Water quality and gas fluxes of Interior Alaska (2014-2018)

This product consists of multiple tabular datasets and associated metadata of water quality information related to rivers, streams, and lakes in the Yukon River watershed between 2014 and 2018. This data release is apart of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) funded Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE) and is an assessment of water quality and greenhouse gas fluxes within the interior of Alaska. Sampling frequency varied across locations, with some sites sampled twice a year or more. Data consist of: organic and inorganic carbon related species, carbon dioxide and methane gas fluxes calculated from manual chamber measurements, nitrogen species, carbon isotopes, oxygen and deuterium...

Categories: Data; Types: Data, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Alaska, Boot Lake, CH4, CO2, CO2 Bubble Trap, All tags... Canvasback Lake, Carbon, DIC, DOC, Dalton Highway, Datasets/Database, Interior Alaska, Steese Highway, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Quality, Water Resources, Yukon Flats, alkalinity, ammonium, anion, biogeochemical cycling, calcium, carbon dioxide, carbon flux, cation, chloride, deuterium, dissolved inorganic carbon, dissolved organic carbon, greenhouse gas flux, lake chemistry, magnesium, methane, nitrate, nitrogen, sodium, specific conductance, stream chemistry, sulfate, total dissolved nitrogen, total iron, water chemistry, water isotopes, water quality, water resources, Fewer tags

Carbon isotope fractionation of dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) due to outgassing of carbon dioxide from a headwater stream

The stable isotopic composition of dissolved inorganic carbon (δ13C-DIC) was investigated as a potential tracer of streamflow generation processes at the Sleepers River Research Watershed, Vermont, USA. Downstream sampling showed δ13C-DIC increased between 3–5‰ from the stream source to the outlet weir approximately 0·5 km downstream, concomitant with increasing pH and decreasing PCO2. An increase in δ13C-DIC of 2·4 ± 0·1‰ per log unit decrease of excess PCO2 (stream PCO2 normalized to atmospheric PCO2) was observed from downstream transect data collected during snowmelt. Isotopic fractionation of DIC due to CO2 outgassing rather than exchange with atmospheric CO2 may be the primary cause of increased δ13C-DIC values...

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: DIC, Stab, carbon dioxide, catchment, headwater stream