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DOI 10.5194/bg-18-1619-2021
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Titel (primär) Technical note: CO2 is not like CH4 – limits of and corrections to the headspace method to analyse pCO2 in fresh water
Autor Koschorreck, M.; Prairie, Y.T.; Kim, J.; Marcé, R.
Quelle Biogeosciences
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
Department SEEFO
Band/Volume 18
Heft 5
Seite von 1619
Seite bis 1627
Sprache englisch
Topic T5 Future Landscapes
Daten-/Softwarelinks https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4577401
Supplements https://bg.copernicus.org/articles/18/1619/2021/bg-18-1619-2021-supplement.zip
https://bg.copernicus.org/articles/18/1619/2021/#section5
https://bg.copernicus.org/articles/18/1619/2021/#section6
Abstract 1Headspace analysis of CO2 frequently has been used to quantify the concentration of CO2 in fresh water. According to basic chemical theory, not considering chemical equilibration of the carbonate system in the sample vials will result in a systematic error. By analysing the potential error for different types of water and experimental conditions, we show that the error incurred by headspace analysis of CO2 is less than 5 % for typical samples from boreal systems which have low alkalinity (< 900 µmol L−1), with pH < 7.5, and high pCO2 (> 1000 µatm). However, the simple headspace calculation can lead to high error (up to −300 %) or even impossibly negative values in highly undersaturated samples equilibrated with ambient air, unless the shift in carbonate equilibrium is explicitly considered. The precision of the method can be improved by lowering the headspace ratio and/or the equilibration temperature. We provide a convenient and direct method implemented in an R script or a JMP add-in to correct CO2 headspace results using separately measured alkalinity.
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Koschorreck, M., Prairie, Y.T., Kim, J., Marcé, R. (2021):
Technical note: CO2 is not like CH4 – limits of and corrections to the headspace method to analyse pCO2 in fresh water
Biogeosciences 18 (5), 1619 - 1627 10.5194/bg-18-1619-2021