{"id":778,"date":"2019-12-06T19:01:48","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T19:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpd.ugr.es\/~ireche\/?p=778"},"modified":"2019-12-06T19:17:20","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T19:17:20","slug":"cronos-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpd.ugr.es\/~ireche\/?p=778","title":{"rendered":"CRONOS Project"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"CubillasCRONOS\"<\/strong><\/p>\n

Circadian, seasonal and climatic variability in greenhouse gas emissions in Mediterranean reservoirs: physical and biogeochemical drivers (CRONOS)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Inland waters are significant\u00a0sources of greenhouse gases (GHG), including CO2, CH4 and N2O. Globally, eutrophic reservoirs appear to be significant sources of\u00a0CH4, but the existing estimates of GHG emissions from reservoirs are highly uncertain. Partly because they are based on local\u00a0observations collected in a limited number of reservoirs that do not represent the large variety of those systems around the world. This is\u00a0the particular case of the Mediterranean biome, where, furthermore, reservoirs are the prevalent aquatic ecosystems. This astonishing lack\u00a0of data on GHG fluxes from reservoirs seriously limits our confidence on the global estimates of GHG emissions. The underlying problem\u00a0is that the few measurements that exist were collected mostly during daylight hours and under good weather conditions, which cannot fully\u00a0resolve the true temporal variability of emissions. Mediterranean reservoirs are characterized by hydrological and thermal regimes with\u00a0extreme seasonal changes leading to large fluctuations in the volume of water stored. Episodic water-level drawdowns due to seasonal\u00a0changes, and reservoir management for irrigation or hydropower production induce significant increases in methane emissions, mostly\u00a0through ebullition. In the Mediterranean biome, in addition, the hydrological cycle is changing as a consequence of climatic warming with\u00a0increasing frequencies of extreme events such as torrential rains and severe droughts. Heavy rainfall events, and the subsequent floods\u00a0that develop, are expected to bring large loads of sediments and organic carbon and nitrogen into the reservoirs that may fuel the\u00a0production of GHG. In contrast, during severe droughts, the fraction of the reservoir bed with sediments directly exposed to the\u00a0atmosphere increases, the water depth can be minimal and the water temperature maximal, so that GHG emissions are expected to\u00a0change too.\u00a0Accurate up-scaled estimates of global GHG emissions have to be based on more extensive observational data sets, including reservoirs\u00a0continuously sampled to capture circadian, seasonal, synoptic, and inter-annual variability. There is an urgent need to build a mechanistic\u00a0understanding GHG fluxes from reservoirs. We need to identify the physical and biogeochemical drivers that control the changes in gas\u00a0emissions to formulate basin-scale mass balances of these substances, so that the few measurements existing can be interpolated in time\u00a0and extrapolated to other systems, and include reservoirs in GHG inventories. Our general goal in project CRONOS is to determine the\u00a0relative importance of photochemical, biological and physical processes on circadian, seasonal, synoptic and inter-annual variability in the\u00a0GHG emissions in two Mediterranean reservoirs with contrasted depths and morphometries, and to propose a mechanistic model linking\u00a0water and GHG budgets. We will monitor GHG fluxes using high-time resolution instrumentation such as an eddy covariance tower (CO2,\u00a0CH4), funnel-shaped automated gas traps (CH4), echo-sounder (CH4), and laser-based cavity-ring down spectroscopy gas analyzer\u00a0(CO2, CH4, N2O) in the water columns and in the land-water interfaces. These time-series along with time series obtained for physical and\u00a0biogeochemical variables will be processed to built useful models to optimize reservoir management based on scientific knowledge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Circadian, seasonal and climatic variability in greenhouse gas emissions in Mediterranean reservoirs: physical and biogeochemical drivers (CRONOS) Inland waters are significant\u00a0sources of greenhouse gases (GHG), including CO2, CH4 and N2O. Globally, eutrophic reservoirs appear to be significant sources of\u00a0CH4, but… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":782,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"rttpg_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/wpd.ugr.es\/~ireche\/wp-content\/uploads\/cronos-logo.jpg",1266,479,false],"landscape":["https:\/\/wpd.ugr.es\/~ireche\/wp-content\/uploads\/cronos-logo.jpg",1266,479,false],"portraits":["https:\/\/wpd.ugr.es\/~ireche\/wp-content\/uploads\/cronos-logo.jpg",1266,479,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/wpd.ugr.es\/~ireche\/wp-content\/uploads\/cronos-logo-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/wpd.ugr.es\/~ireche\/wp-content\/uploads\/cronos-logo-300x114.jpg",300,114,true],"large":["https:\/\/wpd.ugr.es\/~ireche\/wp-content\/uploads\/cronos-logo-1024x387.jpg",642,243,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/wpd.ugr.es\/~ireche\/wp-content\/uploads\/cronos-logo.jpg",1266,479,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/wpd.ugr.es\/~ireche\/wp-content\/uploads\/cronos-logo.jpg",1266,479,false],"blog-large":["https:\/\/wpd.ugr.es\/~ireche\/wp-content\/uploads\/cronos-logo-642x300.jpg",642,300,true],"blog-medium":["https:\/\/wpd.ugr.es\/~ireche\/wp-content\/uploads\/cronos-logo-306x205.jpg",306,205,true],"recent-thumb":["https:\/\/wpd.ugr.es\/~ireche\/wp-content\/uploads\/cronos-logo-350x316.jpg",350,316,true],"service-featured":["https:\/\/wpd.ugr.es\/~ireche\/wp-content\/uploads\/cronos-logo-600x330.jpg",600,330,true]},"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"ireche","author_link":"https:\/\/wpd.ugr.es\/~ireche\/?author=1"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"Scientific projects<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"Circadian, seasonal and climatic variability in greenhouse gas emissions in Mediterranean reservoirs: physical and biogeochemical drivers (CRONOS) Inland waters are significant\u00a0sources of greenhouse gases (GHG), including CO2, CH4 and N2O. Globally, eutrophic reservoirs appear to be significant sources of\u00a0CH4, but…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpd.ugr.es\/~ireche\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpd.ugr.es\/~ireche\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpd.ugr.es\/~ireche\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpd.ugr.es\/~ireche\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpd.ugr.es\/~ireche\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wpd.ugr.es\/~ireche\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":784,"href":"https:\/\/wpd.ugr.es\/~ireche\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions\/784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpd.ugr.es\/~ireche\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpd.ugr.es\/~ireche\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpd.ugr.es\/~ireche\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpd.ugr.es\/~ireche\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}