Soil Microbial Processes Involved in Production and Consumption of Atmospheric Trace Gases

1995 ◽  
pp. 207-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralf Conrad

Soil microbial processes involved in the flux between soil and atmosphere of the atmospheric trace gases methane (CH 4 ), hydrogen (H 2 ), carbon monoxide (CO), carbonyl sulphide (OCS), nitrous oxide (N 2 O ), and nitric oxide (NO) are reviewed. The flux of a trace gas between soil and atmosphere is usually the result of simultaneous production and consumption reactions, so that a compensation concentration exists, at which the net flux is zero. With some of the trace gases, different suites of processes operate at different gas concentrations, so that the processes that consume a trace gas that is produced within the soil are often different from those that consume the trace gas entering the soil from the atmosphere. Certain groups of soil microorganisms can metabolize more than one of these trace gases. The processes involved in the cycling of a trace gas in anoxic wetland soils are often different from those operating in upland soils.


2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xianxin Li ◽  
Zhangjun Wang ◽  
Xiangqian Meng ◽  
Haijin Zhou ◽  
Libin Du ◽  
...  

1995 ◽  
Vol 99 (14) ◽  
pp. 5001-5008 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Gregory Huey ◽  
David R. Hanson ◽  
Carleton J. Howard

Sci ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 6
Author(s):  
Jie Cheng

A portable Fourier Transform Spectrometer (B3M-IR) is built and used to measure atmospheric trace gases in the city of Beijing during Olympic Games in 2008. A short description of the instrument is first provided in this paper. A detailed spectral analysis is then presented. The total columns of ozone (O3), carbon monoxide (CO), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) are retrieved from the ground-based solar absorption spectra recorded by the B3M-IR during the Olympic Games. Lacking validation data, only the retrieved total column of O3 is compared with that retrieved by MAX-DOAS, which is deployed at the same station. The mean difference between the two methods of measurement is 6.5%, demonstrating the performance and reliability of B3M-IR.


Tellus B ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-161
Author(s):  
WEI-CHYUNG WANG ◽  
GYULA MOLNAR ◽  
MALCOLM K.W. KO ◽  
STEVEN GOLDENBERG ◽  
NIEN DAK SZE

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