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- W2155134481 abstract "Quantifying global-scale carbon assimilation by plants, or gross primary production (GPP), has been difficult because there are no direct measures at scales greater than the leaf level. An analysis of nearly 30 years of unpublished records of the oxygen isotope (18O/16O) composition of atmospheric carbon dioxide from sampling sites worldwide has provided a means of estimating the GPP that is not reliant on modelling. The data reveal previously unrecognized interannual fluctuations that are driven by El Niño climate events. The effect propagates from the tropics to higher latitudes through the tropical hydrological cycle. Recovery from El Niño events is rapid, implying a shorter turnover time for CO2 than is generally assumed, and suggests a best-guess figure for global GPP of 150–175 petagrams of carbon per year, rather than the current estimate of 120 petagrams. The stable isotope ratios of atmospheric CO2 (18O/16O and 13C/12C) have been monitored since 1977 to improve our understanding of the global carbon cycle, because biosphere–atmosphere exchange fluxes affect the different atomic masses in a measurable way1. Interpreting the 18O/16O variability has proved difficult, however, because oxygen isotopes in CO2 are influenced by both the carbon cycle and the water cycle2. Previous attention focused on the decreasing 18O/16O ratio in the 1990s, observed by the global Cooperative Air Sampling Network of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Earth System Research Laboratory. This decrease was attributed variously to a number of processes including an increase in Northern Hemisphere soil respiration3; a global increase in C4 crops at the expense of C3 forests4; and environmental conditions, such as atmospheric turbulence5 and solar radiation6, that affect CO2 exchange between leaves and the atmosphere. Here we present 30 years’ worth of data on 18O/16O in CO2 from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography global flask network and show that the interannual variability is strongly related to the El Niño/Southern Oscillation. We suggest that the redistribution of moisture and rainfall in the tropics during an El Niño increases the 18O/16O ratio of precipitation and plant water, and that this signal is then passed on to atmospheric CO2 by biosphere–atmosphere gas exchange. We show how the decay time of the El Niño anomaly in this data set can be useful in constraining global gross primary production. Our analysis shows a rapid recovery from El Niño events, implying a shorter cycling time of CO2 with respect to the terrestrial biosphere and oceans than previously estimated. Our analysis suggests that current estimates of global gross primary production, of 120 petagrams of carbon per year7, may be too low, and that a best guess of 150–175 petagrams of carbon per year better reflects the observed rapid cycling of CO2. Although still tentative, such a revision would present a new benchmark by which to evaluate global biospheric carbon cycling models." @default.
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- W2155134481 date "2011-09-01" @default.
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- W2155134481 title "Interannual variability in the oxygen isotopes of atmospheric CO2 driven by El Niño" @default.
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