{"title":"Appreciating GBC 2023 Reviewers","authors":"Isaac Santos, Katsumi Matsumoto, Zanna Chase","doi":"10.1029/2024GB008211","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GB008211","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The Editors of the Global Biogeochemical Cycles express their appreciation to those who served as peer reviewers for the journal in 2023.</p>","PeriodicalId":12729,"journal":{"name":"Global Biogeochemical Cycles","volume":"38 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/2024GB008211","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140895246","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anh Le-Duy Pham, Pierre Damien, Daniel McCoy, Matthew Mar, Fayçal Kessouri, James C. McWilliams, James Moffett, Daniele Bianchi
{"title":"The Shelf-To-Basin Transport of Iron From the Northern U.S. West Coast to the Pacific Ocean","authors":"Anh Le-Duy Pham, Pierre Damien, Daniel McCoy, Matthew Mar, Fayçal Kessouri, James C. McWilliams, James Moffett, Daniele Bianchi","doi":"10.1029/2023GB008029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GB008029","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Release of iron (Fe) from continental shelves is a major source of this limiting nutrient for phytoplankton in the open ocean, including productive Eastern Boundary Upwelling Systems. The mechanisms governing the transport and fate of Fe along continental margins remain poorly understood, reflecting interaction of physical and biogeochemical processes that are crudely represented by global ocean biogeochemical models. Here, we use a submesoscale-permitting physical-biogeochemical model to investigate processes governing the delivery of shelf-derived Fe to the open ocean along the northern U.S. West Coast. We find that a significant fraction (∼20%) of the Fe released by sediments on the shelf is transported offshore, fertilizing the broader Northeast Pacific Ocean. This transport is governed by two main pathways that reflect interaction between the wind-driven ocean circulation and Fe release by low-oxygen sediments: the first in the surface boundary layer during upwelling events; the second in the bottom boundary layer, associated with pervasive interactions of the poleward California Undercurrent with bottom topography. In the water column interior, transient and standing eddies strengthen offshore transport, counteracting the onshore pull of the mean upwelling circulation. Several hot-spots of intense Fe delivery to the open ocean are maintained by standing meanders in the mean current and enhanced by transient eddies and seasonal oxygen depletion. Our results highlight the importance of fine-scale dynamics for the transport of Fe and shelf-derived elements from continental margins to the open ocean, and the need to improve representation of these processes in biogeochemical models used for climate studies.</p>","PeriodicalId":12729,"journal":{"name":"Global Biogeochemical Cycles","volume":"38 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140820553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Martin R. Kurek, Kimberly P. Wickland, Natalie A. Nichols, Amy M. McKenna, Steven M. Anderson, Mark M. Dornblaser, Nikaan Koupaei-Abyazani, Brett A. Poulin, Sheel Bansal, Jason B. Fellman, Gregory K. Druschel, Emily S. Bernhardt, Robert G. M. Spencer
{"title":"Linking Dissolved Organic Matter Composition to Landscape Properties in Wetlands Across the United States of America","authors":"Martin R. Kurek, Kimberly P. Wickland, Natalie A. Nichols, Amy M. McKenna, Steven M. Anderson, Mark M. Dornblaser, Nikaan Koupaei-Abyazani, Brett A. Poulin, Sheel Bansal, Jason B. Fellman, Gregory K. Druschel, Emily S. Bernhardt, Robert G. M. Spencer","doi":"10.1029/2023GB007917","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GB007917","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Wetlands are integral to the global carbon cycle, serving as both a source and a sink for organic carbon. Their potential for carbon storage will likely change in the coming decades in response to higher temperatures and variable precipitation patterns. We characterized the dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and dissolved organic matter (DOM) composition from 12 different wetland sites across the USA spanning gradients in climate, landcover, sampling depth, and hydroperiod for comparison to DOM in other inland waters. Using absorption spectroscopy, parallel factor analysis modeling, and ultra-high resolution mass spectroscopy, we identified differences in DOM sourcing and processing by geographic site. Wetland DOM composition was driven primarily by differences in landcover where forested sites contained greater aromatic and oxygenated DOM content compared to grassland/herbaceous sites which were more aliphatic and enriched in N and S molecular formulae. Furthermore, surface and