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Research article
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Technical note: An inverse method to relate organic carbon reactivity to isotope composition from serial oxidation
Jordon D. Hemingway
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Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 266 Woods Hole Road, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA
Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program in Oceanography and Applied Ocean Science and Engineering, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
present address: Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, 20 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Daniel H. Rothman
Lorenz Center, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Sarah Z. Rosengard
Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 266 Woods Hole Road, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA
Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program in Oceanography and Applied Ocean Science and Engineering, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
present address: Departments of Geography and Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, University of British Columbia, 2207 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
Valier V. Galy
Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 266 Woods Hole Road, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA
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The balance between organic matter (OM) fixation and decay is a major control on atmospheric CO2 concentrations. Understanding the environmental, chemical, and physical mechanisms that control the distribution of OM decay rates is therefore critical for constraining the global carbon cycle. In this manuscript, we derive a method to relate OM reactivity to its isotope composition using a kinetic model and provide a novel framework to discern the controls on OM decay rates.
The balance between organic matter (OM) fixation and decay is a major control on atmospheric CO2...
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