Raymond, Peter: Yale University (Project Lead)
Project Funding:
2011 - 2014
NRA: 2010 NASA: Carbon Cycle Science
Funded by NASA
Abstract:
The evasion of CO2 from streams and rivers is an integral component of the terrestrial carbon budget. Currently, however, it is difficult to explicitly include in terrestrial carbon budgets and models. This is partially due to a lack of understanding of what controls this flux, but also to the absence of stream and river CO2 data products available to terrestrial scientists. We propose that the data sets necessary to research the controls of stream and river CO2 evasion at large spatial scales and produce spatial maps of stream and river CO2 evasion in order to integrate this flux into appropriate models are now available for the United States.
Publications:
Raymond, P. A., Hartmann, J., Lauerwald, R., Sobek, S., McDonald, C., Hoover, M., Butman, D., Striegl, R., Mayorga, E., Humborg, C., Kortelainen, P., Durr, H., Meybeck, M., Ciais, P., Guth, P. 2013. Global carbon dioxide emissions from inland waters. Nature. 503(7476), 355-359. DOI: 10.1038/nature12760
Butman, D., Raymond, P. A. 2011. Significant efflux of carbon dioxide from streams and rivers in the United States. Nature Geoscience. 4(12), 839-842. DOI: 10.1038/NGEO1294
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