porewater DOM was also influenced by properties such as soil type, organic matter content, and precipitation. Surface water DOM was relatively enriched in oxygenated higher molecular weight formulae representing HUP<sub>High O/C</sub> compounds than porewaters, whose DOM composition suggests abiotic sulfurization from dissolved inorganic sulfide. Finally, we identified a group of persistent molecular formulae (3,489) present across all sites and sampling depths (i.e., the signature of wetland DOM) that are likely important for riverine-to-coastal DOM transport. As anthropogenic disturbances continue to impact temperate wetlands, this study highlights drivers of DOM composition fundamental for understanding how wetland organic carbon will change, and thus its role in biogeochemical cycling.</p>","PeriodicalId":12729,"journal":{"name":"Global Biogeochemical Cycles","volume":"38 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140826150","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shasha Li, Hongliang Li, Tiantian Tang, Shanlin Wang
{"title":"The Ballast Effect of Terrigenous Lithogenic Particles From Rivers and Its Influence on POC Fluxes in the Ocean","authors":"Shasha Li, Hongliang Li, Tiantian Tang, Shanlin Wang","doi":"10.1029/2024GB008155","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GB008155","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Lithogenic materials such as terrigenous lithogenic particles (TLP) can efficiently promote the formation and sinking of mineral-associated marine organic matter, acting as important ballast and potentially playing an important role in the global carbon cycle. To assess the influence of TLP on fluxes of particulate organic carbon (POC) and other biogeochemical cycles, we construct TLP forcing fields based on global riverine suspended sediment data and then apply them to the Community Earth System Model, version 2 (CESM2) modified with the TLP ballasting effect term. Simulations forced by different concentrations of TLP transported in the surface ocean or along the bottom of continental shelves and slopes are conducted. When the TLP transports seaward along the bottom, simulated POC fluxes at 100 and 2,000 m decrease about 11% and 19%, respectively, for the global ocean, and about 9% and 12%, respectively, for the oceanic regions of continental margins. The initial abiotic ballast processes triggered by TLP input increase POC fluxes, causing additional removal and burial of dissolved iron in continental margins. This further enhances the accumulation of macronutrients in the upwelling regions and their advection transport to neighboring subtropical gyres, thus altering regional productivity when simulations reach quasi-equilibrium. When consider the impacts of TLP in simulations, the simulated POC flux exhibits an increase in subtropical gyres but a decrease in tropical Pacific and mid-high latitude regions. The present work highlights the importance of TLP in global biogeochemical cycles, suggesting that the amount of carbon sequestration might be overestimated without TLP in models.</p>","PeriodicalId":12729,"journal":{"name":"Global Biogeochemical Cycles","volume":"38 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140649542","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Anthropocene North Western Pacific Oceanography Recorded as Seasonal-Resolution Radiocarbon in Coral From Kikai Island, Japan","authors":"Yuning Zeng, Yusuke Yokoyama, Shoko Hirabayashi, Yosuke Miyairi, Atsushi Suzuki, Takahiro Aze, Yuta Kawakubo","doi":"10.1029/2023GB007927","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GB007927","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Radiocarbon (<sup>14</sup>C) in corals can be used as a relatively high-sensitivity indicator of vertical and horizontal advection of water masses, which contributes to the understanding of ocean circulation. In this study, we reconstruct Kuroshio and Ryukyu current transport with a seasonal resolution Δ<sup>14</sup>C record spanning 1947–2009. This record covers the beginning of the atomic era and was obtained from a coral on Kikai Island in the south of Japan. The Kikai Δ<sup>14</sup>C curve features a newly discovered Δ<sup>14</sup>C spike in July 1955, a rapid increase after 1962, and a steady decrease after 1980. The spike in 1955 may directly reflect ocean current transport. The lack of periodicity in the Δ<sup>14</sup>C record suggests the existence of mesoscale eddies and the complexity of Kuroshio and Ryukyu current transport. In addition, comparing the high-resolution Δ<sup>14</sup>C of Kikai and Ishigaki islands, both situated along the path of the Kuroshio, reveals the influence of Pacific Decadal Oscillation and El Niño-Southern Oscillation on the Kuroshio and Ryukyu currents. This suggests that seasonally resolved Δ<sup>14</sup>C in corals along an ocean current can produce a long-term record of ocean mixing that responds to climate variability.</p>","PeriodicalId":12729,"journal":{"name":"Global Biogeochemical Cycles","volume":"38 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/2023GB007927","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140633811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fiz F. Pérez, M. Becker, N. Goris, M. Gehlen, M. López-Mozos, J. Tjiputra, A. Olsen, J. D. Müller, I. E. Huertas, T. T. T. Chau, V. Cainzos, A. Velo, G. Benard, J. Hauck, N. Gruber, Rik Wanninkhof
