A new dataset of soil carbon and nitrogen stocks and profiles from an instrumented Greenlandic fen designed to evaluate land-surface models
Abstract Arctic and boreal peatlands play a major role in the global carbon (C) cycle. They are particularly efficient at sequestering carbon because their high water content limits decomposition rates to levels below their net primary productivity. Their future in a climate-change context is quite...
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ftunivoulu:oai:oulu.fi:nbnfi-fe202102124677 2023-07-30T04:01:40+02:00 A new dataset of soil carbon and nitrogen stocks and profiles from an instrumented Greenlandic fen designed to evaluate land-surface models Morel, X. (Xavier) Hansen, B. (Birger) Delire, C. (Christine) Ambus, P. (Per) Mastepanov, M. (Mikhail) Decharme, B. (Bertrand) 2020 application/pdf http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe202102124677 eng eng Copernicus Publications info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.909899 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess © Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2020 ftunivoulu https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.909899 2023-07-08T19:57:33Z Abstract Arctic and boreal peatlands play a major role in the global carbon (C) cycle. They are particularly efficient at sequestering carbon because their high water content limits decomposition rates to levels below their net primary productivity. Their future in a climate-change context is quite uncertain in terms of carbon emissions and carbon sequestration. Nuuk fen is a well-instrumented Greenlandic fen with monitoring of soil physical variables and greenhouse gas fluxes (CH₄ and CO₂) and is of particular interest for testing and validating land-surface models. But knowledge of soil carbon stocks and profiles is missing. This is a crucial shortcoming for a complete evaluation of models, as soil carbon is one of the primary drivers of CH₄ and CO₂ soil emissions. To address this issue, we measured, for the first time, soil carbon and nitrogen density, profiles and stocks in the Nuuk peatland (64∘07′51′′ N, 51∘23′10′′ W), colocated with the greenhouse gas measurements. Measurements were made along two transects, 60 and 90 m long and with a horizontal resolution of 5 m and a vertical resolution of 5 to 10 cm, using a 4 cm diameter gouge auger. A total of 135 soil samples were analyzed. Soil carbon density varied between 6.2 and 160.2 kg C m⁻³ with a mean value of 50.2 kg C m⁻³. Mean soil nitrogen density was 2.37 kg N m⁻³. Mean soil carbon and nitrogen stocks are 36.3 kg C m⁻² and 1.7 kg N m⁻². These new data are in the range of those encountered in other arctic peatlands. This new dataset, one of very few in Greenland, can contribute to further development of joint modeling of greenhouse gas emissions and soil carbon and nitrogen in land-surface models. The dataset is open-access and available at https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.909899 (Morel et al., 2019b). Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Climate change Greenland greenlandic Nuuk Jultika - University of Oulu repository Arctic Greenland Nuuk ENVELOPE(-52.150,-52.150,68.717,68.717) |
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Abstract Arctic and boreal peatlands play a major role in the global carbon (C) cycle. They are particularly efficient at sequestering carbon because their high water content limits decomposition rates to levels below their net primary productivity. Their future in a climate-change context is quite uncertain in terms of carbon emissions and carbon sequestration. Nuuk fen is a well-instrumented Greenlandic fen with monitoring of soil physical variables and greenhouse gas fluxes (CH₄ and CO₂) and is of particular interest for testing and validating land-surface models. But knowledge of soil carbon stocks and profiles is missing. This is a crucial shortcoming for a complete evaluation of models, as soil carbon is one of the primary drivers of CH₄ and CO₂ soil emissions. To address this issue, we measured, for the first time, soil carbon and nitrogen density, profiles and stocks in the Nuuk peatland (64∘07′51′′ N, 51∘23′10′′ W), colocated with the greenhouse gas measurements. Measurements were made along two transects, 60 and 90 m long and with a horizontal resolution of 5 m and a vertical resolution of 5 to 10 cm, using a 4 cm diameter gouge auger. A total of 135 soil samples were analyzed. Soil carbon density varied between 6.2 and 160.2 kg C m⁻³ with a mean value of 50.2 kg C m⁻³. Mean soil nitrogen density was 2.37 kg N m⁻³. Mean soil carbon and nitrogen stocks are 36.3 kg C m⁻² and 1.7 kg N m⁻². These new data are in the range of those encountered in other arctic peatlands. This new dataset, one of very few in Greenland, can contribute to further development of joint modeling of greenhouse gas emissions and soil carbon and nitrogen in land-surface models. The dataset is open-access and available at https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.909899 (Morel et al., 2019b). |
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Morel, X. (Xavier) Hansen, B. (Birger) Delire, C. (Christine) Ambus, P. (Per) Mastepanov, M. (Mikhail) Decharme, B. (Bertrand) A new dataset of soil carbon and nitrogen stocks and profiles from an instrumented Greenlandic fen designed to evaluate land-surface models |
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Morel, X. (Xavier) Hansen, B. (Birger) Delire, C. (Christine) Ambus, P. (Per) Mastepanov, M. (Mikhail) Decharme, B. (Bertrand) |
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A new dataset of soil carbon and nitrogen stocks and profiles from an instrumented Greenlandic fen designed to evaluate land-surface models |
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A new dataset of soil carbon and nitrogen stocks and profiles from an instrumented Greenlandic fen designed to evaluate land-surface models |
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A new dataset of soil carbon and nitrogen stocks and profiles from an instrumented Greenlandic fen designed to evaluate land-surface models |
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A new dataset of soil carbon and nitrogen stocks and profiles from an instrumented Greenlandic fen designed to evaluate land-surface models |
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A new dataset of soil carbon and nitrogen stocks and profiles from an instrumented Greenlandic fen designed to evaluate land-surface models |
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new dataset of soil carbon and nitrogen stocks and profiles from an instrumented greenlandic fen designed to evaluate land-surface models |
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Copernicus Publications |
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2020 |
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ENVELOPE(-52.150,-52.150,68.717,68.717) |
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Arctic Greenland Nuuk |
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Arctic Greenland Nuuk |
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Arctic Climate change Greenland greenlandic Nuuk |
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Arctic Climate change Greenland greenlandic Nuuk |
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