Increasing Methane Emissions From Natural Land Ecosystems due to Sea-Level Rise
Abstract
We report atmospheric methane (CH4) is one of the most important greenhouse gases. However, there is still a large uncertainty in simulating CH4 emissions from terrestrial ecosystems. Different from modeling studies focusing on response of CH4 emissions to various environmental changes in land ecosystems, this study analyzed the response of CH4 emissions to sea-level rise (SLR). To do so, a large-scale surface water routing module was incorporated into an existing CH4 model. This allowed the model to simulate the effect of SLR on river flows and inland water levels. This study focused on these freshwater systems and did not address saltwater intrusion or coastal wetland impacts. Both the annual maximum inundation extent and CH4 emissions at the global level showed a steadily growing trend, with an increase of 1.21 × 105 km2 in extent and an increase of 3.13 Tg CH4/year in CH4 emissions, in a 22-year SLR experiment from 1993 to 2014. Most of new inundation and methane source areas were located near rivers' deltas and along downstream reaches of rivers. The increase in the inundation extent is primarily influenced by precipitation, channel geomorphic characteristics, and topography of riverside area. The increase of CH4 emissions due to the SLRmore »
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- Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR (United States). Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society
- Iowa State University of Science and Technology, Ames IA (United States). Department of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences
- Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States). Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
- Laboratoire d'Etudes du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique, CNRS, Observatoire de Paris, Paris (France)
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, College Park, MD (United States). Joint Global Change Research Institute
- Wageningen University, Wageningen (Netherlands). Hydrology and Quantitative Water Management Group
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- Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
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- USDOE
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- 1457767
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- PNNL-SA-130164
Journal ID: ISSN 2169-8953
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- AC05-76RL01830; NNX17AK20G-1555205
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- Journal of Geophysical Research. Biogeosciences
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- Journal Volume: 123; Journal Issue: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 2169-8953
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- American Geophysical Union
- Country of Publication:
- United States
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- English
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- 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; 58 GEOSCIENCES; 59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; methane emission; sea-level rise; modeling
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Lu, Xiaoliang, Zhou, Yuyu, Zhuang, Qianlai, Prigent, Catherine, Liu, Yaling, and Teuling, Adriaan. Increasing Methane Emissions From Natural Land Ecosystems due to Sea-Level Rise. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1029/2017JG004273.
Lu, Xiaoliang, Zhou, Yuyu, Zhuang, Qianlai, Prigent, Catherine, Liu, Yaling, & Teuling, Adriaan. Increasing Methane Emissions From Natural Land Ecosystems due to Sea-Level Rise. United States. https://doi.org/10.1029/2017JG004273
Lu, Xiaoliang, Zhou, Yuyu, Zhuang, Qianlai, Prigent, Catherine, Liu, Yaling, and Teuling, Adriaan. Fri .
"Increasing Methane Emissions From Natural Land Ecosystems due to Sea-Level Rise". United States. https://doi.org/10.1029/2017JG004273. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1457767.
@article{osti_1457767,
title = {Increasing Methane Emissions From Natural Land Ecosystems due to Sea-Level Rise},
author = {Lu, Xiaoliang and Zhou, Yuyu and Zhuang, Qianlai and Prigent, Catherine and Liu, Yaling and Teuling, Adriaan},
abstractNote = {We report atmospheric methane (CH4) is one of the most important greenhouse gases. However, there is still a large uncertainty in simulating CH4 emissions from terrestrial ecosystems. Different from modeling studies focusing on response of CH4 emissions to various environmental changes in land ecosystems, this study analyzed the response of CH4 emissions to sea-level rise (SLR). To do so, a large-scale surface water routing module was incorporated into an existing CH4 model. This allowed the model to simulate the effect of SLR on river flows and inland water levels. This study focused on these freshwater systems and did not address saltwater intrusion or coastal wetland impacts. Both the annual maximum inundation extent and CH4 emissions at the global level showed a steadily growing trend, with an increase of 1.21 × 105 km2 in extent and an increase of 3.13 Tg CH4/year in CH4 emissions, in a 22-year SLR experiment from 1993 to 2014. Most of new inundation and methane source areas were located near rivers' deltas and along downstream reaches of rivers. The increase in the inundation extent is primarily influenced by precipitation, channel geomorphic characteristics, and topography of riverside area. The increase of CH4 emissions due to the SLR is largely determined by the inundation extent, but other factors such as air temperature and carbon storage also play roles. Although the current SLR-induced increases in the inundation extent and CH4 emissions only accounted for 1.0% and 1.3% of their global totals, these increases contributed 7.0% and 17.3% of the mean annual variability in both, respectively, during the study period. Considering that SLR has a long-term increasing trend, future SLR under a changing climate could play a more important role in global CH4 emissions.},
doi = {10.1029/2017JG004273},
journal = {Journal of Geophysical Research. Biogeosciences},
number = 5,
volume = 123,
place = {United States},
year = {2018},
month = {5}
}
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Figure 1: Global daily inundation extent estimated from Global Inundation Extent from Multisatellites (GIEMS, black line) and this study (red line) during 1993–2007. Note that the original time resolution of the satellite observations is monthly.
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