Carbon dioxide emissions from the Three Gorges Reservoir,China

作     者：Shuang Li Fushun Wang Wenyun Luo Yuchun Wang Bing Deng 

作者机构：School of Environmental and Chemical EngineeringShanghai University Department of Water EnvironmentChina Institute of Water Resources and Hydroelectric Power Research State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal ResearchEast China Normal University 

出 版 物：《Acta Geochimica》 (地球化学学报（英文）)

年 卷 期：2017年第36卷第4期

页      面：645-657页

核心收录：

学科分类：081504[工学-水利水电工程] 08[工学] 081501[工学-水文学及水资源] 0815[工学-水利工程] 

基　　金：funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.41573064) The National Key Research and Development Program of China (No.2016YFA0601003) the Special S&T Project on Treatment and Control of Water Pollution (No.2012ZX07104-001) 

主　　题：C02 emissions Three Gorges Reservoir River-type reservoir 

摘      要：Carbon dioxide(CO_2) emission from the rivertype reservoir is an hotspot of carbon cycle within inland waters. However, related studies on the different types of reservoirs are still inadequate. Therefore, we sampled the Three Gorges Reservoir(TGR), a typical river-type reservoir having both river and lake characteristics, using an online system(HydroCTM/CO_2) and YSI-6600v2 meter to determine the partial pressure of carbon dioxide(pCO_2)and physical chemical parameters in 2013. The results showed that the CO_2 flux from the mainstream ranged from 26.1 to 92.2 mg CO_2/m^2h with average CO_2 fluxes of 50.0 mg/m^2h. The CO_2 fluxes from the tributary ranged from-10.91 to 53.95 mg CO_22/mh with area-weighted average CO_2 fluxes of 11.4 mg/m^2h. The main stream emits CO_2 to the atmosphere the whole year; however, the surface water of the tributary can sometimes act as a sink of CO_2 for the atmosphere. As the operation of the TGR, the tributary became more favorable to photosynthetic uptake of CO_2 especially in summer. The total CO_2 flux was estimated to be 0.34 and 0.03 Tg CO_2/year from the mainstream and the tributaries, respectively. Our emission rates are lower than previous estimates, but they are in agreement with the average CO_2 flux from temperate reservoirs estimated by Barros et al.(Nat Geosci 4(9):593–596, 2011).