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Precisious Observations of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and Methane Mole Fractions in the Polar Belt of Near-Yenisei Siberia

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The paper presents a new monitoring station DIAMIS for continuous precisious observations of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) mole fractions over the Yenisei Gulf, on the southwestern coast of the Taimyr Peninsula at the edge of the Dikson settlement. Here, we summarize technical details of the instrumental setup, give an overview of calibration and data processing algorithms, describe local environments of the study area, and analyze the seasonal footprint of the measurement station. Based on the observations in September 2018–February 2020, a comparative analysis of the atmospheric CO2 and CH4 annual variations in the polar belt (DIAMIS) and middle-taiga subzone (ZOTTO observatory) of near-Yenisei Siberia is presented.

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  1. Sukachev Institute of Forest, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 660036, Krasnoyarsk, Russia

    A. V. Panov, A. S. Prokushkin, M. A. Korets, A. V. Urban & G. K. Zrazhevskaya

  2. Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, 07745, Jena, Germany

    K. Kubler, M. Heimann & S. Zaehle

  3. Department of Forest Botany, Dendrology and Geobiocenology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Mendel University in Brno, 61300, Brno, Czech Republic

    A. V. Urban

  4. Joint Directorate of Taimyr Nature Reserves, 663305, Norilsk, Russia

    M. G. Bondar’

  5. Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research, University of Helsinki, 00560, Helsinki, Finland

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Translated from Meteorologiya i Gidrologiya, 2022, No. 11, pp. 19-31. https://doi.org/10.52002/0130-2906-2022-11-19-31.

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Panov, A.V., Prokushkin, A.S., Kubler, K. et al. Precisious Observations of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and Methane Mole Fractions in the Polar Belt of Near-Yenisei Siberia. Russ. Meteorol. Hydrol. 47, 829–838 (2022). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1068373922110024

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