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The carbon budget of South Asia

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25 Jan 2013

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P. K. Patra, J. G. Canadell, R. A. Houghton, S. L. Piao, N.-H. Oh, P. Ciais, K. R. Manjunath, A. Chhabra, T. Wang, T. Bhattacharya, P. Bousquet, J. Hartman, A. Ito, E. Mayorga, Y. Niwa, P. A. Raymond, V. V. S. S. Sarma, and R. Lasco

The source and sinks of carbon dioxide (CO₂) and methane (CH₄) due to anthropogenic and natural biospheric activities were estimated for the South Asian region (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka). Flux estimates were based on top-down methods that use inversions of atmospheric data, and bottom-up methods that use field observations, satellite data, and terrestrial ecosystem models. Based on atmospheric CO₂ inversions, the net biospheric CO₂ flux in South Asia (equivalent to the Net Biome Productivity, NBP) was a sink, estimated at −104 ± 150 Tg C yr⁻¹ during 2007–2008. Based on the bottom-up approach, the net biospheric CO₂ flux is estimated to be −191 ± 193 Tg C yr⁻¹ during the period of 2000–2009. This last net flux results from the following flux components: (1) the Net Ecosystem Productivity, NEP (net primary production minus heterotrophic respiration) of −220 ± 186 Tg C yr⁻¹ (2) the annual net carbon flux from land-use change of −14 ± 50 Tg C yr⁻¹, which resulted from a sink of −16 Tg C yr⁻¹ due to the establishment of tree plantations and wood harvest, and a source of 2 Tg C yr⁻¹ due to the expansion of croplands; (3) the riverine export flux from terrestrial ecosystems to the coastal oceans of +42.9 Tg C yr⁻¹; and (4) the net CO₂ emission due to biomass burning of +44.1 ± 13.7 Tg C yr⁻¹. Including the emissions from the combustion of fossil fuels of 444 Tg C yr⁻¹ for the 2000s, we estimate a net CO₂ land–atmosphere flux of 297 Tg C yr⁻¹. In addition to CO₂, a fraction of the sequestered carbon in terrestrial ecosystems is released to the atmosphere as CH₄. Based on bottom-up and top-down estimates, and chemistry-transport modeling, we estimate that 37 ± 3.7 Tg C yr⁻¹ were released to atmosphere from South Asia during the 2000s. Taking all CO₂ and CH₄ fluxes together, our best estimate of the net land–atmosphere CO₂-equivalent flux is a net source of 334 Tg C yr⁻¹ for the South Asian region during the 2000s. If CH₄ emissions are weighted by radiative forcing of molecular CH₄, the total CO₂-equivalent flux increases to 1148 Tg C yr⁻¹ suggesting there is great potential of reducing CH₄ emissions for stabilizing greenhouse gases concentrations.

Received: 27 Aug 2012 – Discussion started: 05 Oct 2012 – Revised: 22 Dec 2012 – Accepted: 02 Jan 2013 – Published: 25 Jan 2013

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