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Fluvial carbon flux from headwater peatland streams: significance of particulate carbon flux 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
The extensive blanket peatlands of the UK uplands account for almost half of total national terrestrial carbon storage. However, much of the blanket peat is severely eroded so that the contemporary role of the peatland system in carbon sequestration is compromised by losses of organic carbon in dissolved (DOC) and particulate (POC) form in the fluvial system. This paper presents the first detailed assessment of dissolved and organic carbon losses from a severely eroded headwater peatland (River Ashop, South Pennines, UK). Total annual fluvial organic carbon losses range from 29–106 Mg C km,‐2 decreasing from the headwaters to the main catchment outlet. In contrast to less eroded systems fluvial organic carbon flux is dominated by POC. POC:DOC ratios decrease from values of 4 in the headwaters to close to unity at the catchment outlet. These results demonstrate the importance of eroding headwater sites as sources of POC to the fluvial system. Comparison with a range of catchment characteristics reveals that drainage density is the best predictor of POC:DOC but there is scatter in the relation in the headwaters. Steep declines in specific POC yield from headwater catchments are consistent with storage of POC within the fluvial system. Key to the significance of fluvial carbon flux in greenhouse gas budgets is understanding the fate of fluvial carbon. Further work on the fate of POC and the role of floodplains in fluvial carbon cycling is urgently required. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 相似文献
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Abstract: This article explores environmental imaginaries of colonization in lowland Canterbury. In 1844 Edward Shortland observed that his Māori companions had an exceptionally detailed geographical knowledge of the area and its resources, yet a few years later European settlers were viewing it as an empty stage on which to envision newly‐constructed landscapes. The terrain was contested, but colonial ‘improvement’, through the creation of spaces of modernity, took no cognizance of this. The legacies of that transformation are a simplified, orderly landscape, and fractured but persistent memories of indigenous ecosystems that are now being revived. 相似文献
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The following 15 papers in this issue of the ICES Journal ofMarine Science are based on presentations given at a Theme Session—"Isthere more to Eels than Slime?"—at the ICES Annual ScienceConference held in Maastricht, the Netherlands, during September2006. International involvement in research on the Europeaneel (Anguilla anguilla) started in 1968, when a draft synopsisof eel biology, fisheries, and aquaculture was prepared at theEuropean Inland Fisheries Advisory Commission (EIFAC) sessionin Rome. By 1975, an ICES Eel Working Group had been set up(WGEEL), and it met in Copenhagen to document information oneel populations and fisheries and, for the first time, to notedeclining trends in catches. These were the subjects of a jointEIFAC/ICES symposium in Helsinki in 1976, where mitigation byrestocking was first proposed, 相似文献
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Stratospheric sudden warming events in the Northern Hemisphere of the Berlin TSM GCM are investigated. In about 50% of the simulated years (13 out of 28), major midwinter warmings occur. This agrees well with observations but, whereas real events tend to occur approximately every second season, those in the model are clustered, most of them occur in the period between years 15/16 and years 24/25. In most other years, minor warming events take place. The warming events are found earlier in the winter than in reality. Many of the observed characteristics of warming events are well captured by the model: pulses of wave activity propagate out of the troposphere; these transient events force the zonal-mean zonal wind in the stratosphere and coincide with increases of the temperature at the North Pole and cooling at low levels in the tropics; temperature changes of opposite sign are modelled at higher levels. Synoptically, the modelled stratosphere evolves quite realistically before the warmings: the cyclonic vortex is displaced from the Pole by an amplifying anticyclone. After minor warmings, the stratosphere remains too disturbed as the cyclonic centre does not return to the North Pole as quickly as in reality. In the aftermath of major warmings the cyclonic vortex is not fully eroded and the anticyclonic circulation does not develop properly over the Pole; furthermore, the wintertime circulation is not properly restored after the event. 相似文献
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Reanalysis datasets potentially offer the opportunity to examine the tropical quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO) in greater
detail than in the past, including the associated meridional circulation and the links with other parts of the atmosphere.
For such studies to be useful, the QBO represented by the reanalyses should be realistic. In this work, the QBO in the ERA
and NCEP reanalyses is validated against rawinsonde observations from Singapore. Monthly mean data are used. In the lower
stratosphere (at 50 hPa and 30 hPa) the ERA QBO is reasonable, although the wind extrema in both phases are too weak and the
vertical shear and the temperature anomalies are too small. The NCEP QBO is weaker still. At 10 hPa neither reanalysis system
performs well, both systems failing to reproduce the westerlies, possibly because of the proximity of the upper boundary.
The Singapore wind is representative of the zonal means in the reanalyses. The weak wind extrema in the reanalyses would not
support a wave-mean flow interaction theory of the QBO, because a large portion of the gravity wave spectrum which would be
absorbed in reality would be transmitted beyond 10 hPa. The stronger shear zones captured in the ERA data are associated with
larger, more realistic temperature perturbations near 30 hPa. The northward velocities in the NCEP data show a more realistic
structure than in the ERA reanalysis, where they are dominated by a vertical “gridpoint wave” structure in the lowermost stratosphere.
Despite the shortcomings of the reanalyses, the high correlations of the wind at 30 hPa and 50 hPa with the observations at
Singapore mean that the reanalyses could potentially be used to examine the effects of the QBO away from the tropical stratosphere.
Future reanalyses need to take full account of the wind shears evident in the rawinsonde observations and use models with
an adequate resolution to capture these vertical scales.
Received: 23 June 1997/Accepted 17 December 1998 相似文献
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