FIRST ESTIMATES OF GREENHOUSE GAS FLUXES ASSOCIATED WITH GROUNDWATER SOURCES IN PERMAFROST OF CENTRAL YAKUTIA

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Abstract

Estimates of methane and carbon dioxide fluxes into the atmosphere, associated with groundwater sources of continuous permafrost in central Yakutia were obtained for the first time. Average methane flux from intensively emitting groundwater springs is 211±85 mgC·m–2·h–1, and carbon dioxide is 93±67 mgC·m–2·h–1, which significantly exceeds fluxes of these gases from many subaerial ecosystems. Dissolved methane concentration is also high and varies from 1.6 to 4.8 mg·L–1. Research results emphasize the importance of groundwater discharge areas as methane sources in continuous permafrost and indicate the need for their further study. This is necessary to more accurately account for their contribution to the overall greenhouse gas balance and to establish the origin of the gases.

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N. I. Tananaev

North-Eastern Federal University named after M.K. Ammosova; Kamchatka Branch of Federal Research Center "Geophysical Survey of Russian Academy of Sciences"; Vitus Bering Kamchatka State University

Email: tanni@s-vfu.ru
Yakutsk, Russia; Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia; Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia

L. A. Krivenok

A.M. Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences

Moscow, Russia

N. E. Baishev

North-Eastern Federal University named after M.K. Ammosova; P.I. Melnikov Permafrost Institute, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Yakutsk, Russia; Yakutsk, Russia

N. A. Pavlova

P.I. Melnikov Permafrost Institute, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Yakutsk, Russia

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