14 CO 2 measurement in the NOAA/ESRL Global Co- operative Sampling Network: An update on measurement and data quality Scott Lehman INSTAAR, University of Colorado at Boulder Jocelyn Turnbull, Chad Wolak - NOAA & INSTAAR, Boulder John Miller, Pieter Tans - CIRES & NOAA/ESRL, Boulder John Southon, UC Irvine, California
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14CO2 measurement in the NOAA/ESRL Global Co-operative Sampling Network: An update on measurement
and data quality
Scott LehmanINSTAAR, University of Colorado at Boulder
Jocelyn Turnbull, Chad Wolak - NOAA & INSTAAR, Boulder
John Miller, Pieter Tans - CIRES & NOAA/ESRL, Boulder
John Southon, UC Irvine, California
outline
• 14C systematics, sensitivity to Fff and Cff• quantification of Cff from 14CO2 and CO2• sampling and measurement protocols• measurement repeatability• measurement programs• representative results
– NWR surface (relatively clean FT as “bg”)– CMA vertical profiles (isolation of Cff and Cbio)
Fff (“Suess effect”) once again dominating secular trend
secular trends
data: Levin and Kromeranalysis: Naegler et al. 2006; Turnbull et al. in press
Δ=Δ14C=14 C
C( )sample
14 CC( )
standard
−1[ ] x 1000 ‰
sensitivity to Cff
1/λ14C = 8033 yr
fossil fuel CO2 Δ = -1000‰ (i.e. zero 14C content)
ambient atm. (& other CO2 sources) Δ = ~ +55‰
ΔΔ ff-atmCatm
=-1055‰380ppm = ~-2.8 ‰/ppm
- detection of ~1 ppm for recently-added fossil-fuel derivedCO2 (Cff) requires measurement precision of ~2‰
- detection is unbiased if other contributions to tropospheric14C distribution are small
Cff v. 14CO2 in TM5
•Fff is 7 GTC/yr global (1.6 GTC/yr US) distributed according to EDGAR2000, modelrepresents all terms influencing tropospheric 14C budget (except nuclear industry)
•distribution of Cff dominates Δ14CO2 signal over NH land areas (figures scaledaccording to mass balance relation of 2.8‰/ppm)
•ΔΔ14CCBL up to ~10 ‰, implying scientifically meaningful Δ14CO2 precision ~2‰
annual@350 m annual@350 m
• right hand term is correction to Cff of ~0.2 - 0.5 ppm, Cr and Δr can bedetermined independently (i.e. quantifiable)
• Cff detection effectively limited by quadrature sum uncertainty of two 14Cmeasurements (Δobs, Δbg)•psuedo-Lagrangian analysis framework (rel. obs to bg) is itself an “uncertainty”
quantification of Cff
ΔobsCobs= ΔbgCbg+ΔffCff+ΔrCr+ΔpCp
Cobs= Cbg+ Cff+ Cr+ Cp
and setting Δp = Δbg :
Cff =Cobs(Δobs- Δbg)
Δff - Δbg
C r(Δr- Δbg)Δff - Δbg
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Turnbull et al. 2006
sampling
• ~2-3 L parent air (0.4 - 0.6 mg C)
• to glass (“13C-proven”)– paired NOAA-ESRL network flasks (~2.2L)
• filled in series (several minutes flush/fill time)– NOAA-ESRL PFPʼs (aircraft) (700 cc at 40 psi)
•local pollution flagged based on CO (COa >15 ppb)
•scrubbed record can be used to provide representative “bg” meas. in psuedo-Lagrangian analysis framework (as m_m or harmonic fit) [i.e. Turnbull et al. JGR 2007]
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• Δ14CO2 difference signal is large w.r.t. measurement precision• data also resolves limitations of analysis framework - for example,enhanced N -> S transport of 14C-rich air in late summer
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isolation of Cff and Cbio, CMA
Cobs= Cbg+ Cff+ Cbio
(ΔC)obs= (ΔC)bg+ (ΔC)ff
- NWRfit
above (below) 2400m
isolation of Cff and Cbio, CMA
• includes correction for ΔCr
• Cbio large even in winter• Cff detectable year round, evenabove CBL• Cff & Cbio from same sample butindependently useful:
- constrain Fff, Fbio
- evaluate other Cff tracers
Cobs= Cbg+ Cff+ Cbio
(ΔC)obs= (ΔC)bg+ (ΔC)ff
above (below) 2400m
International Atmospheric 14CO2 Inter-comparisonto evaluate measurement precision, repeatability, and
laboratory inter-comparability to aid integration ofregional and global observations of 14CO2
EXTRACTION MEASUREMENT
UC-Irvine (US) UC-Irvine Keck AMS
Scripps (US) LLNL-CAMS
CU-INSTAAR (US) UC-Irvine Keck AMS
CIO - Groningen
(Netherlands)
Groningen-AMS
CAOS-Tohuku (Japan) Nagoya-AMS
ANSTO (Australia) ANSTO
•initial participants:
•progress•round two of flask inter-comparison complete
•interested parties may contact•John Miller (NOAA)
preliminary 14CO2 intercomparison results
• 2005 Experts’ Recommendation forlab intercomparability was 1 per mil.