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2. Can we gain knowledge on COS anthropogenic and biogenic emissions from a single atmospheric mixing ratios measurement site?
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Berchet, Antoine, Pison, Isabelle, Huselstein, Camille, Narbaud, Clément, Remaud, Marine, Belviso, Sauveur, Abadie, Camille, and Maignan, Fabienne
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EMISSIONS (Air pollution) ,EMISSION inventories ,COAL-fired power plants ,TIME series analysis ,POWER plants ,VISCOSE ,PARAMETERIZATION - Abstract
Lack of knowledge still remains on many processes leading to COS atmospheric fluxes, either natural such as the oceanic emissions or the vegetation and soil fluxes, or anthropogenic, from industrial activities and power generation. Moreover, COS atmospheric mixing ratio data are still too sparse to evaluate the estimations of these sources and sinks. This study assesses the anthropogenic and biogenic COS fluxes at the regional scale, in the footprint a measurement site in Western Europe, at a seasonal to diurnal time resolution over half a decade. The continuous time series of COS mixing ratios obtained at the monitoring site of Gif-sur-Yvette (in the Paris area) from August 2014 to December 2019 are compared to simulations with the Lagrangian model FLEXPART, transporting oceanic emissions, biogenic land fluxes from the process-model ORCHIDEE and anthropogenic emissions by two different inventories. The anthropogenic emission inventory based on reported industrial emissions and the characteristics of coal power plants in Europe is consistent with the observations. The flat temporal variability applied to anthropogenic fluxes due to lack of information on industrial and power-generation activity in viscose factories and coal-power plants and the potential mismatches in the representation of the plumes emitted from these hot-spots in the model are the main limitations of this inventory. We find that the net ecosystem COS uptake simulated by ORCHIDEE is underestimated in winter at night, which suggests improvements in the parameterization of the nighttime uptake by plants for COS. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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3. Simulating the variations of carbon dioxide in the global atmosphere on the hexagonal grid of DYNAMICO coupled with the LMDZ6 model.
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Lloret, Zoé, Chevallier, Frédéric, Cozic, Anne, Remaud, Marine, and Meurdesoif, Yann
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ATMOSPHERIC carbon dioxide ,GENERAL circulation model ,CARBON cycle ,DIGITAL filters (Mathematics) ,ATMOSPHERIC models ,ATMOSPHERE ,QUASI-biennial oscillation (Meteorology) - Abstract
Efforts to monitor the emissions and absorptions of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO
2 ) over the globe and to understand their varying regional patterns with greater accuracy have intensified in recent years. This study evaluates the performance of a new model coupling, ICO, built around the Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique atmospheric general circulation model (LMDZ) for simulating CO2 transport. ICO utilizes the new icosahedral hydrostatic dynamical core called Dynamico running on an unstructured grid, which enables potential improvements in spatial resolution at the Equator while removing artificial distortions and numerical filters at the poles. Comparisons with a reference configuration using a structured latitude-longitude grid reveal that ICO well captures seasonal variations in CO2 concentrations at surface stations. While not significantly enhancing the capture of complex seasonal patterns, ICO maintains comparable accuracy. Both configurations exhibit similar vertical CO2 concentration profiles and display a consistent bias in the lower stratosphere relative to observational data. ICO demonstrates advantages in computational efficiency and storage, thanks to its reduced cell count per level and a homogeneous grid structure. It holds promise for future developments, including with the LMDZ offline model and associated inversion system, which contribute to the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service. Overall, the ICO configuration showcases the efficacy of utilizing an unstructured grid for the physics, and the capability of Dynamico in accurately simulating CO2 transport. This study emphasizes the importance of advanced modeling approaches and high-resolution innovative grids in enhancing our understanding of the global carbon cycle and refining climate models. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2023
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4. Intercomparison of Atmospheric Carbonyl Sulfide (TransCom‐COS): 2. Evaluation of Optimized Fluxes Using Ground‐Based and Aircraft Observations.
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Ma, Jin, Remaud, Marine, Peylin, Philippe, Patra, Prabir, Niwa, Yosuke, Rodenbeck, Christian, Cartwright, Mike, Harrison, Jeremy J., Chipperfield, Martyn P., Pope, Richard J., Wilson, Christopher, Belviso, Sauveur, Montzka, Stephen A., Vimont, Isaac, Moore, Fred, Atlas, Elliot L., Schwartz, Efrat, and Krol, Maarten C.
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ATMOSPHERIC models ,ATMOSPHERIC transport ,MODEL airplanes ,SULFIDES ,CHEMICAL models ,TROPOSPHERIC chemistry - Abstract
We present a comparison of atmospheric transport models that simulate carbonyl sulfide (COS). This is part II of the ongoing Atmospheric Transport Model Inter‐comparison Project (TransCom–COS). Differently from part I, we focus on seven model intercomparison by transporting two recent COS inversions of NOAA surface data within TM5‐4DVAR and LMDz models. The main goals of TransCom‐COS part II are (a) to compare the COS simulations using the two sets of optimized fluxes with simulations that use a control scenario (part I) and (b) to evaluate the simulated tropospheric COS abundance with aircraft‐based observations from various sources. The output of the seven transport models are grouped in terms of their vertical mixing strength: strong and weak mixing. The results indicate that all transport models capture the meridional distribution of COS at the surface well. Model simulations generally match the aircraft campaigns HIAPER Pole‐To‐Pole Observations (HIPPO) and Atmospheric Tomography Mission (ATom). Comparisons to HIPPO and ATom demonstrate a gap between observed and modeled COS over the Pacific Ocean at 0–40°N, indicating a potential missing source in the free troposphere. The effects of seasonal continental COS uptake by the biosphere, observed on HIPPO and ATom over oceans, is well reproduced by the simulations. We found that the strength of the vertical mixing within the column as represented in the various atmospheric transport models explains much of the model to model differences. We also found that weak‐mixing models transporting the optimized flux derived from the strong‐mixing TM5 model show a too strong seasonal cycle at high latitudes. Plain Language Summary: Carbonyl sulfide (COS) is a significant sulfur‐containing trace gas in the atmosphere, which makes it important for studying climate change. One of the reasons it is worth investigating is because plants take up COS in a similar way as CO2 during photosynthesis. However, the atmospheric sources and sinks of COS are not well understood. To address this knowledge gap, we evaluated the state‐of‐the‐art optimized surface COS fluxes from the inverse models TM5‐4DVAR and LMDz, and then seven atmospheric transport models were used to simulate COS mole fractions by transporting the optimized fluxes under the TransCom‐COS protocol. The results showed good agreement between the simulated COS and COS observations on independent platforms. The study also revealed that COS drawdown due to plant uptake can be observed over Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. However, discrepancies between the model simulations and observations were mainly found in free troposphere, emphasizing the need for further investigation into COS chemistry and model transport differences. These findings provide important reference for further investigation of COS global distribution and budget analysis. Key Points: Simulations in seven models propagating optimized carbonyl sulfide (COS) fluxes derived from two inversions agree with independent observationsSimulated and observed COS drawdowns are captured in boundary layer over the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans due to plant uptake over landsWeak vertical mixing models using fluxes optimized from the fast‐mixing TM5 model overestimate the COS seasonal amplitude at high latitudes [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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5. National CO2 budgets (2015–2020) inferred from atmospheric CO2 observations in support of the global stocktake
