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Published May 16, 2022 | Version 1.0
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MOdern River archivEs of Particulate Organic Carbon: MOREPOC

Authors/Creators

  • 1. GEOPS, Université Paris-Saclay-CNRS, 91405 Orsay, France
  • 2. Université de Paris-Cité, Institut de physique du globe de Paris, CNRS, 75005 Paris, France

Description

Modern River Archives of Particulate Organic Carbon (MOREPOC) version 1.0 is a new, open-access, georeferenced, global database, featuring data on POC in suspended particulate matter (SPM) collected at 231 locations across 118 major river systems. This database includes 3,424 SPM data entries, among which 2,943 with POC content, 3,260 with stable carbon isotope (δ13C) values, 2,018 with radiocarbon activity (Δ14C) values, 1,838 with total nitrogen content, and 309 with aluminum-to-silicon mass ratios (Al/Si). The MOREPOC database aims at being used by the Earth System community to build comprehensive and quantitative models for the mobilization, alteration, and fate of terrestrial POC.

The supply of particulate organic carbon (POC) associated with terrigenous solids transported to the ocean by rivers plays a significant role in the global carbon cycle. To advance our understanding of the source, transport, and fate of fluvial POC from regional to global scales, databases of riverine POC are needed, including elemental and isotope composition data from contrasted river basins in terms of geomorphology, lithology, climate, and anthropogenic pressure. MOREPOC will benefit the scientific community carrying out research on riverine POC sources, transport, and fate as well as Earth system modelers. Existing environmental raster global datasets for climate, geomorphology, lithology, tectonics, hydrology, and land use, also offer promising prospects for the use of MOREPOC for identifying the controls on POC fluxes and composition, in particular using advanced statistical analysis or machine learning techniques. Moreover, MOREPOC enables a better understanding of sources, transport, and fate of fluvial POC combined with some existing ocean sediment databases. Future updates of MOREPOC should include new bulk POC parameters as well as data on molecular fractions, thermal labile fractions, or specific components such as black carbon or fossil carbon, which should, in turn, provide additional insight into the alteration of riverine POC from source to sink, an essential feature of the global carbon cycle.

Data description

The MOREPOC database consists of two parts: 1) the master metadata (MOREPOC_v1.0); 2) the summarization of references and methods (MOREPOC_v1.0_RM).

MOREPOC_v1.0 includes one table, avaible as Excel spreadsheet (.xslx), comma-limited table (.csv), and GIS shapefile (compiled in .rar) using WGS84 coordinate system.

  • MOREPOC_v1.0.xlsx
  • MOREPOC_v1.0.csv
  • MOREPOC_v1.0 shapefile.rar

MOREPOC_v1.0_RM only provides one table, avaible as Excel spreadsheet (.xslx), comma-limited table (.csv).

  • MOREPOC_v1.0_RM.xlsx
  • MOREPOC_v1.0_RM.csv

The database structure of MOREPOC is listed in Table.1 to understand all provided parameters, more information can be found in the companion manuscript.

Table. 1 Description of the parameters of the MOREPOC v1.0 database.
Parameter Description MOREPOC column name
River name Name of the major river system riv_na
Sub river name Name of the sampled river/stream bas_na
Continent Name of the continent cont
Sampling site/code Expedition sampling ID code
Sampling date Time (month/day/year) when the SPM sample was collected time_m/d/y
Latitude Decimal latitude using WGS 1984 lat
Longitude Decimal longitude using WGS 1984 lon
Sampling technique Method of SPM sampling type_spm
Size fraction of SPM Reported size fractions analyzed fra_spm
SPM concentration (mg/L) The total dry weight of SPM in mg per liter water column conc_spm
POC concentration (mg/L) The total dry weight of POC in mg per liter water column conc_poc
POC content (%) The total POC content of SPM in wt % per_poc
δ13C (‰) δ13C values of POC (decarbonated) in ‰ d13c_poc
Δ14C (‰) Δ14C values of POC (decarbonated) in ‰ D14c_poc
Fraction modern (Fm) Fraction modern of POC f14c
Radiocarbon ages (year) Radiocarbon ages before present (1950) rca
TN content (%) The total nitrogen content of SPM in wt % per_tn
Corg/N mass ratio Mass ratio of POC to TN in SPM cn_mar
Al/Si mass ratio Mass ratio of Al to Si in SPM as_mar
Reference Full list of citations of the data source ref
Complete reference Complete information for cited references ref_c
Measured carbon isotopes Summarization of 13C or/and 14C measured iso_m
Filter Filter used to obtain SPM filter
Acid The acid type used to remove carbonate in SPM acid
Decarbonization method The method used to remove carbonate in SPM m_acid
Acid concentration The concentration of adopted acid to remove carbonate in SPM conc_acid
Decarbonization temperature The environmental temperature for acid to remove carbonate in SPM temp_acid
Decarbonization duration The reaction time used for acid to remove carbonate in SPM time_acid
Note Additional information for the decarbonization process note

Contributing Data

Please contact Yutian Ke at  yutian.ke@universite-paris-saclay.fr or yutianke@caltech.edu if you are interested in contributing your published or unpublished data to MOREPOC.

Citation

Ke, Y. T., Calmels, D., Bouchez, J., Cécile, Q.: MOdern River archivEs of Particulate Organic Carbon: MOREPOC, Dataset version 1, Zenodo [dataset], https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6541925.

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Funding

Agence Nationale de la Recherche
SEDIMAN - SEDIments in the largest rivers of China: Messengers from geological processes and environmental chANges ANR-15-CE01-0012