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Liang and Yung, Isotopic Constraints on the Global Budget and Trend of Atmospheric Nitrous Oxide
Isotopic Constraints on the Isotopic Constraints on the Global Budget and Trend of Global Budget and Trend of Atmospheric Nitrous OxideAtmospheric Nitrous Oxide
Mao-Chang LiangResearch Center for Environmental Changes, Academia Sinica
Y. L. YungDivisions of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of
Technology
European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2009, Vienna, Austria, 19 – 24 April 2009
EGU 2009
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Courtesy of SJ Kao
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N N+ O-
nitrous oxide
14N14N16O (446) _ 14N15N16O (456) -- N 15N14N16O (546) -- N
14N14N18O (448) --18O(δ15N = ½ [δN + δN])
# Source: natural -- land -- ocean anthropogenic -- agriculture, fossil fuels & industry, biomass burning,… # Sink: (stratosphere) -- photolysis and chemistry (~160-220 nm)
N2O continues to increase in the atmosphere. However, contribution of each source is not well-quantified.
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Kim and Craig 1993
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Liang and Yung 2007
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(1) Ocean source = prescribed isotopic composition. (2) The isotopic composition of anthropogenic source = land source(3) Solve the mean isotopic composition of land for PRE. (4) Magnitude of the natural and anthropogenic sources are deduced. (5) The strength of STE does not vary.(6) The lifetimes do not vary with time.
Troposphere
F_ocean F_land
F_anthro.
F_sink
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Available measurements:
1. N2O trend
2. 18O
3. 15N ( and )
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(1) Ocean source = prescribed isotopic composition. (2) The isotopic composition of anthropogenic source = land source(3) Solve the mean isotopic composition of land for PRE. (4) Magnitude of the natural and anthropogenic sources are deduced. (5) The strength of STE does not vary.(6) The lifetimes do not vary with time.
Troposphere
F_ocean F_land
F_anthro.
F_sink
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Available measurements:
1. N2O trend
2. 18O
3. 15N ( and )
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x: Machida et al. [1995] +: Bernard et al. [2006]
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x: Rockmann and Levin [2005]x: Park et al. [2009]
Time evolution of δ18O(N2O) and δ15N (N2O)
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Sources and sinks
OC -- oceanLD -- landAN -- anthropogenicTotal = OC+LD+ANSK -- sinkTD -- trend
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150 GtC (Broecker 2007)
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Models
Source of N2O (in Tg N year-1) †
AR4 Baseline Model Standard Model Extended Model (E1)
Natural sources Soils under natural vegetation 6.6 5.2 5.2 5.2 Oceans 3.8 5 5 5 Atmospheric chemistry 0.6 0 0 0 Natural total 11 10.2 10.2 10.2 Anthropogenic sources
AG+ HE+ ADa 3.6 6.5 5.1 5.5
FF+ BB+ RE b 3.1 0 1.4 3.2 Anthropogenic total 6.7 6.5 6.5 8.7 Total sources 17.7 16.7 16.7 18.9
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Use the Caltech/JPL 2-D and MOZART/CAM-CHEM 3-D models for better estimates.
Better measurements are needed as present data have large errors.
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