Articles | Volume 14, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-1365-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-1365-2017
Research article
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20 Mar 2017
Research article |  | 20 Mar 2017

Gas chromatography vs. quantum cascade laser-based N2O flux measurements using a novel chamber design

Christian Brümmer, Bjarne Lyshede, Dirk Lempio, Jean-Pierre Delorme, Jeremy J. Rüffer, Roland Fuß, Antje M. Moffat, Miriam Hurkuck, Andreas Ibrom, Per Ambus, Heinz Flessa, and Werner L. Kutsch

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ED: Reconsider after major revisions (16 Sep 2016) by Xinming Wang
AR by Christian Brümmer on behalf of the Authors (23 Dec 2016)  Author's response    Manuscript
ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (11 Jan 2017) by Xinming Wang
RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (25 Jan 2017)
RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (01 Feb 2017)
ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (Editor review) (08 Feb 2017) by Xinming Wang
AR by Christian Brümmer on behalf of the Authors (22 Feb 2017)  Author's response    Manuscript
ED: Publish as is (28 Feb 2017) by Xinming Wang
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We present a novel chamber design for measuring soil–atmosphere N2O fluxes and compare the performance of a commonly applied gas chromatography (GC) setup with laser-based (QCL) concentration detection. While GC was still a useful method for longer-term investigations, we found that closure times of 10 min and sampling every 5 s is sufficient when using a QCL system. Further, extremely low standard errors (< 2 % of flux value) were observed regardless of linear or exponential flux calculation.
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