Articles | Volume 9, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5523-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5523-2016
Research article
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21 Nov 2016
Research article |  | 21 Nov 2016

Inferring 222Rn soil fluxes from ambient 222Rn activity and eddy covariance measurements of CO2

Sander van der Laan, Swagath Manohar, Alex Vermeulen, Fred Bosveld, Harro Meijer, Andrew Manning, Michiel van der Molen, and Ingrid van der Laan-Luijkx

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A new methodology is presented to estimate regional-scale surface fluxes of 222Rn. 222Rn is an increasingly important trace gas which is used to calculate regional-scale greenhouse gas emissions and to validate atmospheric transport models. We tested our method at two atmospheric research stations in the Netherlands and compared our results with measurements from accumulation chambers and two recently published 222Rn soil flux maps for Europe.