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    Temporal variations of atmospheric CO2 concentration in a temperate deciduous forest in central Japan

    Authors:

    Shohei Murayama ,

    National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, AIST Tsukuba West, 16-1 Onogawa, Tsukuba 305-8569, JP
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    Nobuko Saigusa,

    National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, AIST Tsukuba West, 16-1 Onogawa, Tsukuba 305-8569, JP
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    Douglas Chan,

    Meteorological Service of Canada, 4905 Dufferin Street, Toronto, Ontario M3H 5T4, CA
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    Susumu Yamamoto,

    National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, AIST Tsukuba West, 16-1 Onogawa, Tsukuba 305-8569, JP
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    Hiroaki Kondo,

    National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, AIST Tsukuba West, 16-1 Onogawa, Tsukuba 305-8569, JP
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    Yozo Eguchi

    National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, AIST Tsukuba West, 16-1 Onogawa, Tsukuba 305-8569, JP
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    Abstract

    In order to examine the temporal variation of the atmospheric CO2 concentration in a temperate deciduous forest, and its relationship with meteorological conditions, continuous measurements of CO2 and meteorological parameters have been made since 1993 on a tower at Takayama in the central part of Japan. In addition to an average secular increase in atmospheric CO2 of 1.8 ppm yr−1, diurnal variation with a maximum during the night-time to early morning and a minimum in the afternoon is observed from late spring to early fall; the diurnal cycle is not so clearly observed in the remaining seasons of the year. A concentration difference between above and below the canopy, and its diurnal variation, can also be seen clearly in summer. Daily mean concentration data show a prominent seasonal cycle. The maximum and the minimum of the seasonal cycle occur in April and from mid August to mid September, respectively. Day-to-day changes in the diurnal cycle of CO2 are highly dependent on the day-to-day variations in meteorological conditions. However, CO2 variations on longer time scales (>10 d) appear to be linearly related to changes in respiration. At Takayama, variations in the 10-d standard deviation of daily mean CO2 data and 10-d averaged respiration show distinct relationships with soil temperature during spring and fall seasons. In spring, respiration has a stronger exponential dependence on soil temperature than in fall. Interestingly, in summer when soil temperature becomes greater than about 15 °C, biological respiration becomes more variable and independent of the soil temperature. Thus, at the Takayama site, the Q10 relationship is seasonally dependent, and does not represent well the biological respiration process when the soil temperature rises above 15 °C.

    How to Cite: Murayama, S., Saigusa, N., Chan, D., Yamamoto, S., Kondo, H. and Eguchi, Y., 2003. Temporal variations of atmospheric CO2 concentration in a temperate deciduous forest in central Japan. Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology, 55(2), pp.232–243. DOI: http://doi.org/10.3402/tellusb.v55i2.16751
      Published on 01 Jan 2003
    Peer Reviewed
     CC BY 4.0
     Accepted on 20 Dec 2002            Submitted on 17 Jun 2002

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