Technical note: An inverse method to relate organic carbon reactivity to isotope composition from serial oxidation

Hemingway, Jordon D.; Rothman, Daniel H.; Rosengard, Sarah Z.; Galy, Valier V.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-5099-2017

Articles | Volume 14, issue 22

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-5099-2017

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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-5099-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 14, issue 22

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15 Nov 2017

Research article |

| 15 Nov 2017

Technical note: An inverse method to relate organic carbon reactivity to isotope composition from serial oxidation

Jordon D. Hemingway, Daniel H. Rothman, Sarah Z. Rosengard, and Valier V. Galy

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RC1: 'review of Hemingway et al.', David Burdige, 01 Sep 2017
- AC1: 'Response to Reviewer 1', Jordon Hemingway, 21 Sep 2017
  - RC4: 'response to my review', David Burdige, 22 Sep 2017
RC2: 'Comment on "An inverse method to relate organic carbon reactivity to isotope composition from serial oxidation"', Bernard Boudreau, 03 Sep 2017
- AC2: 'Response to Reviewer 2', Jordon Hemingway, 21 Sep 2017
  - RC3: 'Reply', Bernard Boudreau, 22 Sep 2017
AC3: 'Response', Jordon Hemingway, 05 Oct 2017

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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (Editor review) (05 Oct 2017) by Jack Middelburg

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ED: Publish as is (10 Oct 2017) by Jack Middelburg

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The balance between organic matter (OM) fixation and decay is a major control on atmospheric CO₂ concentrations. Understanding the environmental, chemical, and physical mechanisms that control the distribution of OM decay rates is therefore critical for constraining the global carbon cycle. In this manuscript, we derive a method to relate OM reactivity to its isotope composition using a kinetic model and provide a novel framework to discern the controls on OM decay rates.