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Byrne, Brendan, Baker, David F., Basu, Sourish, Bertolacci, Michael, Bowman, Kevin W., Carroll, Dustin, Chatterjee, Abhishek, Chevallier, Frédéric, Ciais, Philippe, Cressie, Noel, Crisp, David, Crowell, Sean, Deng, Feng, Deng, Zhu, Deutscher, Nicholas Michael, Dubey, Manvendra K., Feng, Sha, García Rodríguez, Omaira Elena, Griffith, David W. T., Herkommer, Benedikt, Hu, Lei, Jacobson, Andrew R., Janardanan, Rajesh, Jeong, Sujong, Johnson, Matthew S., Jones, Dylan B. A., Kivi, Rigel, Liu, Junjie, Liu, Zhiqiang, Maksyutov, Shamil, Miller, John B., Morino, Isamu, Notholt, Justus, Oda, Tomohiro, O'Dell, Christopher, Oh, Young-Suk, Ohyama, Hirofumi, Patra, Prabir K., Peiro, Hélène, Petri, Christof, Philip, Sajeev, Pollard, David F., Poulter, Benjamin, Remaud, Marine, Schuh, Andrew, Sha, Mahesh Kumar, Shiomi, Kei, Strong, Kimberly, Sweeney, Colm, Te, Yao, Tian, Hanqin, Velazco, Voltaire A., Vrekoussis, Mihalis, Warneke, Thorsten, Worden, John, Wunch, Debra, Yao, Yuamzhi, Yun, Jeongmin, Zammit Mangion, Andrew, and Zeng, Ning
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Temperature increase ,Carbon dioxide emission ,Climate change - Abstract
Accurate accounting of emissions and removals of CO2 is critical for the planning and verification of emission reduction targets in support of the Paris Agreement. Here, we present a pilot dataset of country-specific net carbon exchange (NCE; fossil plus terrestrial ecosystem fluxes) and terrestrial carbon stock changes aimed at informing countries’ carbon budgets. These estimates are based on “top-down” NCE outputs from the v10 Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO-2) modeling intercomparison project (MIP), wherein an ensemble of inverse modeling groups conducted standardized experiments assimilating OCO-2 column-averaged dry-air mole fraction (XCO2 ) retrievals (ACOS v10), in situ CO2 measurements or combinations of these data. The v10 OCO-2 MIP NCE estimates are combined with “bottom-up” estimates of fossil fuel emissions and lateral carbon fluxes to estimate changes in terrestrial carbon stocks, which are impacted by anthropogenic and natural drivers. These flux and stock change estimates are reported annually (2015–2020) as both a global 1◦ × 1 ◦ gridded dataset and a country-level dataset and are available for download from the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites’ (CEOS) website: https://doi.org/10.48588/npf6-sw92 (Byrne et al., 2022). Across the v10 OCO-2 MIP experiments, we obtain increases in the ensemble median terrestrial carbon stocks of 3.29–4.58 PgCO2 yr−1 (0.90–1.25 PgC yr−1 ). This is a result of broad increases in terrestrial carbon stocks across the northern extratropics, while the tropics generally have stock losses but with considerable regional variability and differences between v10 OCO-2 MIP experiments. We discuss the state of the science for tracking emissions and removals using top-down methods, including current limitations and future developments towards top-down monitoring and verification systems. This research has been supported by the European Commission, Horizon 2020 Framework Programme (CoCO2 (grant no. 958927 856612/EMME-CARE)) and Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (grant no. CAMS73), the Australian Research Council (grant nos. DP190100180, DE180100203, DP160100598, LE0668470, DP140101552, DP110103118, DP0879468 and FT180100327), the Environmental Restoration and Conservation Agency (grant no. JPMEERF21S20800), the Korea Meteorological Administration (grant no. KMA2018-00320), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (grant nos. 20-OCOST20-0004, 80NSSC18K0908, 80NSSC18K0976, 80NSSC20K0006, 80NSSC21K1068, 80NSSC21K1073, 80NSSC21K1077, 80NSSC21K1080, 80HQTR21T0069, NAG512247, NNG05GD07G, NNH17ZDA001N-OCO2 and NNX15AG93G), and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (grant no. NA18OAR4310266).
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- 2023
6. Carbon and Water Fluxes of the Boreal Evergreen Needleleaf Forest Biome Constrained by Assimilating Ecosystem Carbonyl Sulfide Flux Observations.
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Abadie, Camille, Maignan, Fabienne, Remaud, Marine, Kohonen, Kukka‐Maaria, Sun, Wu, Kooijmans, Linda, Vesala, Timo, Seibt, Ulli, Raoult, Nina, Bastrikov, Vladislav, Belviso, Sauveur, and Peylin, Philippe
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ECOSYSTEMS ,TAIGAS ,TRACE gases ,BIOMES ,EVERGREENS ,SULFIDES ,CLEARCUTTING - Abstract
Gross primary production (GPP) by boreal forests is highly sensitive to environmental changes. However, GPP simulated by land surface models (LSMs) remains highly uncertain due to the lack of direct photosynthesis observations at large scales. Carbonyl sulfide (COS) has emerged as a promising proxy to improve the representation of GPP in LSMs. Because COS is absorbed by vegetation following the same diffusion pathway as CO2 during photosynthesis and not emitted back to the atmosphere, incorporating a mechanistic representation of vegetation COS uptake in LSMs allows using COS observations to refine GPP representation. Here, we perform ecosystem COS flux and GPP data assimilations to constrain the COS‐ and GPP‐related parameters in the ORCHIDEE LSM for boreal evergreen needleleaf forests (BorENF). Assimilating ecosystem COS fluxes at Hyytiälä forest increases the simulated net ecosystem COS uptake by 14%. This increase largely results from changes in the internal conductance to COS, highlighting the need to improve the representation of COS internal diffusion and consumption. Moreover, joint assimilation of ecosystem COS flux and GPP at Hyytiälä improves the simulated latent heat flux, contrary to the GPP‐only data assimilation, which fails to do so. Finally, we scaled this assimilation framework up to the boreal region and find that the joint assimilation of COS at Hyytiälä and GPP fluxes at 10 BorENF sites increases the modeled vegetation COS uptake up to 18%, but not GPP. Therefore, this study encourages the use of COS flux observations to inform GPP and latent heat flux representations in LSMs. Plain Language Summary: Carbon uptake by boreal forests is highly sensitive to environmental changes. There is large uncertainty about how much carbon dioxide (CO2) boreal forests absorb through photosynthesis, as represented by land surface models. Carbonyl sulfide (COS), a trace gas that tracks photosynthesis, can help improve the representation of simulated plant CO2 uptake because COS and CO2 share a common pathway during leaf uptake. Using a mechanistic model of biospheric COS processes implemented in the ORCHIDEE land surface model, we assimilated ecosystem COS flux and plant CO2 uptake measured at Hyytiälä boreal forest. We find that this joint assimilation improves the simulated plant CO2 uptake, as well as transpiration because of the strong link between COS, CO2 and H2O fluxes through stomatal diffusion. Scaling up this assimilation framework to evergreen needleleaf boreal forests, we find that assimilating ecosystem COS flux and plant CO2 uptake data increases the vegetation COS uptake for this biome, but not plant CO2 uptake. Our results imply that COS has the potential to constrain both plant carbon uptake and transpiration in land surface models, which should be further investigated, especially during drought events. Key Points: Jointly assimilating ecosystem carbonyl sulfide (COS) flux and gross primary production data improves both simulated plant carbon uptake and transpirationAssimilating ecosystem COS flux does not increase gross primary production (GPP) over boreal evergreen needleleaf forests, in contrast with previous inversion studiesCOS flux observations help to identify misrepresentation of the sensitivity of GPP to droughts in models [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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7. Intercomparison of Atmospheric Carbonyl Sulfide (TransCom‐COS; Part One): Evaluating the Impact of Transport and Emissions on Tropospheric Variability Using Ground‐Based and Aircraft Data.
