Pedosphere 15(1): 66--71, 2005
ISSN 1002-0160/CN 32-1315/P
©2005 Soil Science Society of China
Published by Elsevier B.V. and Science Press
Estimate of CH4 emissions from year-round flooded rice fields during rice growing season in China
CAI Zu-Cong1, KANG Guo-Ding2, H. TSURUTA3 and A. MOSIER4
1 State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008 (China). E-mail: zccai@issas.ac.cn
2 Department of Demography and Economics, Nanjing College for Population Program Management, Nanjing 210093 (China)
3 Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo (Japan)
4 USDA/ARS, Ft. Collins, CO 80522 (USA)
ABSTRACT
      A special kind of rice field exists in China that is flooded year-round. These rice fields have substantially large CH4 emissions during the rice-growing season and emit CH4 continuously in the non-rice growing season. CH4 emission factors were used to estimate the CH4 emissions from year-round flooded rice fields during the rice-growing season in China. The CH4 emissions for the year-round flooded rice fields in China for the rice growing season over a total area of 2.66 Mha were estimated to be 2.44 Tg CH4 year-1. The uncertainties of these estimations are discussed as well. However, the emissions during the non-rice growing season could not be estimated because of limited available data. Nevertheless, methane emissions from rice fields that were flooded year-round could be several times higher than those from the rice fields drained in the non-rice-growing season. Thus, the classification of "continuously flooded rice fields" in the IPCC (International Panel on Climate Change) Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories is suggested to be revised and divided into "continuously flooded rice fields during the rice growing season" and "year-round flooded rice fields".
Key Words:  IPCC methodology, methane emission, rice fields, year-round flooded
Citation: Cai, Z. C., Kang, G. D., Tsuruta, H. and Mosier, A. 2005. Estimate of CH4 emissions from year-round flooded rice fields during rice growing season in China. Pedosphere. 15(1): 66-71.
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