INFLUENCE OF THE UNDERLYING SURFACE ON GREENHOUSE GAS CONCENTRATIONS IN THE ATMOSPHERE OVER CENTRAL SIBERIA
A.V. URBAN1, A.S. PROKUSHKIN1, M.A. KORETS1, A.V. PANOV1, CH. GERBIG2, M. HEIMANN2
1Sukachev Institute of Forest, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences - a Separate Subdivision of the Federal Research Center "Krasnoyarsk Scientific Center of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences", 660036, Krasnoyarsk, Akademgorodok, 50, stroenie 28, Russia
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2Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, 07745, Jena, Hans-Knoell-Str. 10, Germany
gerbig@bgc-jena.mpg.de
Keywords: футпринт, обсерватория ZOTTO, RLC-карты, стохастическая транспортная модель STILT, углекислый газ, метан, footprint, ZOTTO observatory, RLC maps, Stochastic Time-Inverted Lagrangian Transport (STILT) model, carbon dioxide, methane
Abstract
A crucial issue in atmospheric studies on greenhouse gas content involves assessing the representativeness (footprint) having influence on their concentrations measured by tall towers. In this study, the Stochastic Time-Inverted Lagrangian Transport (STILT) model was used to estimate seasonal cumulative footprint climatology for greenhouse gases measurements obtained on the 301-meter-high Zotino Tall Tower Observation Facility (ZOTTO) for the growing seasons (May-September) from 2008 to 2012 (with the exception of 2011). Results showed that the ZOTTO seasonal concentration cumulative footprint climatology for four years reached 6.9×10 6 km 2 and the 75 % cumulative footprints varied from 1,9 to 2,3×10 6 km 2 . For the same period, the Russian Land Cover map based on MODIS data for 2014 was used to estimate the impact of land cover surrounding the ZOTTO tower on concentration measurements. The analysis showed that in the 75 % seasonal cumulative footprint the largest area is occupied by bogs, followed (in decreasing order) by larch, mixed, light-coniferous evergreen forests, grassland, and by other classes. Furthermore, analysis of the contributions from individual cells making up a footprint showed that the largest influ ence on formation of greenhouse gas concentrations as recorded by ZOTTO comes from the types of vegetation growing in the immediate vicinity of the tall tower, namely bogs, mixed forests, and light and dark coniferous forest stands.
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