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Remaud, Marine, Ma, Jin, Krol, Maarten, Abadie, Camille, Cartwright, Michael P., Patra, Prabir, Niwa, Yosuke, Rodenbeck, Christian, Belviso, Sauveur, Kooijmans, Linda, Lennartz, Sinikka, Maignan, Fabienne, Chevallier, Frédéric, Chipperfield, Martyn P., Pope, Richard J., Harrison, Jeremy J., Vimont, Isaac, Wilson, Christopher, and Peylin, Philippe
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ATMOSPHERIC transport ,ATMOSPHERIC models ,BUDGET ,TROPOSPHERIC chemistry ,SULFIDES ,RESEARCH aircraft ,SEASONS ,DEEP-sea moorings - Abstract
We present a comparison of atmospheric transport model (ATM) simulations for carbonyl sulfide (COS), within the framework of the atmospheric tracer transport model intercomparison project "TransCom‐COS." Seven ATMs participated in the experiment and provided simulations of COS mixing ratios over the years 2010–2018, using state‐of‐the‐art surface fluxes for various components of the COS budget: biospheric sink, oceanic source, sources from fire and industry. The main goal of TransCom‐COS is to investigate the impact of the transport uncertainty and emission distribution in simulating the spatio‐temporal variability of tropospheric COS mixing ratios. A control case with seasonal surface fluxes of COS was constructed. The results indicate that the COS mixing ratios are underestimated by at least 50 parts per trillion (ppt) in the tropics, pointing to a missing tropical source. In summer, the mixing ratios are overestimated by at least 50 ppt above 40°N, pointing to a likely missing sink in the high northern latitudes. Regarding the latitudinal profile, the model spread is greater than 60 ppt above 40°N in boreal summer. Regarding the seasonal amplitude, the model spread reaches 50 ppt at 6 out of 15 sites, compared to an observed seasonal amplitude of 100 ppt. All models simulated a too late minimum by at least 2–3 months at two high northern‐latitude sites, likely owing to errors in the seasonal cycle in the ocean emissions. This study highlighted the shortcomings in the COS global budget that need to be resolved before using COS as a photosynthesis tracer. Plain Language Summary: In this study, we evaluate the state‐of‐the‐art fluxes for various components of the carbonyl sulfide (COS) budget: biospheric sink, oceanic source, sources from fire and industry. A control case with seasonal surface fluxes of COS was constructed. Seven atmospheric transport models provided simulations of COS mixing ratios. Then, the simulated mixing ratios were evaluated against atmospheric measurements at several surface sites. Results show that all models fail to capture the observed latitudinal distribution and that the model spread is small compared to the model‐observation mismatch. In summer, the overestimated mixing ratios above 40°N point to a likely missing sink in the high northern latitudes. The underestimated mixing ratios in the tropics point to a missing tropical source. This study highlighted the shortcomings in the COS global budget that need to be resolved before using COS as a photosynthesis tracer. Key Points: The model‐observation mismatch suggests there is a missing source in the tropics and a missing sink in the high northern latitude in summerAt northern latitude sites, the model spread in seasonal amplitude reaches 50 ppt compared to a mean seasonal amplitude of about 100 pptThe diurnal rectifier effect is small, decreasing the seasonal amplitude by up to 20% at continental sites [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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8. Toward High‐Resolution Global Atmospheric Inverse Modeling Using Graphics Accelerators.
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Chevallier, Frédéric, Lloret, Zoé, Cozic, Anne, Takache, Sakina, and Remaud, Marine
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GREENHOUSE gases ,ATMOSPHERIC models ,GRAPHICS processing units ,ATMOSPHERIC transport ,SPATIAL resolution ,HIGH performance computing - Abstract
The ability of global transport models to go up in resolution becomes discriminating for greenhouse gas atmospheric inversions. This paper describes the porting on Graphics Processing Units of the global transport model currently used in the European operational Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) for CO2 and N2O inversions. It represents an important milestone to achieve sub‐degree resolution. The code includes not only the direct model but also its tangent‐linear and its adjoint versions which are needed in variational inversions. Tests were carried out for CO2 at a resolution of 2.50° in longitude, 1.27° in latitude and 79 layers in the vertical, corresponding to 1,626,768 3D cells, 4.5 times more than the current standard resolution of the model used in the CAMS reanalyzes. A month's worth of computation of the tangent‐linear and of the adjoint versions now takes 2.5 min, including 50 s for reading meteorological data. Plain Language Summary: Atmospheric transport models are intensively used to infer global greenhouse gas emissions and removals, from atmospheric measurements: a single global analysis involves repeated and long transport simulations. This intensive use has limited the spatial resolution of such analyses despite an increasing need for national greenhouse gas budgets, despite an increasing number of corresponding space‐based observations at kilometer resolution, and despite an increasing number of high‐quality surface measurements made in sites marked by strong local influences. For the global transport model currently used in the European operational atmosphere monitoring service, our objective within the next 5 years is to make it reach a resolution of about 50 km over the whole globe. This paper describes an important milestone in this direction with the porting of this transport model on hardware components initially developed for video display but now used for high performance computing. Tests were carried out at a resolution of 2.50° in longitude, 1.27° in latitude and 79 layers in the vertical, corresponding to 4.5 times more 3D cells than the current standard resolution of the model. The direct model itself now takes less time than reading the input meteorological data. Key Points: The workload in a Eulerian transport model on a longitude‐latitude grid can be embarrassingly parallel enough to run efficiently on a Graphics Processing UnitThe transport model of the Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique was run in a new grid of 1,626,768 3D cellsThe calculation time in the direct version of the model is now less than the time to read the input meteorological data [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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9. Multi‐Season Evaluation of CO₂ Weather in OCO-2 MIP Models
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Zhang, Li, Davis, Kenneth J., Schuh, Andrew E., Jacobson, Andrew R., Pal, Sandip, Cui, Yu Yan, Baker, David, Crowell, Sean, Chevallier, Frederic, Remaud, Marine, Liu, Junjie, Weir, Brad, Philip, Sajeev, Johnson, Matthew S., Deng, Feng, and Basu, Sourish
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The ability of current global models to simulate the transport of CO₂ by mid-latitude, synoptic-scale weather systems (i.e., CO₂ weather) is important for inverse estimates of regional and global carbon budgets but remains unclear without comparisons to targeted measurements. Here, we evaluate ten models that participated in the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 model intercomparison project (OCO-2 MIP version 9) with intensive aircraft measurements collected from the Atmospheric Carbon Transport (ACT)-America mission. We quantify model-data differences in the spatial variability of CO₂ mole fractions, mean winds, and boundary layer depths in 27 mid-latitude cyclones spanning four seasons over the central and eastern United States. We find that the OCO-2 MIP models are able to simulate observed CO₂ frontal differences with varying degrees of success in summer and spring, and most underestimate frontal differences in winter and autumn. The models may underestimate the observed boundary layer-to-free troposphere CO₂ differences in spring and autumn due to model errors in boundary layer height. Attribution of the causes of model biases in other seasons remains elusive. Transport errors, prior fluxes, and/or inversion algorithms appear to be the primary cause of these biases since model performance is not highly sensitive to the CO₂ data used in the inversion. The metrics presented here provide new benchmarks regarding the ability of atmospheric inversion systems to reproduce the CO₂ structure of mid-latitude weather systems. Controlled experiments are needed to link these metrics more directly to the accuracy of regional or global flux estimates.
