Precision and accuracy of in situ tower based carbon cycle concentration networks required for detection of the effects of extreme climate events on regional.

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Precision and accuracy of in situ tower based carbon cycle concentration networks required for detection of the effects of extreme climate events on regional carbon cycling Ankur R Desai, Arlyn Andrews, Britt Stephens, Bjorn Brooks, Dong Hua, and many other collaborators…

Questions What is required of continental atmospheric greenhosue gas observations for observing regional carbon fluxes? – More specifically, observing response of these fluxes to extreme climate events or other significant changes? – Further, to what extent can we disentangle “well- mixed” measurements to detect regional hotspots (or cold spots) of terrestrial sinks and sources?

M Reichstein et al. Nature 500, (2013) doi: /nature12350 Processes and feedbacks triggered by extreme climate events.

Outline Building a tower network with sufficient reliability and accuracy Example 1. Simulations of drought impacts on atmospheric CO 2 Example 2. Detection of large-scale insect disturbance on forest productivity and decomposition Example 3. Searching for hot-spots of inland water carbon emissions Summary and recommendations

Building a tower network From: Andrews, A.E. et al., CO2, CO and CH4 measurements from the NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory's Tall Tower Greenhouse Gas Observing Network: instrumentation, uncertainty analysis and recommendations for future high- accuracy greenhouse gas monitoring efforts. Atmos. Meas. Tech. Discuss., 6, , doi: /amtd

Well-calibrated North American CO 2 sites

Seasonaility enhanced by dynamic boundary layer and large seasonal flux signal Mauna Loa Park Falls

Diurnal amplitudes are a function of height and time of day 30 m 122 m 396 m Park Falls, WLEF

Flask sampling is relatively straightforward

Continuous is a wee bit more complicated NOAA ESRL system based on LI-7000

Target tank calibration sequence

Dwell time matters

Targets Can generally sample 5-minute concentrations to within 0.1 ppm using NOAA ESRL tall tower sampling system Primary sources of uncertainty: – WMO calibration scale (0.069 ppm) – short-term precision (u p ) (0.004 ppm) + atmospheric variability within sample interval (0.2-1 ppm) – Baseline drift (u b ) (0.006 ppm) – Calibration curve fitting (u f ) (0.038 ppm) + extrapolation beyond fit (u ex ) (~0 ppm) – Sample gas equillibriation (u eq ) (~0 ppm) – Water vapor dilution (u wv ) (0.001 ppm) – Contamination/leaks (??) – Net uncertainty ~0.007 ppm – Total error – ppm – Target tank bias – ppm – 30-s std dev – ppm σ u 2 = u p 2 + u b 2 + u ex 2 + u eq 2 + u wv 2

Example 1. Drought Brooks, Hua, Desai, et al., in prep

Schwalm et al., Nature Geosci

Inverse models (CarbonTracker) are sensitivity to mountaintop CO 2 From B. Brooks

What are we looking at?

Drought simulation experiment

Persistent drought related emission enhances atmospheric CO2, but size and location effects detectability Increasing drought extent  Location Detection limit Hidden Peak, Utah

As does sensor position (OSSEs are essential) Increasing drought extent  Location Detection limit Storm Peak Lab, Colorado

Example 2. Insects! Hicke et al., 2012, Global Change Biol. Moore, D.J.P., et al., Persistent reduced ecosystem respiration after insect disturbance in high elevation forests. Ecol. Letters, 16, 731–737, doi: /ele

A single valley of death

And its consequences to the atmosphere

Relative changes to respiration and photosynthesis derived from concentration measurements + models

Example 3. Inland waters as hotspots? Vasys, V.N., et al., Influence of large lake carbon exchange on regional tracer transport inversions. Environmental Research Letters, doi: / /6/3/

Tower “sees” the lake

Imposed flux - water Influence Flux - land Net influence

Summary and recommendations Calibration is essential for continuous monitoring as is profiling. 0.1 ppm accuracy of CO 2 at 5 minute intervals with near zero drift is now feasible and about the level needed for regional flux quantification Detection of effect of extreme events on fluxes may be easier than capturing only mean fluxes Not every location needs to sample only well-mixed continental air masses Hotspot detection can lead to surprising results and provide clarity for setting inversion priors Transport may be the limiting factor more than observation!

Thank you Collaborators: J. Kofler (NOAA), J. Thom (UW), A. Michalak (Carnegie Inst), K. Davis (Penn State), D. Moore (U Arizona), D. Huntzinger (NAU), A. Watt (NCAR), V. Vasys, tower monkeys, spectroscopy wizards, inversion gurus Funding: NOAA (CPO NA09OAR and NA080AR ), NSF (DEB‐ ), DOE (TES #ER65077)