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Flux and age of dissolved organic carbon exported to the Arctic Ocean: A carbon isotopic study of the five largest arctic rivers

Global biogeochemical cycles, 2007-12, Vol.21 (4), p.GB4011-n/a [Peer Reviewed Journal]

2008 American Geophysical Union ;Copyright 2007 by the American Geophysical Union. ;2008 INIST-CNRS ;ISSN: 0886-6236 ;EISSN: 1944-9224 ;DOI: 10.1029/2007GB002934 ;CODEN: GBCYEP

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  • Title:
    Flux and age of dissolved organic carbon exported to the Arctic Ocean: A carbon isotopic study of the five largest arctic rivers
  • Author: Raymond, Peter A. ; McClelland, J. W. ; Holmes, R. M. ; Zhulidov, A. V. ; Mull, K. ; Peterson, B. J. ; Striegl, R. G. ; Aiken, G. R. ; Gurtovaya, T. Y.
  • Subjects: Arctic ; Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling ; Biogeosciences ; Carbon cycling ; DOC ; Geochemical cycles ; Geochemistry ; Isotopic composition and chemistry ; river
  • Is Part Of: Global biogeochemical cycles, 2007-12, Vol.21 (4), p.GB4011-n/a
  • Description: The export and Δ14C‐age of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) was determined for the Yenisey, Lena, Ob', Mackenzie, and Yukon rivers for 2004–2005. Concentrations of DOC elevate significantly with increasing discharge in these rivers, causing approximately 60% of the annual export to occur during a 2‐month period following spring ice breakup. We present a total annual flux from the five rivers of ∼16 teragrams (Tg), and conservatively estimate that the total input of DOC to the Arctic Ocean is 25–36 Tg, which is ∼5–20% greater than previous fluxes. These fluxes are also ∼2.5× greater than temperate rivers with similar watershed sizes and water discharge. Δ14C‐DOC shows a clear relationship with hydrology. A small pool of DOC slightly depleted in Δ14C is exported with base flow. The large pool exported with spring thaw is enriched in Δ14C with respect to current‐day atmospheric Δ14C‐CO2 values. A simple model predicts that ∼50% of DOC exported during the arctic spring thaw is 1–5 years old, ∼25% is 6–10 years in age, and 15% is 11–20 years old. The dominant spring melt period, a historically undersampled period, exports a large amount of young and presumably semilabile DOC to the Arctic Ocean.
  • Publisher: Washington, DC: American Geophysical Union
  • Language: English;Russian
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0886-6236
    EISSN: 1944-9224
    DOI: 10.1029/2007GB002934
    CODEN: GBCYEP
  • Source: Wiley Blackwell AGU Digital Archive
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