Airborne observations reveal elevational gradient in tropical forest isoprene emissions

• Autor(a) principal: Gu, Dasa
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Guenther, Alex B., Shilling, John E., Yu, Haofei, Huang, Maoyi, Zhao, Chun, Yang, Qing, Martin, Scot T., Artaxo, Paulo, Kim, Saewung, Seco, Roger, Stavrakou, Trissevgeni, Longo, Karla Maria, Tóta, Júlio, Souza, Rodrigo Augusto Ferreira de, Vega, Oscar B., Liu, Ying, Shrivastava, Manish K., Alves, Eliane Gomes, Santos, Fernando C., Leng, Guoyong, Hu, Zhiyuan
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional do INPA
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.inpa.gov.br/handle/1/15734
• topic: Isoprene; Air Quality; Airborne Survey; Eddy Covariance; Elevation; Isoprene; Satellite Altimetry; Tropical Forest; Volatile Organic Compound; Air Pollution; Air Quality; Airborne Paircraft; Amazonas; Boundary Layer; Carbon Footprint; Climate Change; Eddy Covariance; Environmental Impact; Global Climate; Land Use; Mass Spectrometry; Measurement; Photooxidation; Pollution Monitoring; Prediction; Proton Transport; Species Distribution; Tropical Rain Forest; Wavelet Analysis; Amazonia

Isoprene dominates global non-methane volatile organic compound emissions, and impacts tropospheric chemistry by influencing oxidants and aerosols. Isoprene emission rates vary over several orders of magnitude for different plants, and characterizing this immense biological chemodiversity is a challenge for estimating isoprene emission from tropical forests. Here we present the isoprene emission estimates from aircraft eddy covariance measurements over the Amazonian forest. We report isoprene emission rates that are three times higher than satellite top-down estimates and 35% higher than model predictions. The results reveal strong correlations between observed isoprene emission rates and terrain elevations, which are confirmed by similar correlations between satellite-derived isoprene emissions and terrain elevations. We propose that the elevational gradient in the Amazonian forest isoprene emission capacity is determined by plant species distributions and can substantially explain isoprene emission variability in tropical forests, and use a model to demonstrate the resulting impacts on regional air quality. © The Author(s) 2017.