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10. Multi‐Season Evaluation of CO 2 Weather in OCO‐2 MIP Models
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Zhang, Li, Davis, Kenneth, Schuh, Andrew, Jacobson, Andrew, Pal, Sandip, Cui, Yu Yan, Baker, David, Crowell, Sean, Chevallier, Frederic, Remaud, Marine, Liu, Junjie, Weir, Brad, Philip, Sajeev, Johnson, Matthew, Deng, Feng, Basu, Sourish, Cui, Yu, Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science [PennState], Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), Penn State System-Penn State System, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA), Colorado State University [Fort Collins] (CSU), NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement [Gif-sur-Yvette] (LSCE), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Modélisation INVerse pour les mesures atmosphériques et SATellitaires (SATINV), and Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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[SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean, Atmosphere ,Atmospheric Science ,Geophysics ,Space and Planetary Science ,Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) ,[SDU.ENVI]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces, environment - Abstract
International audience; The ability of current global models to simulate the transport of CO 2 by mid-latitude, synopticscale weather systems (i.e., CO 2 weather) is important for inverse estimates of regional and global carbon budgets but remains unclear without comparisons to targeted measurements. Here, we evaluate ten models that participated in the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 model intercomparison project (OCO-2 MIP version 9) with intensive aircraft measurements collected from the Atmospheric Carbon Transport (ACT)-America mission. We quantify model-data differences in the spatial variability of CO 2 mole fractions, mean winds, and boundary layer depths in 27 mid-latitude cyclones spanning four seasons over the central and eastern United States. We find that the OCO-2 MIP models are able to simulate observed CO 2 frontal differences with varying degrees of success in summer and spring, and most underestimate frontal differences in winter and autumn. The models may underestimate the observed boundary layer-to-free troposphere CO 2 differences in spring and autumn due to model errors in boundary layer height. Attribution of the causes of model biases in other seasons remains elusive. Transport errors, prior fluxes, and/or inversion algorithms appear to be the primary cause of these biases since model performance is not highly sensitive to the CO 2 data used in the inversion. The metrics presented here provide new benchmarks regarding the ability of atmospheric inversion systems to reproduce the CO 2 structure of mid-latitude weather systems. Controlled experiments are needed to link these metrics more directly to the accuracy of regional or global flux estimates. Plain Language Summary Global flux estimate systems use CO 2 observations, atmospheric transport models, CO 2 flux models (emissions and absorption), and mathematical optimization methods to estimate biosphere-atmosphere CO 2 exchange. Accurate representation of atmospheric transport is important for a reliable optimization of fluxes in these systems. We use intensive aircraft measurements of wind speed, boundary layer height, and horizontal and vertical differences of CO 2 concentrations within 27 mid-latitude cyclones collected by the Atmospheric Carbon Transport (ACT)-America mission to evaluate the performance of ten global flux estimate systems from the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 model intercomparison project (OCO-2 MIP). We find the models can simulate observed horizontal CO 2 differences between the warm and cold parts of cyclones with different degrees of success in summer and spring, but often underestimate the observed cross-frontal and vertical differences in CO 2 in winter and autumn. The models may underestimate the CO 2 differences between the boundary layer and the free troposphere due to model errors in boundary layer height and surface fluxes. These weather-oriented CO 2 metrics provide benchmarks for testing simulations of the CO 2 structure within cyclones. Future efforts are needed to link these metrics more directly to the accuracy of CO 2 flux estimates. ZHANG ET AL.
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11. Global modelling of soil carbonyl sulfide exchanges
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Abadie, Camille, Maignan, Fabienne, Remaud, Marine, Ogée, Jérôme, Campbell, J. Elliott, Whelan, Mary E., Kitz, Florian, Spielmann, Felix M., Wohlfahrt, Georg, Wehr, Richard, Sun, Wu, Raoult, Nina, Seibt, Ulli, Hauglustaine, Didier, Lennartz, Sinikka T., Belviso, Sauveur, Montagne, David, Peylin, Philippe, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement [Gif-sur-Yvette] (LSCE), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Modélisation des Surfaces et Interfaces Continentales (MOSAIC), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Interactions Sol Plante Atmosphère (UMR ISPA), Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Sciences Agronomiques de Bordeaux-Aquitaine (Bordeaux Sciences Agro)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Sierra Nevada Research Institute, University of California (UC), Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey [New Brunswick] (RU), Rutgers University System (Rutgers), Leopold Franzens Universität Innsbruck - University of Innsbruck, Center for Atmospheric and Environmental Chemistry [Billerica], Aerodyne Research Inc., Carnegie Institution for Science, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences [Los Angeles] (AOS), University of California [Los Angeles] (UCLA), University of California (UC)-University of California (UC), Modelling the Earth Response to Multiple Anthropogenic Interactions and Dynamics (MERMAID), University of Oldenburg, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), ICOS-RAMCES (ICOS-RAMCES), Ecologie fonctionnelle et écotoxicologie des agroécosystèmes (ECOSYS), AgroParisTech-Université Paris-Saclay-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Financial support. This research has been mainly supported by the 4C project of the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 framework programme (grant no. 821003) and to a small extent by VERIFY (grant no. 776810). Florian Kitz, Felix M. Spielmann, and Georg Wohlfahrt were supported by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) (contract nos. P26931, P27176, P31669, and I03859) and the University of Innsbruck., and The authors thank the reviewers for their insightful and useful comments which helped to improve this study. The authors are very grateful to everyone who participated in field data collection used in this study. We thank Vladislav Bastrikov for providing the ORCHIDAS code. We also acknowledge Nicolas Vuichard for providing the soil bulk density map used in ORCHIDEE simulations. Operation of the US-HA site is supported by the AmeriFlux Management Project with funding by the US Department of Energy’s Office of Science (contract no. DE-AC02- 05CH11231), and additionally it is a part of the Harvard Forest Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) site supported by the National Science Foundation (grant no. DEB-1832210). The field campaign at DK-SOR was supported by the Danish ICOS contribution (ICOS/DK) and by the Independent Research Fund Denmark (grant no. DFF-1323-00182).
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[SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean, Atmosphere ,Sulfure de carbonyle ,MathematicsofComputing_NUMERICALANALYSIS ,[SDU.ENVI]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces, environment ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,GeneralLiterature_MISCELLANEOUS ,Earth-Surface Processes - Abstract
Carbonyl sulfide (COS) is an atmospheric trace gas of interest for C cycle research because COS uptake by continental vegetation is strongly related to terrestrial gross primary productivity (GPP), the largest and most uncertain flux in atmospheric CO2 budgets. However, to use atmospheric COS as an additional tracer of GPP, an accurate quantification of COS exchange by soils is also needed. At present, the atmospheric COS budget is unbalanced globally, with total COS flux estimates from oxic and anoxic soils that vary between −409 and −89 GgS yr−1. This uncertainty hampers the use of atmospheric COS concentrations to constrain GPP estimates through atmospheric transport inversions. In this study we implemented a mechanistic soil COS model in the ORCHIDEE (Organising Carbon and Hydrology In Dynamic Ecosystems) land surface model to simulate COS fluxes in oxic and anoxic soils. Evaluation of the model against flux measurements at seven sites yields a mean root mean square deviation of 1.6 pmol m−2 s−1, instead of 2 pmol m−2 s−1 when using a previous empirical approach that links soil COS uptake to soil heterotrophic respiration. However, soil COS model evaluation is still limited by the scarcity of observation sites and long-term measurement periods, with all sites located in a latitudinal band between 39 and 62∘ N and no observations during wintertime in this study. The new model predicts that, globally and over the 2009–2016 period, oxic soils act as a net uptake of −126 GgS yr−1 and anoxic soils are a source of +96 GgS yr−1, leading to a global net soil sink of only −30 GgS yr−1, i.e. much smaller than previous estimates. The small magnitude of the soil fluxes suggests that the error in the COS budget is dominated by the much larger fluxes from plants, oceans, and industrial activities. The predicted spatial distribution of soil COS fluxes, with large emissions from oxic (up to 68.2 pmol COS m−2 s−1) and anoxic (up to 36.8 pmol COS m−2 s−1) soils in the tropics, especially in India and in the Sahel region, marginally improves the latitudinal gradient of atmospheric COS concentrations, after transport by the LMDZ (Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique) atmospheric transport model. The impact of different soil COS flux representations on the latitudinal gradient of the atmospheric COS concentrations is strongest in the Northern Hemisphere. We also implemented spatiotemporal variations in near-ground atmospheric COS concentrations in the modelling of biospheric COS fluxes, which helped reduce the imbalance of the atmospheric COS budget by lowering soil COS uptake by 10 % and plant COS uptake by 8 % globally (with a revised mean vegetation budget of −576 GgS yr−1 over 2009–2016). Sensitivity analyses highlighted the different parameters to which each soil COS flux model is the most responsive, selected in a parameter optimization framework. Having both vegetation and soil COS fluxes modelled within ORCHIDEE opens the way for using observed ecosystem COS fluxes and larger-scale atmospheric COS mixing ratios to improve the simulated GPP, through data assimilation techniques.
