Studies on background concentration and source-sink characteristics of CO2 in Wutai Mountain
LI Ying1, YAN Shi-ming1, WANG Shu-min1, ZHANG Feng-sheng1, YU Xiao-hong1, YANG Ai-qin1, YUE Jiang1, JIN Ze-hui2
1. Shanxi Institute of Meteorological Sciences, Shanxi Branch of Monitoring and Assessment Center for GHGs & Carbon Neutrality, China Meteorological Administration, Taiyuan 030002, China; 2. Wutaishan Meteorological Station, Wutaishan Cloud Physics Field Experiment Base, China Meteorological Administration, Xinzhou 035515, China
Abstract:Based on the continuous CO2 datasets from 2017 to 2020, observed at Wutaishan GHG station, the background concentration and source-sink characteristics of CO2 in Wutai Mountain were studied by using the Moving Average Filtering (MAF) method and backward trajectory analysis. The results show that the atmospheric CO2 concentrations were affected by regional or local sources/sinks, with the smaller hourly amplitude of background concentration (44.9×10-6), compared to that of unselected CO2 concentration (94.7×10-6). The CO2 background concentration had slowly increased from 2017 to 2020. Particularly, the proportion of rising concentration had decreased probably due to the weakened human activities. On the contrast, the variation in the absorption concentration was stable, inferring that the effect of terrestrial ecosystem on CO2 concentration was relatively stable. The seasonal mean of CO2 background concentration was the lowest in summer, secondly in autumn and winter, and the highest in spring. The diurnal variation in CO2 background concentration was most obvious in summer, with the peak and valley value around 5:00a.m. and 16:00p.m., respectively; the diurnal variation fluctuated slightly in other seasons with amplitudes merely between 0.7×10-6 and 1.8×10-6. Compared to the background concentration, the CO2 uplifting concentration differed remarkably from October to March, whereas the change in absorption concentration occurred from June to September, indicating impacts of anthropogenic emission and terrestrial ecosystem carbon absorption on CO2 concentration. The diurnal variation in source-sink concentrations displayed a single peak structure, and the rising concentration was high during the day and low at night, and the reversion was just for the absorption concentration. In spring, autumn and winter, the southwest wind was mainly responsible for the significant CO2 uplift, and CO2 concentration could stay at a high level with an increase in wind speed; while, in summer,the northeast easterly wind obviously enhanced the observed values. Besides, in spring and summer, the wind speed between 2 and 4m/s was conducive to reduce the CO2 absorption concentration. Evidently, the impact of long-range transport of air masses on the source-sink concentrations depend not only on the source strength of CO2 in the pathway, but also on the spatial vertical transport path of the air masses.
李莹, 闫世明, 王淑敏, 张逢生, 于小红, 杨爱琴, 岳江, 靳泽辉. 五台山大气CO2本底浓度及源汇特征[J]. 中国环境科学, 2022, 42(8): 3572-3583.
LI Ying, YAN Shi-ming, WANG Shu-min, ZHANG Feng-sheng, YU Xiao-hong, YANG Ai-qin, YUE Jiang, JIN Ze-hui. Studies on background concentration and source-sink characteristics of CO2 in Wutai Mountain. CHINA ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCECE, 2022, 42(8): 3572-3583.
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