Ratio of non-growing season to growing season N2O emissions in Canadian croplands: an update to national inventory methodology

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Pelster, David E.
Thiagarajan, Arumugam
Liang, Chang
Chantigny, Martin H.
Wagner-Riddle, Claudia
Congreves, Kate
Lemke, Reynald
Glenn, Aaron
Tenuta, Mario
Hernandez-Ramirez, Guillermo
Bittman, Shabtai
Hunt, Derek
Owens, Jennifer
MacDonald, Douglas
dc.date.accepted
2022-10-28
dc.date.accessioned
2024-05-08T20:01:49Z
dc.date.available
2024-05-08T20:01:49Z
dc.date.issued
2023-04-05
dc.date.submitted
2022-09-06
dc.description.abstract - en
National inventory reporting of agricultural nitrous oxide (N<sub>2</sub>O) emissions in Canada is based primarily on measurements obtained using static chambers. In regions with cold winters and an accumulated snowpack (including Canada), these measurements tend to focus on the growing season (typically May–October). However, research has shown that emissions continue throughout the non-growing season (NGS) and that these account for a significant proportion of annual emissions. In the Canadian National Inventory NGS emissions currently are assumed to be adequately captured in western Canada, while they are accounted for in eastern Canada by multiplying the growing season emissions by a correction factor of 1.4, a value that was derived based on a limited number of measurements. Here we use recent Canadian studies to validate this correction factor. We collected data from available Canadian studies that measured soil N<sub>2</sub>O emissions from agricultural systems for the entire year and determined the proportion of these emissions that occurred during the NGS. The proportion of annual N<sub>2</sub>O emissions that occurred during the NGS varied widely, ranging from −4% to 119% with a mean of 35.5%, compared to the previous estimate of 30%. Due to high variability, few differences were observed between means associated with climatic, soil, and management variables. To correct for NGS N<sub>2</sub>O emissions from Canadian agricultural soils, we suggest that the current correction factor for converting growing season to total annual emissions be changed from 1.4 to 1.55 and that this be used for all agricultural soils in Canada rather than just eastern Canada.
dc.identifier.doi
https://doi.org/10.1139/cjss-2022-0101
dc.identifier.issn
0008-4271
1918-1841
dc.identifier.uri
https://open-science.canada.ca/handle/123456789/2465
dc.language.iso
en
dc.publisher
Canadian Science Publishing
dc.rights - en
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
dc.rights - fr
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
dc.rights.openaccesslevel - en
Gold
dc.rights.openaccesslevel - fr
Or
dc.rights.uri - en
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.rights.uri - fr
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.fr
dc.subject - en
Air
Agriculture
dc.subject - fr
Air
Agriculture
dc.subject.en - en
Air
Agriculture
dc.subject.fr - fr
Air
Agriculture
dc.title - en
Ratio of non-growing season to growing season N2O emissions in Canadian croplands: an update to national inventory methodology
dc.type - en
Article
dc.type - fr
Article
local.article.journalissue
2
local.article.journaltitle
Canadian Journal of Soil Science
local.article.journalvolume
103
local.pagination
344-352
local.peerreview - en
Yes
local.peerreview - fr
Oui
local.requestdoi
No
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