“When you have a really turbulent stream, it’s going to de-gas a lot faster,” explains Winnick. Also, small, headwater streams receive more CO 2 from groundwater compared to water further downstream, which also impacts how much CO 2 that part of a river will emit. “Aggregating these really steep mountain reaches in with low slope areas just misses a lot of information,” he adds. More @Wikipedia
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