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12. Carbonyl sulfide: comparing a mechanistic representation of the vegetation uptake in a land surface model and the leaf relative uptake approach
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Maignan, Fabienne, Abadie, Camille, Remaud, Marine, Kooiijmans, Linda M. J., Kohonen, Kukka-Maaria, Commane, Róisín, Wehr, Richard, Campbell, J. Elliott, Belviso, Sauveur, Montzka, Stephen A., Raoult, Nina, Seibt, Ulli, Shiga, Yoichi P., Vuichard, Nicolas, Whelan, Mary E., Peylin, Philippe, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement [Gif-sur-Yvette] (LSCE), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ), Modélisation des Surfaces et Interfaces Continentales (MOSAIC), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ), Wageningen University and Research [Wageningen] (WUR), Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research (INAR), University of Helsinki, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO), Columbia University [New York], Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology [University of Arizona], University of Arizona, ICOS-RAMCES (ICOS-RAMCES), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Helsingin yliopisto = Helsingfors universitet = University of Helsinki, Department of Physics, and Micrometeorology and biogeochemical cycles
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1171 Geosciences ,Meteorologie en Luchtkwaliteit ,Meteorology and Air Quality ,MESOPHYLL CONDUCTANCE ,STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE ,MathematicsofComputing_NUMERICALANALYSIS ,Luchtkwaliteit ,WATER TRANSPORT ,ATMOSPHERIC TRACERS ,Air Quality ,Life ,QH501-531 ,Life Science ,EULERIAN BACKTRACKING ,[SDU.ENVI]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces, environment ,1172 Environmental sciences ,QH540-549.5 ,[SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean, Atmosphere ,QE1-996.5 ,Ecology ,BIOCHEMICAL-MODEL ,Geology ,15. Life on land ,1181 Ecology, evolutionary biology ,GENERAL-CIRCULATION ,CO2 ,[SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology ,DIOXIDE ,GAS-EXCHANGE - Abstract
Land surface modellers need measurable proxies to constrain the quantity of carbon dioxide (CO2) assimilated by continental plants through photosynthesis, known as gross primary production (GPP). Carbonyl sulfide (COS), which is taken up by leaves through their stomates and then hydrolysed by photosynthetic enzymes, is a candidate GPP proxy. A former study with the ORCHIDEE land surface model used a fixed ratio of COS uptake to CO2 uptake normalised to respective ambient concentrations for each vegetation type (leaf relative uptake, LRU) to compute vegetation COS fluxes from GPP. The LRU approach is known to have limited accuracy since the LRU ratio changes with variables such as photosynthetically active radiation (PAR): while CO2 uptake slows under low light, COS uptake is not light limited. However, the LRU approach has been popular for COS–GPP proxy studies because of its ease of application and apparent low contribution to uncertainty for regional-scale applications. In this study we refined the COS–GPP relationship and implemented in ORCHIDEE a mechanistic model that describes COS uptake by continental vegetation. We compared the simulated COS fluxes against measured hourly COS fluxes at two sites and studied the model behaviour and links with environmental drivers. We performed simulations at a global scale, and we estimated the global COS uptake by vegetation to be −756 Gg S yr−1, in the middle range of former studies (−490 to −1335 Gg S yr−1). Based on monthly mean fluxes simulated by the mechanistic approach in ORCHIDEE, we derived new LRU values for the different vegetation types, ranging between 0.92 and 1.72, close to recently published averages for observed values of 1.21 for C4 and 1.68 for C3 plants. We transported the COS using the monthly vegetation COS fluxes derived from both the mechanistic and the LRU approaches, and we evaluated the simulated COS concentrations at NOAA sites. Although the mechanistic approach was more appropriate when comparing to high-temporal-resolution COS flux measurements, both approaches gave similar results when transporting with monthly COS fluxes and evaluating COS concentrations at stations. In our study, uncertainties between these two approaches are of secondary importance compared to the uncertainties in the COS global budget, which are currently a limiting factor to the potential of COS concentrations to constrain GPP simulated by land surface models on the global scale.
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13. Ongoing Decline in the Atmospheric COS Seasonal Cycle Amplitude over Western Europe: Implications for Surface Fluxes.
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Belviso, Sauveur, Remaud, Marine, Abadie, Camille, Maignan, Fabienne, Ramonet, Michel, and Peylin, Philippe
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Atmospheric carbonyl sulfide (COS) was monitored at the GIF site (France) from August 2014 to November 2021. A significant decreasing trend in the seasonal cycle amplitude (SCA) of the COS was observed for the first time in the Northern Hemisphere (−27 ppt over 6 years). The lowest SCA was recorded in 2021 (80 ppt vs. 107 ppt in 2015). The trend in the SCA results revealed a steeper decline in the spring maximum than in that of the autumn minimum (−49 ppt vs. −10 ppt over 6 years, respectively). These negative trends were qualitatively consistent with those in the tropospheric COS put forward by the NDACC network of ground-based FTIR instruments, which were attributed to a slowing in the rate of COS anthropogenic emissions. Simulations using the ORCHIDEE land-surface model showed that a decrease in COS lowers the uptake of this gas by plants. Our observations suggest the existence of a causal relationship between the decline in the SCA and that in the tropospheric COS, implying that the temporal variations in the COS SCA over Western Europe are essentially driven by plant uptake. However, the transport by the LMDz 3-D model of surface fluxes for each component of the COS budget failed to reproduce this feature at GIF, pointing to a likely misrepresentation of the marine and anthropogenic fluxes in the footprint of this station. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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14. An event-by-event assessment of tropical intraseasonal perturbations for general circulation models
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Duvel, Jean Philippe, Bellenger, Hugo, Bellon, Gilles, and Remaud, Marine
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15. Plant gross primary production, plant respiration and carbonyl sulfide emissions over the globe inferred by atmospheric inverse modelling.
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Remaud, Marine, Chevallier, Frédéric, Maignan, Fabienne, Belviso, Sauveur, Berchet, Antoine, Parouffe, Alexandra, Abadie, Camille, Bacour, Cédric, Lennartz, Sinikka, and Peylin, Philippe
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RESPIRATION in plants ,ATMOSPHERIC models ,TRACE gases ,ATMOSPHERIC transport ,RESPIRATION ,CARBON dioxide ,CHROMOSOME inversions - Abstract
Carbonyl sulfide (COS), a trace gas showing striking similarity to CO 2 in terms of biochemical diffusion pathway into leaves, has been recognized as a promising indicator of the plant gross primary production (GPP), the amount of carbon dioxide that is absorbed through photosynthesis by terrestrial ecosystems. However, large uncertainties about the other components of its atmospheric budget prevent us from directly relating the atmospheric COS measurements to GPP. The largest uncertainty comes from the closure of its atmospheric budget, with a source component missing. Here, we explore the benefit of assimilating both COS and CO 2 measurements into the LMDz atmospheric transport model to obtain consistent information on GPP, plant respiration and COS budget. To this end, we develop an analytical inverse system that optimizes biospheric fluxes for the 15 plant functional types (PFTs) defined in the ORCHIDEE global land surface model. Plant uptake of COS is parameterized as a linear function of GPP and of the leaf relative uptake (LRU), which is the ratio of COS to CO 2 deposition velocities in plants. A possible scenario for the period 2008–2019 leads to a global biospheric sink of 800 GgS yr -1 , with higher absorption in the high latitudes and higher oceanic emissions between 400 and 600 GgS yr -1 most of which is located in the tropics. As for the CO 2 budget, the inverse system increases GPP in the high latitudes by a few GtC yr -1 without modifying the respiration compared to the ORCHIDEE fluxes used as a prior. In contrast, in the tropics the system tends to weaken both respiration and GPP. The optimized components of the COS and CO 2 budgets have been evaluated against independent measurements over North America, the Pacific Ocean, at three sites in Japan and at one site in France. Overall, the posterior COS concentrations are in better agreement with the COS retrievals at 250 hPa from the MIPAS satellite and with airborne measurements made over North America and the Pacific Ocean. The system seems to have rightly corrected the underestimated GPP over the high latitudes. However, the change in seasonality of GPP in the tropics disagrees with solar-induced fluorescence (SIF) data. The decline in biospheric sink in the Amazon driven by the inversion also disagrees with MIPAS COS retrievals at 250 hPa, highlighting the lack of observational constraints in this region. Moreover, the comparison with the surface measurements in Japan and France suggests misplaced sources in the prior anthropogenic inventory, emphasizing the need for an improved inventory to better partition oceanic and continental sources in Asia and Europe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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16. Multi‐Season Evaluation of CO2 Weather in OCO‐2 MIP Models.
