Breathing streams: integrating aquatic emissions into carbon budgets

该项目旨在确定澳大利亚热带地区的小溪排放的温室气体量，这是二氧化碳和甲烷排放的潜在热点。该项目希望利用气体示踪实验、遥感技术和机器学习算法的新组合，研究从河流到区域尺度的气体排放控制。预期的结果包括开发气体交换的预测模型和对澳大利亚热带地区气体排放的首次估计。这应该会带来显著的好处，比如减少国家碳预算的不确定性，避免温室气体减排政策的不一致。

This project aims to determine the amount of greenhouse gases emitted by small streams across the Australian tropics, a potential hotspot for emissions of carbon dioxide and methane. The project expects to investigate the controls on gaseous emissions from stream to regional scales using a novel combination of gas tracer experiments, remote sensing techniques and machine learning algorithms. Expected outcomes include the development of a predictive model of gas exchange and the first estimate of gaseous emissions from the Australian tropics. This should provide significant benefits such as reducing uncertainties on the national carbon budget and avoiding misalignment of greenhouse gas abatement policies.