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Preliminary Comparison of the Static Floating Chamber and the Diffusion Model Methods for Measuring Water-Atmosphere Exchanges of Methane and Nitrous Oxide from Inland Water Bodies
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    The static floating chamber technique and the diffusion model approach are the two methods most commonly used for quantifying methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) fluxes from water bodies. However, the comparability of these two methods for measuring gas fluxes remains unclear. In this study, the water-atmosphere exchange fluxes of CH4 and N2O were simultaneously determined using both methods under variable conditions to investigate their comparability. The results showed that most of the CH4 fluxes determined by either method negatively and linearly correlation with the dissolved oxygen content in the water (significance coefficient P<0.001). Meanwhile, the N2O flux results from either method could be expressed as a compound function of water temperature, ammonia, nitrate, dissolved carbon, and oxygen following Arrhenius kinetics, by which 86%-90% of the variances in the N2O fluxes can be jointly explained by these five factors (P<0.0001). The fitting functions provided an apparent activation energy and a temperature sensitivity coefficient (Q10) of 47-59 kJ mol-1 and 1.92-2.27, respectively. The CH4 and N2O fluxes measured using the diffusion model method went from 13% to 1.75 times and from 15% to 2.4 times the results from the chamber method, respectively. The magnitudes of the differences varied between the adopted methods. The differences in the gas fluxes between the two methods ranged from 20% to a 12-fold increase, with a mean of a 2.3-fold increase. Our results suggest that applying a single method exclusively to estimate the CH4or N2O fluxes may inevitably yield huge errors, although the flux results from both methods can consistently reflect the processes of gas production kinetics. Our results also suggest that further studies are still needed to verify and quantify the systematic errors which are likely being caused by either the chamber technique or the diffusion model approach.

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高洁,郑循华,王睿,廖婷婷,邹建文.2014.漂浮通量箱法和扩散模型法测定内陆水体CH4和N2O排放通量的初步比较研究[J].气候与环境研究,19(3):290-302. GAO Jie, ZHENG Xunhua, WANG Rui, LIAO Tingting, ZOU Jianwen.2014. Preliminary Comparison of the Static Floating Chamber and the Diffusion Model Methods for Measuring Water-Atmosphere Exchanges of Methane and Nitrous Oxide from Inland Water Bodies[J]. Climatic and Environmental Research (in Chinese],19(3):290-302.

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  • Received:October 20,2012
  • Revised:December 25,2012
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  • Online: June 13,2014
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