Articles | Volume 11, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-5335-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-5335-2018
Research article
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25 Sep 2018
Research article |  | 25 Sep 2018

Measuring turbulent CO2 fluxes with a closed-path gas analyzer in a marine environment

Martti Honkanen, Juha-Pekka Tuovinen, Tuomas Laurila, Timo Mäkelä, Juha Hatakka, Sami Kielosto, and Lauri Laakso

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The exchange rate of carbon dioxide (CO2) between the atmosphere and the sea is typically small compared to the fluxes observed in the terrestrial ecosystems, causing technical challenges for the measurements of the CO2 sea–air fluxes. In this paper, we examine CO2 sea–air flux measurements carried out on a fixed station on an island. The problems generated by water vapor interference and unmet theoretical assumptions of the eddy covariance method are addressed.