Testing a Conceptual Model of Soil Emissions of Nitrous and Nitric Oxides

Eric A. Davidson; Michael Keller; Heather Erickson; Verchot NO-VALUE; Edzo Veldkamp

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Testing a Conceptual Model of Soil Emissions of Nitrous and Nitric Oxides

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Authors:

Eric A. Davidson, Michael Keller, Heather Erickson, Verchot NO-VALUE, Edzo Veldkamp

Year:

2000

Type:

Miscellaneous Publication

Station:

International Institute of Tropical Forestry

Source:

BioScience. Vol. 50 No. 8 :677-680

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Abstract

Nitrous and nitric oxides are often studied separately by atmospheric chemists because they play such different roles in the atmosphere. N2O is a stable greenhouse gas in the lower atmosphere (the troposphere; Ramanathan et al. 1985), but it participates in photochemical reactions in the upper atmosphere (the stratosphere) that destroy ozone (Crutzen 1970). In contrast, NO participates in photochemical reactions in the troposphere that produce ozone.

Citation

Davidson, Eric A.; Keller, Michael; Erickson, Heather E.;, Verchot, Louis V.; Veldkamp, Edzo. 2000. Testing a Conceptual Model of Soil Emissions of Nitrous and Nitric Oxides. BioScience August 2000 / Vol. 50 No. 8 :677-680