The atmosphere system

Wednesday Sep 27

Heather Graven will join us today for two lectures on atmospheric radiocarbon. We will work on problems sets and on the practical labs.

Day schedule

9:00-10:00, The atmosphere system | Heather Graven

10:00-10:30, Coffee break

10:30-11:30, Radiocarbon as fossil-fuel CO2 tracer | Heather Graven

11:30-12:30, Problem set 2 (Keeling plots, isotope mixing) | Susan Trumbore

12:30-13:30, Lunch break

13:30-15:00, Practical lab | Axel Steinhof, Jan Muhr, Valerie Schwab, Susan Trumbore

15:00-15:30, Coffee break

15:30-17:00, Practical lab | Axel Steinhof, Jan Muhr, Valerie Schwab, Susan Trumbore


Lecture slides

The slides from the two lectures from Heather Graven are below:

  • Radiocarbon in the atmosphere
  • Radiocarbon and fossil fuels


Problem set 2

Here is the description and the datasets for solving problem set 2

  • Problem set description
  • Data set on diurnal 14C in excel
  • Isoerror spreadsheet
  • Answers problem set 2


Practical labs

We have today two time blocks for the practical labs. Here is the assignment according to badge colors:

Session 1 from 13:30 to 15:00

  • Accelerator tour lab: Yellow group
  • Gas and soil sampling: Red group
  • Combustion lab: Green group
  • Sample preparation, HPLC and GC prep: Blue group

Session 2 from 15:30 to 17:00

  • Accelerator tour lab: Blue group
  • Gas and soil sampling: Yellow group
  • Combustion lab: Red group
  • Sample preparation, HPLC and GC prep: Green group