Yukio Terao

Earth System Division, National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES)

NIES

Email: cgerdb_admin(at)nies.go.jp

Elevation: 1940 m

Sampling height: 7 m above ground

Flask samples were collected from September 2006 in Nainital, India. Inlets were mounted at 7 m above ground level (on the roof of the second floor of the station) in Nainital. Air samples were collected once a week (usually on Wednesdays) at 14:00 LT into a 1.5 L Pyrex flask with two stopcocks sealed with Viton O-rings via a sampling line. The sampling line contained a diaphragm pump and a freezer for dehumidification by a glass trap. The sampling flow rate was approximately 2 L min⁻¹, and the sample was passed through a −30 ℃ cooler and pressurized to 0.25 MPa after 10 min flushing through the sampling tube and flask. The sampled flasks were packed in a cardboard box and transported to the laboratory of the Center for Global Environmental Research (CGER), National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan (NIES) (transportation period: 3–7 d), for analyses.

After the mole fraction analysis, we used the remaining air inside the flask for analysis of δ13C-CO₂ and δ18O-CO₂. The air was introduced into two traps sequentially (−100 and −197 ℃), which trapped H₂O and CO₂, respectively. Finally, CO₂ was sealed in a glass tube. Air δ13C-CO₂ and δ18O-CO₂ were measured by MT-252 using the working standard CO₂ gas which was prepared in our laboratory.

The sample was injected into the analytical system 3 times per one sample, and the working standard gases were analyzed after every 6 samples. Values of δ13C-CO₂ and δ18O-CO₂ were reported against the VPDB scale using working standard gases which were calibrated with the NIES Atmospheric Reference CO₂ for Isotopic Studies (NARCIS).

[GCMD_Platform]

In Situ Land-based Platforms > Ground Stations

[GCMD_Science]

Atmosphere > Atmospheric Chemistry > Carbon and Hydrocarbon Compounds > Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide

[Free keywords]

Nainital, India, Indo-Gangetic Plain, Himalaya, Carbon Isotopic Ratio of Carbon Dioxide, NIES, Flask sampling

[2022/03/01]

Dataset was created. ver.2022.0.

Hitoshi Mukai

Center for Climate Change Adaptation, NIES

Yukio Terao

Earth System Division, NIES

Shohei Nomura^*1, Toshinobu Machida^*1, Motoki Sasakawa^*1, Manish Naja^*2

^*1 Earth System Division, NIES
^*2 Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences, India

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Terao, Y., Nomura, S., Mukai, H., Machida, T., Sasakawa, M., and Naja, M. (2022), Carbon Isotopic Ratio (C13/C12) of Carbon Dioxide at Nainital, India, ver.xxxx.x ^*1, NIES, DOI:10.17595/20220301.013. (Reference date^*2: YYYY/MM/DD)

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