Summary:

The BOREAS TGB-12 team made measurements of soil carbon inventories, carbon concentration in soil gases, and rates of soil respiration at several sites to estimate the rates of carbon accumulation and turnover in each of the major vegetation types. Sampling strategies for soils were designed to take advantage of local fire chronosequences, so that the accumulation of C in regrowing mosses could be determined. All the data are used to (1) calculate the inventory of C and N in moss and mineral soil layers at NSA sites (2) determine the rates of input and turnover (using both accumulation since the last stand-killing fire and radiocarbon data) and (3) link changes in soil respiration rate to shifts in the 14C content of soil CO2 to determine the average 'age' respired CO2. These 222Rn activity data were collected from 15-NOV-1993 to 16-AUG-1994 over the NSA sites.

A guide document which includes more information about this data set can be found at https://daac.ornl.gov/daacdata/boreas/TGB/tgb12rad/comp/TGB12_RadonActivity.txt.

ORNL DAAC maintains information on the entire BOREAS Project.

Data Citation

Cite this data set as follows:

Harden, J. W., S. E. Trumbore, E. T. Sundquist, and G. C. Winston. 1998. BOREAS TGB-12 Radon-222 Activity Data over the NSA. Data set. Available on-line [http://www.daac.ornl.gov] from Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, U.S.A. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/400.

References:

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Goh, K. M., Carbon dating, chapter 8 (pp. 125 - 145), in, D. C. Coleman and B. Fry, Carbon isotope techniques, Academic Press, San Diego (1991).

ONeill, K. P., J. W. Harden, S. E. Trumbore, H. Veldhuis, 1995. U S Geological Survey Open File Report.

Harden, J. W., K. P. O'Neill, S. E. Trumbore, H. Veldhuis, and B. J. Stocks, submitted. Accumulation and Turnover of carbon in soils of the BOREAS NSA 2. Carbon balance in soils of a mature black spruce stand (BOREAS NSA OBS). submitted for JGR Atmospheres special BOREAS issue.

Southon, J., R., J. S. Vogel, S. E. Trumbore and others, Progress in AMS measurements at the LLNL spectrometer, Radiocarbon 34: 473 - 477 (1992).

Stuiver, M. and H. Polach., Reporting of 14C data. Radiocarbon 19: 355-363 (1977).

Stuiver, M. and R. Kra, 1993. Radiocarbon v. 35 No 1. Calibration Issue.

Taylor, R. E., A. Long, and R. Kra, eds., Radiocarbon after Four Decades: An interdisciplinary perspective, Springer-Verlag, NY,596 pp. (1992).

Trumbore,S. E., Comparison of carbon dynamics in two soils using measurements of radiocarbon in pre-and post-bomb soils. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 7:275-290 (1993).

Trumbore, S. E. and J. W. Harden. 1977. Accumulation and turnover of carbon in organic and mineral soils of the BOREAS northern study area. Journal of Geophysical Research, BOREAS Special Issue, 102(D24), Dec. 1997, pp. 28817-28830.

Trumbore, S. E. Measurement of cosmogenic isotopes by accelerator mass spectrometry: applications to soil science, p. 311-340 in Mass Spectrometry of Soils, T. Boutton and S. Yamasaki, eds, Marcel Dekker (New York) (1996).

Verardo, D., Froelich, P.N. and McIntyre, A., 1990. Determination of organic carbon and nitrogen in marine sediments using the Carlo-Erba-N!-1500 Analyzer. Deep-Sea Research, Part A - Oceanographic Research Papers 37:157-165.

Davidson, E. A. and S. E. Trumbore. Gas diffusivity and production of CO2 in deep soils of the eastern Amazon, Tellus. 47B: 550-565 (1995).

Mathieu, G. G. P. E. Biscaye, R. A. Lupton and D. E. Hammond, 1988. System for measurement of 222Rn at low levels in natural waters. Heath Physics 55:989-992.

Stephens, B. B. and E. T. Sundquist, submitted. Measurements of soil surface gas fluxes using closed chamber techniques. (contact authors for status - Stephens is now a student at Scripps Institution of oceanography)

Winston, G. C., E. T. Sundquist, B. B. Stephens and S. E. Trumbore. 1977. Winter CO2 fluxes in a boreal forest.Journal of Geophysical Research, BOREAS Special Issue, 102(D24), Dec. 1997, pp. 28795-28804.

Data Format:

For information on Parameter/Variable Names, Variable Description/Definition, Units of Measurement, and Data File Format see this companion file https://daac.ornl.gov/daacdata/boreas/TGB/tgb12rad/comp/tgb12rad.def

Document Information:

28-Oct-1998 (data set citation revised on 10-Sep-2002)

Document Review Date:

28-Oct-1998

Document Curator:

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Document URL:

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