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Articles | Volume 16, issue 9
Articles | Volume 16, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-2003-2019
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-2003-2019
© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 16, issue 9
Research article
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15 May 2019
Research article |  | 15 May 2019

Global NO and HONO emissions of biological soil crusts estimated by a process-based non-vascular vegetation model

Philipp Porada, Alexandra Tamm, Jose Raggio, Yafang Cheng, Axel Kleidon, Ulrich Pöschl, and Bettina Weber

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The trace gases NO and HONO are crucial for atmospheric chemistry. It has been suggested that biological soil crusts in drylands contribute substantially to global NO and HONO emissions, based on empirical upscaling of laboratory and field observations. Here we apply an alternative, process-based modeling approach to predict these emissions. We find that biological soil crusts emit globally significant amounts of NO and HONO, which also vary depending on the type of biological soil crust.
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