Article
Environmental Sciences
J. Prytherch, M. J. Yelland
Summary: This study directly determined the CO2 gas transfer velocity in the central Arctic Ocean during the summer-autumn transition using eddy covariance flux measurements, finding a quadratic dependence on wind speed and a 30% lower value than commonly used open-ocean parameterizations. Additionally, gas transfer velocities were found to be influenced by the dimension of the lead, suggesting that incorporating lead width data may be necessary for regional gas exchange estimates.
GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES
(2021)
Article
Agronomy
Qun Du, HuiZhi Liu, Yang Liu, LuJun Xu, Jihua Sun
Summary: The study found that in the wet season, total evapotranspiration accounted for 60% of the annual total with an amount of 762.3 mm in 2016, much lower than the annual total precipitation (1780.2 mm). Photosynthetic active radiation (PAR) was the main controller of half-hourly net ecosystem exchange (NEE), while air temperature (T-a) mainly controlled seasonal variations in NEE. In 2016, the annual total NEE, gross primary production (GPP) and ecosystem respiration (RE) were -233.8, 796.6, and 562.8 g C m(-2) yr(-1), respectively.
AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Mingxi Yang, Thomas G. Bell, Jean-Raymond Bidlot, Byron W. Blomquist, Brian J. Butterworth, Yuanxu Dong, Christopher W. Fairall, Sebastian Landwehr, Christa A. Marandino, Scott D. Miller, Eric S. Saltzman, Alexander Zavarsky
Summary: This study reevaluated the K-660 of CO2 and found a linear relationship with friction velocity in different wind conditions. Uncertainties of K-660 vary under different wind speeds and are influenced by sea state. Combining the grand average of K-660 with global wind speed distribution provides a global average transfer velocity.
FRONTIERS IN MARINE SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Da Pan, Ilya Gelfand, Lei Tao, Michael Abraha, Kang Sun, Xuehui Guo, Jiquan Chen, G. Philip Robertson, Mark A. Zondlo
Summary: The new laser-based open-path sensors minimize temperature-related corrections for EC flux measurements, improving accuracy. By identifying absorption lines that cancel out density and spectroscopic effects, significant reduction in corrections was achieved for gases like N2O, CO2, and CH4.
GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Oceanography
Matthew H. Long
Summary: The study shows that waves in shallow waters can introduce biases in aquatic biogeochemical EC measurements, while larger measurement heights can create a spectral gap between turbulence and wave frequencies, reducing wave-bias. The new analysis framework and measurement guidelines can effectively remove wave-bias, but wave-bias still exists in traditional EC analysis results.
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-OCEANS
(2021)
Article
Agriculture, Multidisciplinary
Rachael M. Murphy, Matthew Saunders, Karl G. Richards, Dominika J. Krol, Amanuel W. Gebremichael, James Rambaud, Nicholas Cowan, Gary J. Lanigan
Summary: This study quantified field scale N2O emissions from grazed pastures under rotational grazing management using eddy covariance (EC) and static chamber techniques. The results showed that the EC technique was more accurate in quantifying N2O emissions, while static chamber measurements had higher uncertainty due to small chamber sample size per treatment and highly variable N2O flux measurements over space and time. Nitrous oxide emissions from grazing were mainly derived from animal excreta, highlighting the importance of considering different nitrogen sources when quantifying N2O-N losses.
AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT
(2022)
Article
Engineering, Civil
Yamei Shao, Huizhi Liu, Qun Du, Yang Liu, Jihua Sun
Summary: This study investigates the variations of evapotranspiration (ET) and its controlling factors in Beihai wetland using eddy covariance technique. The results show that net radiation (Rn) and cloudiness are the main factors influencing ET. Annual precipitation and the fraction of water surface also have significant effects on ET.
JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY
(2022)
Review
Geochemistry & Geophysics
Peter Berg, Markus Huettel, Ronnie N. Glud, Clare E. Reimers, Karl M. Attard
Summary: Aquatic eddy covariance (AEC) is a noninvasive technique with high temporal resolution and large area coverage, which provides new insights and more accurate assessments of the functioning and metabolism of aquatic ecosystems. The studies using AEC have revealed that benthic oxygen exchange is more dynamic than previously recognized, and accurate mean values can only be obtained by integrating measurements over all timescales. The technique has also seen new developments in measuring air-water gas exchange and long-term deployments.
ANNUAL REVIEW OF MARINE SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Agronomy
Henrique Boriolo Dias, Santiago Vianna Cuadra, Kenneth J. Boote, Rubens Augusto Camargo Lamparelli, Gleyce Kelly Dantas Araujo Figueiredo, Andrew E. Suyker, Paulo Sergio Graziano Magalhaes, Gerrit Hoogenboom
Summary: This study coupled a well-known crop model with a land surface model and evaluated the model performance using comprehensive data from soybean agroecosystems in eastern Nebraska. The results show that the coupled model can accurately simulate surface fluxes and crop performance, with simulated yields consistent with field observations.
AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY
(2023)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Curtis J. Richardson, Neal E. Flanagan, Hongjun Wang, Mengchi Ho
Summary: Rewetting drained subtropical wooded peatlands can prevent significant carbon losses, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and contribute to achieving the net-zero emission goal in the United States.
GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Agronomy
Huijie Hu, Yongzong Lu, Yongguang Hu, Risheng Ding
Summary: Seasonal drought in China's lower slope hilly areas causes significant economic loss to tea production. Accurate determination of evapotranspiration (ET) is crucial for irrigation management. The surface renewal (SR) method is an accurate and inexpensive alternative to the eddy covariance (EC) method for calculating sensible heat flux. This study compared traditional (SRsnyder) and improved (SRchen) SR methods for calculating H over a tea field for a year, finding that SRchen showed better accuracy during spring, summer, and autumn. The study recommends using SRchen in the Yangtze River region's tea field ecosystem during those seasons, and SRsnyder in winter.
Article
Ecology
Karl M. Attard, Anna Lyssenko, Ivan F. Rodil
Summary: This study investigates the dynamics of dissolved oxygen (O2) and macrobenthic biodiversity in a shallow macrophyte detritus field in the northern Baltic Sea. The results show that hypoxia is prevalent in the detritus field and negatively affects macrobenthic abundance.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Krzysztof Fortuniak, Wlodzimierz Pawlak, Mariusz Siedlecki, Scott Chambers, Leszek Bednorz
Summary: The study provides empirical evidence that wetlands can switch between being a sink and a source of atmospheric carbon depending on the wetness of the year. This feedback loop between wetland carbon release and climate change trajectory highlights the importance of preserving or restoring natural wetlands.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2021)
Article
Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
Trevor W. Coates, Monzurul Alam, Thomas K. Flesch, Guillermo Hernandez-Ramirez
Summary: Two micrometeorological flux footprint models were used to calculate gas emission rate, both underestimating the actual release rate by approximately 30%, with large variability in accuracy but no statistical differences observed overall.
ATMOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Tatsuku Tokoro, Tomohiro Kuwae
Summary: The study in Tokyo Bay revealed that CO2 was taken up from the atmosphere at a rate of 6.05 +/- 7.14 mmol m(-2) hour(-1) and O-2 was taken up from the water into the sediment at a rate of 0.62 +/- 1.14 mmol m(-2) hour(-1. Light intensity and water temperature were identified as major factors affecting CO2 and O-2 exchange.
FRONTIERS IN MARINE SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Brian M. Hopkinson, Andrew C. King, Daniel P. Owen, Matthew Johnson-Roberson, Matthew H. Long, Suchendra M. Bhandarkar
Article
Limnology
Daniel P. Owen, Matthew H. Long, William K. Fitt, Brian M. Hopkinson
Summary: This study estimated the contribution of different primary producers to the overall primary production on coral reefs, finding that the main producers varied between degraded and intact reef sites. By using a bottom-up approach, the researchers were able to provide more accurate estimates of production rates and validate the method's reliability through comparison with in situ measurements.
LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Yibin Huang, David Nicholson, Bangqin Huang, Nicolas Cassar
Summary: Global oceanic gross primary production (GPP) has been studied using two satellite-based models, showing that GPP(17 Delta) is 1.5-2.2 times larger than oceanic net primary production (NPP) and comparable to land GPP. The discrepancy between GPP(17 Delta) and GPP(LD) simulations can be partially explained by methodological biases.
GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES
(2021)
Article
Oceanography
Matthew H. Long
Summary: The study shows that waves in shallow waters can introduce biases in aquatic biogeochemical EC measurements, while larger measurement heights can create a spectral gap between turbulence and wave frequencies, reducing wave-bias. The new analysis framework and measurement guidelines can effectively remove wave-bias, but wave-bias still exists in traditional EC analysis results.
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-OCEANS
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
M. Dever, D. Nicholson, M. M. Omand, A. Mahadevan
Summary: This study demonstrates that slow-sinking particles can have a significant impact on the export of organic carbon, and at times, even dominate the export flux. In dynamic flow fields, particles with slower sinking speeds may play a major role in POC export, challenging traditional assumptions about the mechanisms driving this process.
GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES
(2021)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Nicolas Cassar, David Nicholson, Samar Khatiwala, Ellen Cliff
Summary: Recent methodological and instrumental advances have paved the way to further deconvolve the processes driving the O-2 signature in the subsurface ocean. By using numerical model simulations of the global ocean, it is shown that the measurements of the dissolved O-2/Ar ratio can provide improved estimates of oxygen utilization, especially in regions where disequilibrium at the site of deepwater formation is associated with physical processes. The proposed new composite geochemical tracer, [O2]bio*, combines dissolved O-2/Ar and phosphate concentration and reflects gas exchange at the air-sea interface at the sites of deepwater formation.