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Zhang, Li, Davis, Kenneth J., Schuh, Andrew E., Jacobson, Andrew R., Pal, Sandip, Cui, Yu Yan, Baker, David, Crowell, Sean, Chevallier, Frederic, Remaud, Marine, Liu, Junjie, Weir, Brad, Philip, Sajeev, Johnson, Matthew S., Deng, Feng, and Basu, Sourish
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ATMOSPHERIC carbon dioxide ,CARBON dioxide ,WEATHER ,ATMOSPHERIC chemistry ,CARBON offsetting - Abstract
The ability of current global models to simulate the transport of CO2 by mid‐latitude, synoptic‐scale weather systems (i.e., CO2 weather) is important for inverse estimates of regional and global carbon budgets but remains unclear without comparisons to targeted measurements. Here, we evaluate ten models that participated in the Orbiting Carbon Observatory‐2 model intercomparison project (OCO‐2 MIP version 9) with intensive aircraft measurements collected from the Atmospheric Carbon Transport (ACT)‐America mission. We quantify model‐data differences in the spatial variability of CO2 mole fractions, mean winds, and boundary layer depths in 27 mid‐latitude cyclones spanning four seasons over the central and eastern United States. We find that the OCO‐2 MIP models are able to simulate observed CO2 frontal differences with varying degrees of success in summer and spring, and most underestimate frontal differences in winter and autumn. The models may underestimate the observed boundary layer‐to‐free troposphere CO2 differences in spring and autumn due to model errors in boundary layer height. Attribution of the causes of model biases in other seasons remains elusive. Transport errors, prior fluxes, and/or inversion algorithms appear to be the primary cause of these biases since model performance is not highly sensitive to the CO2 data used in the inversion. The metrics presented here provide new benchmarks regarding the ability of atmospheric inversion systems to reproduce the CO2 structure of mid‐latitude weather systems. Controlled experiments are needed to link these metrics more directly to the accuracy of regional or global flux estimates. Plain Language Summary: Global flux estimate systems use CO2 observations, atmospheric transport models, CO2 flux models (emissions and absorption), and mathematical optimization methods to estimate biosphere‐atmosphere CO2 exchange. Accurate representation of atmospheric transport is important for a reliable optimization of fluxes in these systems. We use intensive aircraft measurements of wind speed, boundary layer height, and horizontal and vertical differences of CO2 concentrations within 27 mid‐latitude cyclones collected by the Atmospheric Carbon Transport (ACT)‐America mission to evaluate the performance of ten global flux estimate systems from the Orbiting Carbon Observatory‐2 model intercomparison project (OCO‐2 MIP). We find the models can simulate observed horizontal CO2 differences between the warm and cold parts of cyclones with different degrees of success in summer and spring, but often underestimate the observed cross‐frontal and vertical differences in CO2 in winter and autumn. The models may underestimate the CO2 differences between the boundary layer and the free troposphere due to model errors in boundary layer height and surface fluxes. These weather‐oriented CO2 metrics provide benchmarks for testing simulations of the CO2 structure within cyclones. Future efforts are needed to link these metrics more directly to the accuracy of CO2 flux estimates. Key Points: Global inversion systems are able to simulate observed CO2 frontal differences but with varying degrees of successMost global inversion systems underestimate dormant‐season frontal and vertical CO2 differencesInversion systems appear to explain more of the model‐data differences in CO2 weather metrics than CO2 data sources [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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17. Global modelling of soil carbonyl sulfide exchanges.
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Abadie, Camille, Maignan, Fabienne, Remaud, Marine, Ogée, Jérôme, Campbell, J. Elliott, Whelan, Mary E., Kitz, Florian, Spielmann, Felix M., Wohlfahrt, Georg, Wehr, Richard, Sun, Wu, Raoult, Nina, Seibt, Ulli, Hauglustaine, Didier, Lennartz, Sinikka T., Belviso, Sauveur, Montagne, David, and Peylin, Philippe
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SOILS ,ATMOSPHERIC carbon dioxide ,GRASSLAND soils ,FOREST succession ,TUNDRAS ,SOIL permeability ,ATMOSPHERIC boundary layer ,QUANTUM cascade lasers - Abstract
Carbonyl sulfide (COS) is an atmospheric trace gas of interest for C cycle research because COS uptake by continental vegetation is strongly related to terrestrial gross primary productivity (GPP), the largest and most uncertain flux in atmospheric CO
2 budgets. However, to use atmospheric COS budgets as an additional tracer of GPP, an accurate quantification of COS exchange by soils is also needed. At present, the atmospheric COS budget is unbalanced globally, with total COS flux estimates from oxic and anoxic soils that vary between -409 and -104 GgS yr-1 . This uncertainty hampers the use of atmospheric COS concentrations to constrain GPP estimates through atmospheric transport inversions. In this study we implemented a mechanistic soil COS model in the ORCHIDEE land surface model to simulate COS fluxes in oxic and anoxic soils. Evaluation of the model against flux measurements at 7 sites yields a mean root mean square deviation of 1.6 pmol m-2 s-1 , instead of 2 pmol m-2 s-1 when using a previous empirical approach that links soil COS uptake to soil heterotrophic respiration. The new model predicts that, globally and over the 2009-2016 period, oxic soils act as a net uptake of -126 GgS yr-1 , and anoxic soils are a source of +96 GgS yr-1 , leading to a global net soil sink of only -30 GgS yr-1 , i.e., much smaller than previous estimates. The small magnitude of the soil fluxes suggests that the error in the COS budget is dominated by the much larger fluxes from plants, oceans, and industrial activities. The predicted spatial distribution of soil COS fluxes, with large emissions in the tropics from oxic (up to 68.2 pmol COS m-2 s-1 ) and anoxic (up to 36.8 pmol COS m-2 s-1 ) soils, marginally improves the latitudinal gradient of atmospheric COS concentrations, after transport by the LMDZ atmospheric transport model. The impact of different soil COS flux representations on the latitudinal gradient of the atmospheric COS concentrations is strongest in the northern hemisphere. We also implemented spatio-temporal variations of near-ground atmospheric COS concentrations in the modelling of biospheric COS fluxes, which helped reduce the imbalance of the atmospheric COS budget by lowering COS uptake by soils and vegetation globally (-10% for soil, and -8% for vegetation with a revised mean estimate of -576 GgS yr-1 over 2009-2016). Sensitivity analyses highlighted the different parameters to which each soil COS flux model is the most responsive, selected in a parameter optimization framework. Having both vegetation and soil COS fluxes modelled within ORCHIDEE opens the way for using observed ecosystem COS fluxes and larger scale atmospheric COS mixing ratios to improve the simulated GPP, through data assimilation techniques. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
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18. Plant gross primary production, plant respiration and carbonyl sulfide emissions over the globe inferred by atmospheric inverse modelling.
