Interactive comment on “Technical note: Dimensioning IRGA gas sampling system: laboratory and field experiments” by M. Aubinet et al

Application of a high-throughput laboratory method to assess litter decomposition rates in multiple-species experiments

Laboratory decomposition experiments measuring the mineralization of C from plant residue are increasingly used to test the effects of different litter sources and soil conditions. To date, the most widely used methods are infra-red gas analysis (IRGA) and gas chromatography, which are time-consuming, and relatively expensive and complex to operate. The aim of this study was to devise a simple ...

Soil Carbon Changes: Comparing Flux Monitoring and Mass Balance in a Box Lysimeter Experiment

Direct measures of soil-surface respiration are needed to evaluate belowground biological processes, forest productivity, and ecosystem responses to global change. Although infra-red gas analyzer {IRGA) methods track reference COz flows in lab studies, questions remain for extrapolating I R G A methods to field conditions. We constructed 10 box lysimeters with homogenized mixtures of sandy loam...

Modeling and Control of Gas Turbine Combustor with Dynamic and Adaptive Neural Networks (TECHNICAL NOTE)

How Can a Global Social Support System Hope to Achieve Fairer Competiveness?; Comment on “A Global Social Support System: What the International Community Could Learn From the United States’ National Basketball Association”

Ooms et al sets out some good general principles for a global social support system to improve fairer global competitiveness as a result of redistribution. This commentary sets out to summarize some of the conditions that would need to be satisfied for it to level up gradients in inequality through such a social support system, using the National Basketball Association (NBA) example as a point ...

Reply to comment by Klump et al. on ‘‘Noble gases and stable isotopes in a shallow aquifer in southern Michigan: Implications for noble gas paleotemperature reconstructions for cool climates’’

[1] In their comment, Klump et al. [2006], hereinafter referred to as KBK, make three main points concerning Hall et al. [2005]: (1) that the model of excess air that accounts for fractionation via the mechanism of diffusive loss should have produced significant changes from normal isotopic ratios; (2) the suggestion that the presence of excess He in the gas phase in the unsaturated zone is inc...