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Changes of Carbon Isotopes in Atmospheric CO2 of the Kraków Region in the Last Five Years

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Tadeusz Kuc
Tadeusz Kuc*
Affiliation:
Institute of Physics and Nuclear Techniques, The Academy of Mining and Metallurgy, Al Mickiewicza 30, 30–059 Kraków, Poland
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The Krakow Radiocarbon Laboratory has been measuring isotope composition of atmospheric CO2 and its natural concentration in the Kraków region for the last five years. We have been sampling on a continuous basis in two-week intervals at ca 20m above ground level, close to the center of Kraków. CO2 was sorbed while slow pumping atmospheric air through a molecular sieve. After recovery by heating, the CO2 was converted to benzene and 14C measured in a liquid scintillation spectrometer. In a small portion of CO2 δ13C was determined in a mass spectrometer. Concentration of CO2 was assessed by measurement of the volumes of the sorbed CO2 and the pumped air. A five-year record (1983–1987) reveals a multi-annual linear trend and winter-summer oscillations. Calculated parameters of the regression line (intercept and slope) for the measured δ14C, δ13C and concentration are: 222 (Jan 1983) and −15.5/yr, −9.57% (Jan 1983) and −0.042/yr, 336ppm (Jan 1983) and 1.4ppm/yr, respectively.

Type
II. Carbon Cycle in the Environment
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 31 , Issue 3: June 20-25, 1988 Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia , 1989 , pp. 441 - 447
Copyright
Copyright © The American Journal of Science 

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