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Remaud, Marine, Chevallier, Frédéric, Maignan, Fabienne, Belviso, Sauveur, Berchet, Antoine, Parouffe, Alexandra, Abadie, Camille, Bacour, Cédric, Lennartz, Sinikka, and Peylin, Philippe
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Carbonyl Sulphide (COS), a trace gas showing striking similarity to CO
2 in terms of biochemical diffusion pathway into leaves, has been recognized as a promising indicator of the plant gross primary production (GPP), the amount of carbon dioxide that is absorbed through photosynthesis by terrestrial ecosystems. However, large uncertainties about the other components of its atmospheric budget prevent us from directly relating the atmospheric COS measurements to GPP. The largest uncertainty comes from the closure of its atmospheric budget, with a source component missing. Here, we explore the benefit of assimilating both COS and CO2 measurements into the LMDz atmospheric transport model to obtain consistent information on GPP, plant respiration and COS budget. To this end, we develop an analytical inverse system that optimizes biospheric fluxes for the 15 plant functional types (PFTs) defined in the ORCHIDEE global land surface model. Plant uptake of COS is parameterized as a linear function of GPP of the leaf relative uptake (LRU), which is the ratio of COS to CO2 deposition velocities in plants. A possible scenario for the period 2008-2019 leads to a global biospheric sink of 800 GgS.yr-1 , with higher absorption in the high latitudes and higher oceanic emissions between 400 and 600 GgS.yr-1 most of which is located in the tropics. As for the CO2 budget, the inverse system increases GPP in the high latitudes by a few GtC.yr-1 without modifying the respiration compared to the ORCHIDEE fluxes used as a prior. In contrast, in the tropics the system tends to weaken both respiration and GPP. The optimized components of the COS and CO2 have been evaluated against independent measurements over Northern America, the Pacific Ocean, at three sites in Japan and at one site in France. Overall, the posterior COS concentrations are in better agreement with the COS retrievals at 250 hPa from the MIPAS satellite and with airborne measurements made over North America and the Pacific Ocean. The system seems to have rightly corrected the underestimated GPP over the high latitudes. However, the change in seasonality of GPP in the tropics disagrees with Solar Induced Fluorescence (SIF) data. The decline in biospheric sink in the Amazon driven by the inversion also disagrees with MIPAS COS retrievals at 250 hPa, highlighting the lack of observational constraints in this region. Moreover, the comparison with the surface measurements in Japan and France suggests misplaced sources in the prior anthropogenic inventory, emphasizing the need for an improved inventory to better partition oceanic and continental sources in Asia and Europe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
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19. On the impact of recent developments of the LMDz atmospheric general circulation model on the simulation of CO2 transport
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Remaud, Marine, Chevallier, Frederic, Cozic, Anne, Lin, Xin, Bousquet, Philippe, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement [Gif-sur-Yvette] (LSCE), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ), Modélisation INVerse pour les mesures atmosphériques et SATellitaires (SATINV), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ), Calcul Scientifique (CALCULS), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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The quality of the representation of greenhouse gas (GHG) transport in atmospheric general circulation models (GCMs) drives the potential of inverse systems to retrieve GHG surface fluxes to a large extent. In this work, the transport of CO2 is evaluated in the latest version of the Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (LMDz) GCM, developed for the Climate Model Intercomparison Project 6 (CMIP6) relative to the LMDz version developed for CMIP5. Several key changes have been implemented between the two versions, which include a more elaborate radiative scheme, new subgrid-scale parameterizations of convective and boundary layer processes and a refined vertical resolution. We performed a set of simulations of LMDz with different physical parameterizations, two different horizontal resolutions and different land surface schemes, in order to test the impact of those different configurations on the overall transport simulation. By modulating the intensity of vertical mixing, the physical parameterizations control the interhemispheric gradient and the amplitude of the seasonal cycle in the Northern Hemisphere, as emphasized by the comparison with observations at surface sites. However, the effect of the new parameterizations depends on the region considered, with a strong impact over South America (Brazil, Amazonian forest) but a smaller impact over Europe, East Asia and North America. A finer horizontal resolution reduces the representation errors at observation sites near emission hotspots or along the coastlines. In comparison, the sensitivities to the land surface model and to the increased vertical resolution are marginal.
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20. Carbonyl Sulfide: Comparing a Mechanistic Representation of the Vegetation Uptake in a Land Surface Model and the Leaf Relative Uptake Approach.
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Maignan, Fabienne, Abadie, Camille, Remaud, Marine, Kooijmans, Linda M. J., Kohonen, Kukka-Maaria, Commane, Róisín, Wehr, Richard, Campbell, J. Elliott, Belviso, Sauveur, Montzka, Stephen A., Raoult, Nina, Seibt, Ulli, Shiga, Yoichi P., Vuichard, Nicolas, Whelan, Mary E., and Peylin, Philippe
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AIR sampling ,ATMOSPHERIC transport ,SULFIDES ,ATMOSPHERIC models ,CARBON dioxide - Abstract
Land surface modelers need measurable proxies to constrain the quantity of carbon dioxide (CO
2 ) assimilated by continental plants through photosynthesis, known as Gross Primary Production (GPP). Carbonyl sulfide (COS), which is taken up by leaves through their stomates and then hydrolysed by photosynthetic enzymes, is a candidate GPP proxy. A former study with the ORCHIDEE land surface model used a fixed ratio of COS uptake to CO2 uptake normalized to respective ambient concentrations for each vegetation type (Leaf Relative Uptake, LRU). COS leaf fluxes were then computed from GPP, and the resulting concentrations were transported with an atmospheric model which included all other known COS fluxes as inputs. Modelled COS concentrations could then be compared to COS measurements from the NOAA air sampling tower network. The LRU approach is known to have limited accuracy since the LRU ratio changes with variables such as Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR): while CO2 uptake slows under low light, COS uptake is not light limited. However, the LRU approach has been popular for COS-GPP proxy studies because of its ease of application and apparent low contribution to uncertainty for regional scale applications. In this study we refined the COS-GPP relationship and implemented in ORCHIDEE a mechanistic model that describes COS uptake by continental vegetation. We compared the simulated COS fluxes against measured hourly COS fluxes at two sites, and studied the model behaviour and links with environmental drivers. We performed simulations at global scale, and estimated the global COS uptake by vegetation to be -756 Gg S yr-1 , in the middle range of former studies (-490 to -1335 Gg S yr-1 ). Based on the mechanistic approach in ORCHIDEE, we derived new LRU values for the different vegetation types, ranging between 0.92 and 1.72, close to recently published averages for observed values of 1.21 for C4 and 1.68 for C3 plants. We transported the COS using the monthly vegetation COS fluxes derived from both the mechanistic and the LRU approaches, and evaluated the simulated COS concentrations at NOAA sites. Although the mechanistic approach was more appropriate when comparing to high-temporal-resolution COS flux measurements, both approaches gave similar results when transporting with monthly COS fluxes and evaluating COS concentrations at stations. In our study, uncertainties between these two approaches are of second importance as compared to the uncertainties in the COS global budget, which are currently a limiting factor to the potential of COS concentrations to constrain GPP simulated by land surface models on the global scale. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
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21. Objective evaluation of surface- and satellite-driven carbon dioxide atmospheric inversions.
