicate that existing global lake carbon budgets relying primarily on daytime measurements yield underestimates of net emissions.

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Journal Information:: Environmental Research Letters, Journal Name: Environmental Research Letters Vol. 18 Journal Issue: 3; ISSN 1748-9326

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