{"title":"An Assessment of CO2 Storage and Sea-Air Fluxes for the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea Between 1985 and 2018","authors":"Fiz F. Pérez, M. Becker, N. Goris, M. Gehlen, M. López-Mozos, J. Tjiputra, A. Olsen, J. D. Müller, I. E. Huertas, T. T. T. Chau, V. Cainzos, A. Velo, G. Benard, J. Hauck, N. Gruber, Rik Wanninkhof","doi":"10.1029/2023GB007862","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GB007862","url":null,"abstract":"<p>As part of the second phase of the Regional Carbon Cycle Assessment and Processes project (RECCAP2), we present an assessment of the carbon cycle of the Atlantic Ocean, including the Mediterranean Sea, between 1985 and 2018 using global ocean biogeochemical models (GOBMs) and estimates based on surface ocean carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2</sub>) partial pressure (pCO<sub>2</sub> products) and ocean interior dissolved inorganic carbon observations. Estimates of the basin-wide long-term mean net annual CO<sub>2</sub> uptake based on GOBMs and pCO<sub>2</sub> products are in reasonable agreement (−0.47 ± 0.15 PgC yr<sup>−1</sup> and −0.36 ± 0.06 PgC yr<sup>−1</sup>, respectively), with the higher uptake in the GOBM-based estimates likely being a consequence of a deficit in the representation of natural outgassing of land derived carbon. In the GOBMs, the CO<sub>2</sub> uptake increases with time at rates close to what one would expect from the atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub> increase, but pCO<sub>2</sub> products estimate a rate twice as fast. The largest disagreement in the CO<sub>2</sub> flux between GOBMs and pCO<sub>2</sub> products is found north of 50°N, coinciding with the largest disagreement in the seasonal cycle and interannual variability. The mean accumulation rate of anthropogenic CO<sub>2</sub> (C<sub>ant</sub>) over 1994–2007 in the Atlantic Ocean is 0.52 ± 0.11 PgC yr<sup>−1</sup> according to the GOBMs, 28% ± 20% lower than that derived from observations. Around 70% of this C<sub>ant</sub> is taken up from the atmosphere, while the remainder is imported from the Southern Ocean through lateral transport.</p>","PeriodicalId":12729,"journal":{"name":"Global Biogeochemical Cycles","volume":"38 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/2023GB007862","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140621369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pierre Taillardat, Annika Linkhorst, Charles P. Deblois, Antonin Prijac, Laure Gandois, Alain Tremblay, Michelle Garneau
{"title":"A Carbon Source in a Carbon Sink: Carbon Dioxide and Methane Dynamics in Open-Water Peatland Pools","authors":"Pierre Taillardat, Annika Linkhorst, Charles P. Deblois, Antonin Prijac, Laure Gandois, Alain Tremblay, Michelle Garneau","doi":"10.1029/2023GB007909","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GB007909","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Peatlands store organic carbon available for decomposition and transfer to neighboring water bodies, which can ultimately generate carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2</sub>) and methane (CH<sub>4</sub>) emissions. The objective of this study was to clarify the biogeochemical functioning of open-water peatland pools and their influence on carbon budgets at the ecosystem and global scale. Continuously operated automated equipment and monthly manual measurements were used to describe the CO<sub>2</sub> and CH<sub>4</sub> dynamics in boreal ombrotrophic peatland pools and porewater (Québec, Canada) over the growing seasons 2019 and 2020. The peat porewater stable carbon isotope ratios (δ<sup>13</sup>C) for both CO<sub>2</sub> (median δ<sup>13</sup>C-CO<sub>2</sub>: −3.8‰) and CH<sub>4</sub> (median δ<sup>13</sup>C-CH<sub>4</sub>: −64.30‰) suggested that hydrogenotrophic methanogenesis was the predominant degradation pathway in peat. Open-water pools were supersaturated in CO<sub>2</sub> and CH<sub>4</sub> and received most of these dissolved carbon greenhouse gases (C-GHG) from peat porewater input. Throughout the growing season, higher CO<sub>2</sub> concentrations and fluxes in pools were measured when the water table was low—suggesting a steady release of CO<sub>2</sub> from deep peat porewater. Higher CH<sub>4</sub> ebullition and diffusion occurred in August when bottom water and peat temperatures were the highest. While this study demonstrates that peatland pools are chimneys of CO<sub>2</sub> and CH<sub>4</sub> stored in peat, it also shows that the C-GHG concentrations and flux rates in peat pools are comparable to other aquatic systems of the same size. Although peatlands are often considered uniform entities, our study highlights their biogeochemical heterogeneity, which, if considered, substantially influences their net carbon balance with the atmosphere.