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Nitrous oxide flux from a solid dairy manure pile measured using a micrometeorological mass balance method

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A micrometeorological mass balance technique was used to quantify the N2O flux from a solid dairy manure pile under field conditions. Flux was determined using time-averaged measurements of wind speed, and nitrous oxide concentration using a tunable diode laser trace gas analyzer. A total of 66 hourly flux averages were collected and values were never lower than 200 ng N2O-N m−2 s−1. The mean hourly N2O flux was 4865 ng N2O-N m−2 s−1 (0.42 g N m−2 day−1), which is of the same order of magnitude, albeit higher, as previously observed for a similar solid pig manure storage.

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  1. Department of Land Resource Science, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, N1G 2W1

    H.A. Brown, C. Wagner-Riddle & G.W. Thurtell

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Brown, H., Wagner-Riddle, C. & Thurtell, G. Nitrous oxide flux from a solid dairy manure pile measured using a micrometeorological mass balance method. Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems 62, 53–60 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1015172816650

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