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  • Methane and carbon dioxide fluxes from vegetated and open water zones of lakes in the Peace-Athabasca Delta, Alberta, Canada, 2019
  • Kyzivat, Ethan; Brown University
    Garcia Tigreros, Fenix
    Langhorst, Theodore
    Fayne, Jessica V
    Harlan, Merritt E
    Ishitsuka, Yuta
    Feng, Dongmei
    Wickland, Kimberly P
    Dornblaser, Mark M
    Striegl, Robert G
    Butman, David E
    Gleason, Colin J
  • 2021-11-10
  • Kyzivat, E., F. Garcia Tigreros, T. Langhorst, J.V. Fayne, M.E. Harlan, Y. Ishitsuka, D. Feng, K.P. Wickland, M.M. Dornblaser, R.G. Striegl, D.E. Butman, and C.J. Gleason. 2021. Methane and carbon dioxide fluxes from vegetated and open water zones of lakes in the Peace-Athabasca Delta, Alberta, Canada, 2019 ver 2. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/DOI_PLACE_HOLDER (Accessed 2025-01-01).

  • Shallow areas of lakes, known as littoral zones, emit disproportionately more methane than open water but are sometimes ignored in upscaled estimates of lake greenhouse gas emissions. Littoral zone coverage may be estimated through synthetic aperture radar (SAR) mapping of emergent aquatic vegetation, which only grows in water less than ~1.5 m deep. In an accompanying publication, we combine airborne SAR mapping with field measurements of littoral and open-water methane flux to assess the importance of littoral zones to landscape-scale methane emissions. This dataset contains the field measurements of chamber methane flux from vegetated littoral zones and open water used for the accompanying publication. Measurements come from 24 distinct sampling events of 15 lakes in the Peace-Athabasca Delta, Alberta, Canada in July through August, 2019. The dataset also includes within-lake locations, carbon dioxide measurements, simple characterizations of vegetation type, and associated limnological and meteorological measurements, when available: water and air temperature, water depth, wind speed and direction, and relative humidity.

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