</p>","PeriodicalId":12729,"journal":{"name":"Global Biogeochemical Cycles","volume":"38 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/2023GB007909","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140556228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sarah Paradis, Markus Diesing, Hannah Gies, Negar Haghipour, Lena Narman, Clayton Magill, Thomas Wagner, Valier V. Galy, Pengfei Hou, Meixun Zhao, Jung-Hyun Kim, Kyung-Hoon Shin, Baozhi Lin, Zhifei Liu, Martin G. Wiesner, Karl Stattegger, Jianfang Chen, Jingjing Zhang, Timothy I. Eglinton
{"title":"Unraveling Environmental Forces Shaping Surface Sediment Geochemical “Isodrapes” in the East Asian Marginal Seas","authors":"Sarah Paradis, Markus Diesing, Hannah Gies, Negar Haghipour, Lena Narman, Clayton Magill, Thomas Wagner, Valier V. Galy, Pengfei Hou, Meixun Zhao, Jung-Hyun Kim, Kyung-Hoon Shin, Baozhi Lin, Zhifei Liu, Martin G. Wiesner, Karl Stattegger, Jianfang Chen, Jingjing Zhang, Timothy I. Eglinton","doi":"10.1029/2023GB007839","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GB007839","url":null,"abstract":"<p>As major sites of carbon burial and remineralization, continental margins are key components of the global carbon cycle. However, heterogeneous sources of organic matter (OM) and depositional environments lead to complex spatial patterns in sedimentary organic carbon (OC) content and composition. To better constrain the processes that control OM cycling, we focus on the East Asian marginal seas as a model system, where we compiled extensive data on the OC content, bulk isotopic composition (δ<sup>13</sup>C and Δ<sup>14</sup>C), total nitrogen, and mineral surface area of surficial sediments from previous studies and new measurements. We developed a spatial machine learning modeling framework to predict the spatial distribution of these parameters and identify regions where sediments with similar geochemical signatures drape the seafloor (i.e., <i>“isodrapes”</i>). We demonstrate that both provenance (44%–77%) and hydrodynamic processes (22%–53%) govern the fate of OM in this margin. Hydrodynamic processes can either promote the degradation of OM in mobile mud-belts or preserve it in stable mud-deposits. The distinct isotopic composition of OC sources from marine productivity and individual rivers regulates the age and reactivity of OM deposited on the sea-floor. The East Asian marginal seas can be separated into three main <i>isodrapes</i>: hydrodynamically energetic shelves with coarser-grained sediment depleted in OC, OM-enriched mud deposits, and a deep basin with fine-grained sediments and aged OC affected by long oxygen exposure times and petrogenic input from rivers. This study confirms that both hydrodynamic processes and provenance should be accounted for to understand the fate of OC in continental margins.</p>","PeriodicalId":12729,"journal":{"name":"Global Biogeochemical Cycles","volume":"38 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/2023GB007839","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140345710","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yolandi Ernst, Sally Archibald, Heiko Balzter, Frederic Chevallier, Philippe Ciais, Carlos Gonzalez Fischer, Benjamin Gaubert, Thomas Higginbottom, Steven Higgins, Shakirudeen Lawal, Fabrice Lacroix, Ronny Lauerwald, Mauro Lourenco, Carola Martens, Anteneh G. Mengistu, Lutz Merbold, Edward Mitchard, Mthokozisi Moyo, Hannah Nguyen, Michael O’Sullivan, Pedro Rodríguez-Veiga, Thais Rosan, Judith Rosentreter, Casey Ryan, Simon Scheiter, Stephen Sitch, Nicola Stevens, Torbern Tagesson, Hanqin Tian, Mengjia Wang, Joel S. Woon, Bo Zheng, Yong Zhou, Robert J. Scholes
{"title":"The African Regional Greenhouse Gases Budget (2010–2019)","authors":"Yolandi Ernst, Sally Archibald, Heiko Balzter, Frederic Chevallier, Philippe Ciais, Carlos Gonzalez Fischer, Benjamin Gaubert, Thomas Higginbottom, Steven Higgins, Shakirudeen Lawal, Fabrice Lacroix, Ronny Lauerwald, Mauro Lourenco, Carola Martens, Anteneh G. Mengistu, Lutz Merbold, Edward Mitchard, Mthokozisi Moyo, Hannah Nguyen, Michael O’Sullivan, Pedro Rodríguez-Veiga, Thais Rosan, Judith Rosentreter, Casey Ryan, Simon Scheiter, Stephen Sitch, Nicola Stevens, Torbern Tagesson, Hanqin Tian, Mengjia Wang, Joel S. Woon, Bo Zheng, Yong Zhou, Robert J. Scholes","doi":"10.1029/2023GB008016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GB008016","url":null,"abstract":"<p>As