Technical note: Interferences of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) on methane concentration measurements

Kohl, Lukas; Koskinen, Markku; Rissanen, Kaisa; Haikarainen, Iikka; Polvinen, Tatu; Hellén, Heidi; Pihlatie, Mari

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-3319-2019

Articles | Volume 16, issue 17

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-3319-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-3319-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 16, issue 17

Technical note

|

04 Sep 2019

Technical note |

| 04 Sep 2019

Technical note: Interferences of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) on methane concentration measurements

Lukas Kohl, Markku Koskinen, Kaisa Rissanen, Iikka Haikarainen, Tatu Polvinen, Heidi Hellén, and Mari Pihlatie

Data sets

Technical note: Interferences of volatile organic compounds (VOC) on methane concentration measurements - Raw Data L. Kohl, M. Koskinen, K. Rissanen, I. Haikarainen, T. Polvinen, H. Hellén, and M. Pihlatie https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2597716

Model code and software

Technical note: Interferences of volatile organic compounds (VOC) on methane concentration measurements - Raw Data L. Kohl, M. Koskinen, K. Rissanen, I. Haikarainen, T. Polvinen, H. Hellén, and M. Pihlatie https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2597716

Short summary

Plants emit small amounts of methane and large amounts of volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Measurements of plant methane emissions therefore require analysers that can provide accurate measurements of CH₄ concentrations in the presence of changing amounts of VOCs. We therefore quantified to which degree various VOCs bias methane concentration measurements on different analysers. Our results show that some analysers are more sensitive to the presence of VOCs than others.