Carbonyl Sulfide for Tracing Carbon Fluxes Field Campaign Report

Technical Report · Fri Apr 01 04:00:00 EDT 2016

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1251154· OSTI ID:1251154

Campbell, J. Elliott ^[1]; Berry, Joseph A. ^[2]; Billesbach, Dave ^[3]; Torn, Margaret S ^[4]; Zahniser, Mark ^[5]; Seibt, Ulrike ^[6]; Maseyk, Kadmiel ^[7]

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1. Univ. of California, Merced, CA (United States)
2. Carnegie Inst. of Science, Stanford, CA (United States)
3. Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE (United States)
4. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
5. Aerodyne Research, Inc., Billerica, MA (United States)
6. Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)
7. Pierre and Marie Curie Univ., Paris (France)

The April-June 2012 campaign was located at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility Southern Great Plains (SGP) site Central Facility and had three purposes. One goal was to demonstrate the ability of current instrumentation to correctly measure fluxes of atmospheric carbonyl sulfide (COS). The approach has been describe previously as a critical approach to advancing carbon cycle science1,2, but requires further investigation at the canopy scale to resolve ecosystem processes. Previous canopy-scale efforts were limited to data rates of 1Hz. While 1 Hz measurements may work in a few ecosystems, it is widely accepted that data rates of 10 to 20 Hz are needed to fully capture the exchange of traces gases between the atmosphere and vegetative canopy. A second goal of this campaign was to determine if canopy observations could provide information to help interpret the seasonal double peak in airborne observations at SGP of CO₂ and COS mixing ratios. A third goal was to detect potential sources and sinks of COS that must be resolved before using COS as a tracer of gross primary productivity (GPP).

• Research Organization: Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program, Washington, DC (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER) (SC-23)
• OSTI ID: 1251154
• Report Number(s): DOE/SC--ARM-16-024
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
atmospheric carbonyl sulfide
Southern Great Plains
gross primary productivity
carbon cycle