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Articles | Volume 20, issue 3
Articles | Volume 20, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-20-589-2023
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-20-589-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 20, issue 3
Technical note
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06 Feb 2023
Technical note |  | 06 Feb 2023

Technical note: Novel estimates of the leaf relative uptake rate of carbonyl sulfide from optimality theory

Georg Wohlfahrt, Albin Hammerle, Felix M. Spielmann, Florian Kitz, and Chuixiang Yi

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The trace gas carbonyl sulfide (COS), which is taken up by plant leaves in a process very similar to photosynthesis, is thought to be a promising proxy for the gross uptake of carbon dioxide by plants. Here we propose a new framework for estimating a key metric to that end, the so-called leaf relative uptake rate. The values we deduce by applying principles of plant optimality are considerably lower than published values and may help reduce the uncertainty of the global COS budget.
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