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http://dx.doi.org/10.5532/KJAFM.2010.12.4.277

Air Sampling and Isotope Analyses of Water Vapor and CO2 using Multi-Level Profile System  

Lee, Dong-Ho (Department of Atmospheric Sciences/Gloal Environment Laboratory, Yonsei University)
Kim, Su-Jin (Department of Atmospheric Sciences/Gloal Environment Laboratory, Yonsei University)
Cheon, Jung-Hwa (Korea Forest Research Institute)
Kim, Joon (Department of Atmospheric Sciences/Gloal Environment Laboratory, Yonsei University)
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Korean Journal of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology / v.12, no.4, 2010 , pp. 277-288 More about this Journal
Abstract
The multi-level $H_2O/CO_2$ profile system has been widely used to quantify the storage and advection effects on energy and mass fluxes measured by eddy covariance systems. In this study, we expanded the utility of the profile system by accommodating air sampling devices for isotope analyses of water vapor and $CO_2$. A pre-evacuated 2L glass flask was connected to the discharge of an Infrared Gas Analyzer (IRGA) of the profile system so that airs with known concentration of $H_2O$ and $CO_2$ can be sampled. To test the performance of this sampling system, we sampled airs from 8 levels (from 0.1 to 40 m) at the KoFlux tower of Gwangneung deciduous forest, Korea. Air samples in the 2L flask were separated into its component gases and pure $H_2O$ and $CO_2$ were extracted by using a vacuum extraction line. This novel technique successfully produced vertical profiles of ${\delta}D$ of $H_2O$ and ${\delta}^{13}C$ of $CO_2$ in a mature forest, and estimated ${\delta}D$ of evapotranspiration (${\delta}D_{ET}$) and ${\delta}^{13}C$ of $CO_2$ from ecosystem respiration (${\delta}^{13}C_{resp}$) by using Keeling plots. While technical improvement is still required in various aspects, our sampling system has two major advantages over other proposed techniques. First, it is cost effective since our system uses the existing structure of the profile system. Second, both $CO_2$ and $H_2O$ can be sampled simultaneously so that net ecosystem exchange of $H_2O$ and $CO_2$ can be partitioned at the same temporal resolution, which will improve our understanding of the coupling between water and carbon cycles in terrestrial ecosystems.
Keywords
Multi-level profile system; Isotopes; Air sampling; $H_2O$; $CO_2$; Deciduous forest;
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