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
(2021)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Dirk Koopmans, Volker Meyer, Allison Schaap, Marius Dewar, Paul Farber, Matthew Long, Jonas Gros, Douglas Connelly, Moritz Holtappels
Summary: The study used pH eddy covariance to detect and quantify controlled release of CO2 on the seafloor, finding that the emission was significantly higher than proton flux from natural mineralization, and highlighting the importance of considering carbonate system kinetics in emission estimation.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GREENHOUSE GAS CONTROL
(2021)
Editorial Material
Oceanography
Dariia Atamanchuk, Jaime Palter, Hilary Palevsky, Isabela Le Bras, Jannes Koelling, David Nicholson
Article
Limnology
Jeff Coogan, Jennie E. Rheuban, Matthew H. Long
Summary: This study compares the measurements of the gradient flux (GF) method with two other methods, eddy covariance and benthic chambers, to show their strengths, weaknesses, and uncertainties. The results highlight the importance of sufficient DO gradient, consistent methods for comparison, and careful estimation of sensor scale and placement in complex bottom types when using the GF method.
LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY-METHODS
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Yibin Huang, Rachel Eveleth, David Nicholson, Nicolas Cassar
Summary: In this study, the researchers compared mechanistic and empirical approaches to reconstruct the air-sea flux of biological oxygen by parameterizing the physical oxygen saturation anomaly. The study highlights the importance of using snapshot measurements of oxygen and historical oxygen data, and provides the most robust predictions.
GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES
(2022)
Article
Limnology
Malcolm E. Scully, Anna P. M. Michel, David P. Nicholson, Shawnee Traylor
Summary: The combination of data collected from various sources in the Hudson River reveals the significance of spatial and temporal variations in atmospheric gas flux, particularly oxygen and carbon dioxide. The fluctuations in stratification and mixing caused by spring-neap variations play a key role in the exchange of these gases, with stronger stratification limiting vertical mixing during weak neap tides and enhancing estuarine circulation. This research also highlights the estuarine gas exchange maximum (EGM), a region where enhanced gas exchange occurs due to convergence in bottom transport, which is similar to the estuarine turbidity maximum (ETM) found in other estuarine systems.
LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Matthew H. H. Long, Jordan W. Mora
Summary: Coastal nutrient pollution, or eutrophication, often occurs due to human activities in terrestrial watersheds, leading to degraded water quality over time. The management and monitoring of estuarine systems usually lag behind environmental degradation. In the case of Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, the loss of eelgrass meadows and the decline in macroalgal biomass have resulted in shifts in water quality and ecosystem structure, with an increase in phytoplankton biomass and a shift towards pelagic dominance. This shift may have wider implications for other eutrophic and warming estuaries in the future.
ESTUARIES AND COASTS
(2023)
Article
Limnology
Solomon T. Chen, Collin P. Ward, Matthew H. Long
Summary: Pelagic photosynthesis and respiration play crucial roles in controlling dissolved oxygen concentration in seawater. To address the lack of data on marine primary production, a novel automated water incubation system was developed to measure in situ rates of photosynthesis and respiration, providing high-resolution data on the metabolic state of pelagic ecosystems.
LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY-METHODS
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Alan M. Seltzer, David P. Nicholson, William M. Smethie, Rebecca L. Tyne, Emilie Le Roy, Rachel H. R. Stanley, Martin Stute, Peter H. Barry, Katelyn McPaul, Perrin W. Davidson, Bonnie X. Chang, Patrick A. Rafter, Paul Lethaby, Rod J. Johnson, Samar Khatiwala, William J. Jenkins
Summary: Gas exchange between the atmosphere and ocean impacts global climate and biogeochemistry. Noble gases in the deep ocean provide valuable information about air-sea interaction, but their isotope ratios have not been well explored. High-precision noble gas isotope and elemental ratios from the deep North Atlantic reveal cooling-driven air-to-sea gas transport and bubble-mediated gas exchange. Using noble gases to validate air-sea gas exchange in a model allows us to differentiate physical from biogeochemical signals and study the marine nitrogen cycle.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2023)
Article
Limnology
Jeff Coogan, Matthew H. H. Long
Summary: The aquatic eddy covariance (AEC) technique is a versatile tool for understanding benthic fluxes. This paper evaluates the design and deployment of a long-term eddy covariance system (LECS) that provided reliable data for 6 months in a temperate seagrass meadow. The study found a gradual reduction in sensor response time, likely due to fouling, and introduced new spectral analysis techniques for real-time monitoring.
LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY-METHODS
(2023)