Gross CO2 and CH4 emissions from the Nam Ngum and Nam Leuk sub-tropical reservoirs in Lao PDR》.pdfVIP

Science of the Total Environment 409 (2011) 5382–5391 Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Science of the Total Environment journal homepage: www.el sevier.c om/l ocate/ scitotenv Gross CO2 and CH4 emissions from the Nam Ngum and Nam Leuk sub-tropical reservoirs in Lao PDR Vincent Chanudet a,⁎, Stéphane Descloux a, Atle Harby b, Håkon Sundt b, Bjørn Henrik Hansen c, Odd Brakstad c, Dominique Serça d, Frédéric Guerin e, f,g, h a Electricité de France, Hydro Engineering Centre, Risk and Sustainable Development Dpt, Savoie Technolac, F-73373 Le Bourget du Lac, France b SINTEF Energy Research, P.O. box 4760 Sluppen, NO-7465 Trondheim, Norway c SINTEF Materials and Chemistry, P.O. box 4760 Sluppen, NO-7465 Trondheim, Norway d Laboratoire dAérologie, Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées, 14 Av Edouard Belin, F-31400 Toulouse, France e Université de Toulouse; GET; 14 Av Edouard Belin, F-31400 Toulouse, France f CNRS; UMR 5563; GET; F-31400 Toulouse, France g IRD; UR 234; GET; F-31400 Toulouse, France h Departamento de Geoquímica, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Outeiro de São João Batista s/n. Centro, Niterói, RJ, CEP: 24020-141, Brasil a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Gross CO2 and CH4 emissions (degassing and diffusion from the reservoir) and the carbon balance were Received 10 January 2011 assessed in 2009–2010 in two Southeast Asian sub-tropical reservoirs: the Nam Ngum and Nam Leuk Reser- Received in revised form 6 September 2011 voirs (Lao PDR). These two reservoirs are within the same climatic area but differ mainly in age, size, resi- Accep