part of the REgional Carbon Cycle Assessment and Processes Phase 2 (RECCAP2) project, we developed a comprehensive African Greenhouse gases (GHG) budget covering 2000 to 2019 (RECCAP1 and RECCAP2 time periods), and assessed uncertainties and trends over time. We compared bottom-up process-based models, data-driven remotely sensed products, and national GHG inventories with top-down atmospheric inversions, accounting also for lateral fluxes. We incorporated emission estimates derived from novel methodologies for termites, herbivores, and fire, which are particularly important in Africa. We further constrained global woody biomass change products with high-quality regional observations. During the RECCAP2 period, Africa's carbon sink capacity is decreasing, with net ecosystem exchange switching from a small sink of −0.61 ± 0.58 PgC yr<sup>−1</sup> in RECCAP1 to a small source in RECCAP2 at 0.16 (−0.52/1.36) PgC yr<sup>−1</sup>. Net CO<sub>2</sub> emissions estimated from bottom-up approaches were 1.6 (−0.9/5.8) PgCO<sub>2</sub> yr<sup>−1</sup>, net CH<sub>4</sub> were 77 (56.4/93.9) TgCH<sub>4</sub> yr<sup>−1</sup> and net N<sub>2</sub>O were 2.9 (1.4/4.9) TgN<sub>2</sub>O yr<sup>−1</sup>. Top-down atmospheric inversions showed similar trends. Land Use Change emissions increased, representing one of the largest contributions at 1.7 (0.8/2.7) PgCO<sub>2</sub>eq yr<sup>−1</sup> to the African GHG budget and almost similar to emissions from fossil fuels at 1.74 (1.53/1.96) PgCO<sub>2</sub>eq yr<sup>−1</sup>, which also increased from RECCAP1. Additionally, wildfire emissions decreased, while fuelwood burning increased. For most component fluxes, uncertainty is large, highlighting the need for increased efforts to address Africa-specific data gaps. However, for RECCAP2, we improved our overall understanding of many of the important components of the African GHG budget that will assist to inform climate policy and action.</p>","PeriodicalId":12729,"journal":{"name":"Global Biogeochemical Cycles","volume":"38 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/2023GB008016","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140342987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yang Li, Genxu Wang, Shouqin Sun, Shan Lin, Peng Huang, Jinwang Xiao, Linmao Guo, Jinlong Li, Chunlin Song
{"title":"Methane Emissions From the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Ponds and Lakes: Roles of Ice Thaw and Vegetation Zone","authors":"Yang Li, Genxu Wang, Shouqin Sun, Shan Lin, Peng Huang, Jinwang Xiao, Linmao Guo, Jinlong Li, Chunlin Song","doi":"10.1029/2024GB008106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GB008106","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Comprehensive seasonal observation is essential for accurately quantifying methane (CH<sub>4</sub>) emissions from ponds and lakes in permafrost regions. Although CH<sub>4</sub> emissions during ice thaw are important and highly variable in high-latitude freshwater ponds and lakes (north of ∼50°N), their contribution is seldom included in estimates of aquatic-atmospheric CH<sub>4</sub> exchange across different alpine ecosystems. Here, we characterized annual CH<sub>4</sub> emissions, including emissions during ice thaw, from ponds and lakes across four alpine vegetation zones in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP) permafrost region. We observed significant spatial variability in annual CH<sub>4</sub> emission rates (8.44−421.05 mmol m<sup>−2</sup> yr<sup>−1</sup>), CH<sub>4</sub> emission rates during ice thaw (0.26−144.39 mmol m<sup>−2</sup> yr<sup>−1</sup>), and the contribution of CH<sub>4</sub> emissions during ice thaw to annual emissions (3−33%) across different vegetation zones. Dissolved oxygen concentration under ice, along with substrate availability and water salinity, played critical roles in influencing CH<sub>4</sub> flux during ice thaw. We estimated annual CH<sub>4</sub> emissions from ponds and lakes in the QTP permafrost region as 0.04 (0.03−0.05) Tg CH<sub>4</sub> yr<sup>−1</sup> (median (first quartile−third quartile)), with approximately 20% occurring during ice thaw. Notably, the average areal CH<sub>4</sub> emission rate from ponds and lakes in the QTP permafrost region amounts to only 8% of that from high-latitude waterbodies, primarily due to the dominance of large saline lakes with lower CH<sub>4</sub> emission rates in the alpine permafrost region. Our findings emphasize the significance of incorporating comprehensive seasonal observation of CH<sub>4</sub> emissions across different vegetation zones in better predicting CH<sub>4</sub> emissions from alpine ponds and lakes.</p>","PeriodicalId":12729,"journal":{"name":"Global Biogeochemical Cycles","volume":"38 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140345786","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}