Sunday, October 3, 2010

Articles about Diurnal CO2 Cycles and Isotopic compositions

This site shows a study done in Kuwait, where they measured CO2 concentrations in Kuwait City.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=MImg&_imagekey=B6VB5-464XYB5-3-F&_cdi=5917&_user=458507&_pii=S026974910200221X&_origin=search&_coverDate=02%2F28%2F2003&_sk=998789997&view=c&wchp=dGLbVzb-zSkzk&md5=020f818021c600d36db45e7e087a4b3e&ie=/sdarticle.pdf

It shows a graph of the monthly CO2 concentrations during the year and a daily graph as well. They also gave graphs of the wind component as well.

This is another article, which contrasts city CO2 concentrations with residential and have useful graphs to show the contrast. Shows the Urban site and residential site following the same concentration pattern, just with the Urban concentrations bing slightly higher.


ams.confex.com/ams/pdfpapers/172339.pdf

And another article from pataki et al., which is from 2003. Still studying Salt Lake City, and shows the different isotopic compositions and how they were used. Pretty similar to the ones we read in class, though might be helpful as another reference.



We are definitely going to see an increase in CO2 emissions by vegetation during our measurements due to loss of leaf cover and photosynthesis and also from the decay of vegetation and that during the day, the vegetation is a CO2 sink while at night, it's a source, though I don't think the vegetation will be a big factor considering where we are taking our measurements from. Hopefully I didn't bore you too much on things you already knew.
Adam

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