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Chevallier, Frédéric, Remaud, Marine, O'Dell, Christopher W., Baker, David, Peylin, Philippe, and Cozic, Anne
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ATMOSPHERIC carbon dioxide ,INVERSION (Geophysics) ,OCEAN temperature ,TROPOSPHERIC ozone ,AIR sampling ,TIME series analysis ,CARBON dioxide ,GREENHOUSE gases - Abstract
We study an ensemble of six multi-year global Bayesian carbon dioxide (CO2) atmospheric inversions that vary in terms of assimilated observations (either column retrievals from one of two satellites or surface air sample measurements) and transport model. The time series of inferred annual fluxes are first compared with each other at various spatial scales. We then objectively evaluate the small inversion ensemble based on a large dataset of accurate aircraft measurements in the free troposphere over the globe, which are independent of all assimilated data. The measured variables are connected with the inferred fluxes through mass-conserving transport in the global atmosphere and are part of the inversion results. Large-scale annual fluxes estimated from the bias-corrected land retrievals of the second Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO-2) differ greatly from the prior fluxes, but are similar to the fluxes estimated from the surface network within the uncertainty of these surface-based estimates. The OCO-2-based and surface-based inversions have similar performance when projected in the space of the aircraft data, but the relative strengths and weaknesses of the two flux estimates vary within the northern and tropical parts of the continents. The verification data also suggest that the more complex and more recent transport model does not improve the inversion skill. In contrast, the inversion using bias-corrected retrievals from the Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite (GOSAT) or, to a larger extent, a non-Bayesian inversion that simply adjusts a recent bottom-up flux estimate with the annual growth rate diagnosed from marine surface measurements both estimate much different fluxes and fit the aircraft data less. Our study highlights a way to rate global atmospheric inversions. Without any general claim regarding the usefulness of all OCO-2 retrieval datasets vs. all GOSAT retrieval datasets, it still suggests that some satellite retrievals can now provide inversion results that are, despite their uncertainty, comparable with respect to credibility to traditional inversions using the accurate but sparse surface network and that are therefore complementary for studies of the global carbon budget. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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22. Erratum to: An event-by-event assessment of tropical intraseasonal perturbations for general circulation models
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Duvel, Jean Philippe, Bellenger, Hugo, Bellon, Gilles, and Remaud, Marine
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- 2013
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23. Objective evaluation of surface- and satellite-driven CO2 atmospheric inversions.
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Chevallier, Frédéric, Remaud, Marine, O'Dell, Christopher W., Baker, David, Peylin, Philippe, and Cozic, Anne
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We study an ensemble of six multi-year global Bayesian CO
2 atmospheric inversions that vary in terms of assimilated observations (either column retrievals from one of two satellites or surface air sample measurements) and transport model. The time series of inferred annual fluxes are first compared with each other at various spatial scales. We then objectively evaluate the small inversion ensemble based on a large dataset of accurate aircraft measurements in the free troposphere over the globe, that are independent from all assimilated data. The measured variables are connected with the inferred fluxes through mass-conserving transport in the global atmosphere and are part of the inversion results. Large-scale annual fluxes estimated from the bias-corrected land retrievals of the second Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO-2) differ from the prior fluxes much, but are similar to the fluxes estimated from the surface network within the uncertainty of these surface-based estimates. The OCO-2- and surface-based inversions have similar performance when projected in the space of the aircraft data, but relative strengths and weaknesses of the two flux estimates vary within the Northern and Tropical parts of the continents. The verification data also suggests that the more complex and more recent transport model does not improve the inversion skill. In contrast, the inversion using bias-corrected retrievals from the Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite (GOSAT) or, to a larger extent, a non-Bayesian inversion that simply adjusts a recent bottom-up flux estimate with the annual growth rate diagnosed from marine surface measurements, estimate much different fluxes and fit the aircraft data less. Our study highlights a way to rate global atmospheric inversions. It suggests that some satellite retrievals can now provide inversion results that are, despite their uncertainty, comparable in credibility to traditional inversions using the accurate but sparse surface network and that are therefore complementary for studies of the global carbon budget. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2019
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24. On the impact of recent developments of an atmospheric general circulation model on the simulation of CO2 transport.
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Remaud, Marine, Chevallier, Frédéric, Cozic, Anne, Xin Lin, and Bousquet, Philippe
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GENERAL circulation model , *GREENHOUSE gases , *ATMOSPHERIC models - Abstract
The quality of the representation of greenhouse gas (GHG) transport in atmospheric General Circulation Models (GCMs) drives the potential of inverse systems to retrieve GHG surface fluxes to a large extent. In this work, the transport of CO2 is evaluated in the latest version of the LMDz GCM, developed for the Climate Model Intercomparison Project 6 (CMIP6) relative to the LMDz version developed for CMIP4. Several key changes have been implemented between the two versions; those include a more elaborate radiative scheme, new sub-grid scale parameterizations of convective and boundary layer processes, and a refined vertical resolution. We performed a set of simulations of LMDz with the different physical parameterizations, two different horizontal resolutions and different land surface schemes, in order to test the impact of those different configurations on the overall transport simulation. By modulating the intensity of vertical mixing, the physical parameterizations control the interhemispheric gradient and the amplitude of the seasonal cycle in the summer northern hemisphere, as emphasized by the comparison with observations at surface sites. However, the effect of the new parameterizations depends on the region considered, with a strong impact over South America (Brazil, Amazonian forest) but a smaller impact over Europe, Eastern Asia and North America. A finer horizontal resolution reduces the representation errors at observation sites near emission-hot spots or along the coastlines. In comparison, the sensitivities to the land surface model and to the increased vertical resolution are marginal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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25. Seasonal variability of degrees of freedom and its effect over time series and spatial patterns of atmospheric gases from satellite: application to carbonyl sulfide (OCS).
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Serio, Carmine, Masiello, Guido, Mastro, Pietro, Belviso, Sauveur, and Remaud, Marine
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- 2021
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26. Carbonyl sulfide (COS) emissions in two agroecosystems in central France.
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Belviso S, Abadie C, Montagne D, Hadjar D, Tropée D, Vialettes L, Kazan V, Delmotte M, Maignan F, Remaud M, Ramonet M, Lopez M, Yver-Kwok C, and Ciais P
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- France, Paris, Environmental Pollution
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Carbonyl sulfide (COS) fluxes simulated by vegetation and soil component models, both implemented in the ORCHIDEE land surface model, were evaluated against field observations at two agroecosystems in central France. The dynamics of a biogenic process not yet accounted for by this model, i.e., COS emissions from croplands, was examined in the context of three independent and complementary approaches. First, during the growing seasons of 2019 and 2020, monthly variations in the nighttime ratio of vertical mole fraction gradients of COS and carbon dioxide measured between 5 and 180 m height (GradCOS/GradCO2), a proxy of the ratio of their respective nocturnal net fluxes, were monitored at a rural tall tower site near Orléans (i.e., a "profile vs. model" approach). Second, field observations of COS nocturnal fluxes, obtained by the Radon Tracer Method (RTM) at a sub-urban site near Paris, were used for that same purpose (i.e., a "RTM vs. model" approach of unaccounted biogenic emissions). This site has observations going back to 2014. Third, during the growing seasons of 2019, 2020 and 2021, horizontal mole fraction gradients of COS were calculated from downwind-upwind surveys of wheat and rapeseed crops as a proxy of their respective exchange rates at the plot scale (i.e., a "crop based" comparative approach). The "profile vs. model" approach suggests that the nocturnal net COS uptake gradually weakens during the peak growing season and recovers from August on. The "RTM vs. model" approach suggests that there exists a biogenic source of COS, the intensity of which culminates in late June early July. Our "crop based" comparative approach demonstrates that rapeseed crops shift from COS uptake to emission in early summer during the late stages of growth (ripening and senescence) while wheat crops uptake capacities lower markedly. Hence, rapeseed appears to be a much larger source of COS than wheat at the plot scale. Nevertheless, compared to current estimates of the largest COS sources (i.e., marine and anthropogenic emissions), agricultural emissions during the late stages of growth are of secondary importance., Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exis., (Copyright: © 2022 Belviso et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.)
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