EDI Staging Environment
Agriculture is the primary source of the powerful greenhouse gas (GHG) nitrous oxide (N2O) and an important source of GHG emissions. Due to sampling limitations, N2O measurements have traditionally been sparse; with research studies that often have less than 50 sampled days within a year. Nitrous oxide emissions are highly variable and short-lived peak emission periods may contribute more than 50% to annual emissions. Gap filling around these peaks, if measured at all, can result in poor estimations under the standard practice using linear interpolation. Improved gap filling methods that reflect covariate data will likely reduce uncertainty and improve annual N2O estimates. The Global N2O Database was created to serve as a repository for these datasets as well as become a resource for publicly available data and analytical advances. These datasets have been joined in data sheets that use the same formatting, allowing for easy access and comparison of data sets. We hope that this data availability will lead to improvements in N2O understanding and mitigation.
EDI is a collaboration between the University of New Mexico and the University of Wisconsin – Madison, Center for Limnology:
