COSORE: A community database for continuous soil respiration and other soil‐atmosphere greenhouse gas flux data
Copyright policy )COSORE: A community database for continuous soil respiration and other soil‐atmosphere greenhouse gas flux data
AbstractGlobally, soils store two to three times as much carbon as currently resides in the atmosphere, and it is critical to understand how soil greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and uptake will respond to ongoing climate change. In particular, the soil‐to‐atmosphere CO2 flux, commonly though imprecisely termed soil respiration (RS), is one of the largest carbon fluxes in the Earth system. An increasing number of high‐frequency RS measurements (typically, from an automated system with hourly sampling) have been made over the last two decades; an increasing number of methane measurements are being made with such systems as well. Such high frequency data are an invaluable resource for understanding GHG fluxes, but lack a central database or repository. Here we describe the lightweight, open‐source COSORE (COntinuous SOil REspiration) database and software, that focuses on automated, continuous and long‐term GHG flux datasets, and is intended to serve as a community resource for earth sciences, climate change syntheses and model evaluation. Contributed datasets are mapped to a single, consistent standard, with metadata on contributors, geographic location, measurement conditions and ancillary data. The design emphasizes the importance of reproducibility, scientific transparency and open access to data. While being oriented towards continuously measured RS, the database design accommodates other soil‐atmosphere measurements (e.g. ecosystem respiration, chamber‐measured net ecosystem exchange, methane fluxes) as well as experimental treatments (heterotrophic only, etc.). We give brief examples of the types of analyses possible using this new community resource and describe its accompanying R software package.
- University of British Columbia Canada
- The Ohio State University at Marion United States
- University of Sydney Australia
- Stanford University United States
- University System of Ohio United States
Atmospheric sciences, Ecosystem respiration, 550, Nitrous Oxide, open data, Organic chemistry, soil-to-atmosphere CO2 flux, soil respiration, Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Soil, Engineering, open science, Soil water, Global and Planetary Change, DegreeDisciplines::Physical Sciences and Mathematics::Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology::Climate, Primary production, Ecology, carbon dioxide; greenhouse gases; methane; open data; open science; soil respiration, Respiration, methane, Soil Water Retention, Open data, Life Sciences, Geology, Soil respiration, Biological Sciences, Soil carbon, DegreeDisciplines::Life Sciences::Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 02 Zero Hunger, Biological sciences, Chemistry, Greenhouse gases, Technical Advance, Emissions, Physical Sciences, Open science, Methane, 570, Mechanics and Transport in Unsaturated Soils, databases, Soil Science, DegreeDisciplines::Physical Sciences and Mathematics::Earth Sciences::Soil Science, ENVIRONMENT/ECOLOGY, Greenhouse gas, Environmental science, Database, Greenhouse Gases, 13 Acción por el clima, XXXXXX - Unknown, greenhouse gases, Soil Water Characteristic, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, Soil Carbon Sequestration, Biology, Ecosystem, Civil and Structural Engineering, Soil science, 13 Climate Action, info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/550, 15 Vida de ecosistemas terrestres, ddc:550, Atmosphere, 15 Life on Land, 02 Hambre cero, Reproducibility of Results, carbon dioxide, FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences, Carbon Dioxide, Computer science, Climate Action, Environmental sciences, Earth sciences, automated, continuous and long-term GHG flux, Carbon dioxide, Soil Hydraulic Properties, FOS: Biological sciences, Global Methane Emissions and Impacts, Environmental Science, Flux (metallurgy), Soil Carbon Dynamics and Nutrient Cycling in Ecosystems, Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation, Environmental Sciences, 2.6 Resources and infrastructure (aetiology)
Atmospheric sciences, Ecosystem respiration, 550, Nitrous Oxide, open data, Organic chemistry, soil-to-atmosphere CO2 flux, soil respiration, Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Soil, Engineering, open science, Soil water, Global and Planetary Change, DegreeDisciplines::Physical Sciences and Mathematics::Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology::Climate, Primary production, Ecology, carbon dioxide; greenhouse gases; methane; open data; open science; soil respiration, Respiration, methane, Soil Water Retention, Open data, Life Sciences, Geology, Soil respiration, Biological Sciences, Soil carbon, DegreeDisciplines::Life Sciences::Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 02 Zero Hunger, Biological sciences, Chemistry, Greenhouse gases, Technical Advance, Emissions, Physical Sciences, Open science, Methane, 570, Mechanics and Transport in Unsaturated Soils, databases, Soil Science, DegreeDisciplines::Physical Sciences and Mathematics::Earth Sciences::Soil Science, ENVIRONMENT/ECOLOGY, Greenhouse gas, Environmental science, Database, Greenhouse Gases, 13 Acción por el clima, XXXXXX - Unknown, greenhouse gases, Soil Water Characteristic, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, Soil Carbon Sequestration, Biology, Ecosystem, Civil and Structural Engineering, Soil science, 13 Climate Action, info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/550, 15 Vida de ecosistemas terrestres, ddc:550, Atmosphere, 15 Life on Land, 02 Hambre cero, Reproducibility of Results, carbon dioxide, FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences, Carbon Dioxide, Computer science, Climate Action, Environmental sciences, Earth sciences, automated, continuous and long-term GHG flux, Carbon dioxide, Soil Hydraulic Properties, FOS: Biological sciences, Global Methane Emissions and Impacts, Environmental Science, Flux (metallurgy), Soil Carbon Dynamics and Nutrient Cycling in Ecosystems, Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation, Environmental Sciences, 2.6 Resources and infrastructure (aetiology)
