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- Title
Ozone deposition into a boreal forest over a decade of observations: evaluating deposition partitioning and driving variables.
- Authors
Rannik, Ü.; Altimir, N.; Mammarella, I.; Bäck, J.; Rinne, J.; Ruuskanen, T. M.; Hari, P.; Vesala, T.; Kulmala, M.
- Abstract
This study scrutinizes a decade-long series of ozone deposition measurements in a boreal forest in search for the signature and relevance of the different deposition processes. Canopy-level ozone flux measurements were analysed for deposition characteristics and partitioning into stomatal and non-stomatal fractions, focusing on growing season day-time data. Ten years of measurements enabled the analysis of ozone deposition variation at different time-scales, including daily to inter-annual variation as well as the dependence on environmental variables and concentration of biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOC-s). Stomatal deposition was estimated by using multi-layer canopy dispersion and optimal stomatal control modelling from simultane- ous carbon dioxide and water vapour flux measurements, non-stomatal was inferred as residual. Also, utilising big-leaf assumption stomatal conductance was inferred from water vapour fluxes for dry canopy conditions. The total ozone deposition was highest during the peak growing season (4mms-1) and lowest during winter dormancy (1mms-1). During the course of the growing season the fraction of the non-stomatal deposition of ozone was determined to vary from 26 to 44% during day time, increasing from the start of the season until the end of the growing season. By using multi-variate analysis it was determined that day-time total ozone deposition was mainly driven by photosynthetic capacity of the canopy, vapour pressure deficit (VPD), photosynthetically active radiation and monoterpene concentration. The multi-variate linear model explained high portion of ozone deposition variance on daily average level (R² =0.79). The explanatory power of the multi-variate model for ozone non-stomatal deposition was much lower (R² =0.38). Model calculation was performed to evaluate the potential sink strength of the chemical reactions of ozone with sesquiterpenes in the canopy air space, which revealed that sesquiterpenes in typical amounts at the site were unlikely to cause significant ozone loss in canopy air space. This was also confirmed by the statistical analysis that did not link measured sesquiterpene concentration with ozone deposition. It was concluded that chemical reactions with monoterpenes, or other removal mechanisms such as surface reactions, play a role as ozone non-stomatal sink inside canopy.
- Subjects
ATMOSPHERIC ozone; ATMOSPHERIC deposition; TAIGAS; METEOROLOGICAL observations; FOREST canopy ecology; SEASONS; ATMOSPHERIC models; ATMOSPHERIC carbon dioxide
- Publication
Atmospheric Chemistry & Physics Discussions, 2012, Vol 12, Issue 5, p12715
- ISSN
1680-7367
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5194/acpd-12-12715-2012