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Cheng Y, Dai T, Goto D, Chen L, Si Y, Murakami H, Yoshida M, Zhang P, Cao J, Nakajima T, Shi G. Improved hourly estimate of aerosol optical thickness over Asian land by fusing geostationary satellites Fengyun-4B and Himawari-9. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2024; 923:171541. [PMID: 38453084 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.171541] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2023] [Revised: 02/26/2024] [Accepted: 03/04/2024] [Indexed: 03/09/2024]
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Asian over-land aerosols are complexities due to a mixture of anthropogenic air pollutants and natural dust. The accuracy of the aerosol optical thickness (AOT) retrieved from the satellite is crucial to their application in the aerosol data assimilation system. Fusion of AOTs with high spatiotemporal resolution from next-generation geostationary satellites such as Fengyun-4B (FY-4B) and Himawari-9, provides a new high-quality dataset capturing the aerosol spatiotemporal variability for data assimilation. This study develops a complete fusion algorithm to estimate the optimal AOT over-land in Asia from September 2022 to August 2023 at 10 km × 10 km resolution with high efficiency. The data fusion involves four steps: (1) investigating the spatiotemporal variability of FY-4B AOT within the past 1 h and 12 km radius calculation domain; (2) utilizing the aerosol spatiotemporal variability characteristics to estimate FY-4B pure and hourly merged AOTs; (3) performing bias corrections for FY-4B and Himwari-9 hourly merged AOT for different observation times and seasons considering pixel-level errors for each satellite; (4) fusing the bias-corrected FY-4B and Himawari-9 hourly merged AOT based on maximum-likelihood estimation (MLE) method. Compared to the original FY-4B AOT, validation with AERONET observation confirms that the root mean square error (RMSE) of hourly merged FY-4B AOT decreases by around 40.6 % and the correlation coefficient (CORR) increases by about 27.8 %. Compared to FY-4B and Himawari-9 merged AOT, the fused AOT significantly decreases (increases) RMSE (CORR) by around 24.7 % (7.3 %) and 20.2 % (5.6 %). In addition, fused AOT is double the number of single-sensor merged AOT. Fusion aerosol map accurately describes the spatial and temporal variations in Asian regions controlled by air pollution and dust storms. Further studies are required for other landscapes with different satellite combinations to promote the application in the data assimilation system.
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- Yueming Cheng
- State Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of Meteorological Disasters, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of Meteorological Disasters, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China.
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- National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan
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- National Satellite Meteorological Center (National Centre for Space Weather), Innovation Center for FengYun Meteorological Satellite (FYSIC), Key Laboratory of Radiometric Calibration and Validation for Environmental Satellites/Key Laboratory of Space Weather, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China
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- National Satellite Meteorological Center (National Centre for Space Weather), Innovation Center for FengYun Meteorological Satellite (FYSIC), Key Laboratory of Radiometric Calibration and Validation for Environmental Satellites/Key Laboratory of Space Weather, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China
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- Earth Observation Research Center, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Tsukuba, Japan
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- Remote Sensing Technology Center of Japan, Tsukuba, Japan
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- National Satellite Meteorological Center (National Centre for Space Weather), Innovation Center for FengYun Meteorological Satellite (FYSIC), Key Laboratory of Radiometric Calibration and Validation for Environmental Satellites/Key Laboratory of Space Weather, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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Chen SP, Lu CHS, Davies JE, Ou-Yang CF, Lin NH, Huff AK, Pierce BR, Kondragunta S, Wang JL. Infusing satellite data into aerosol forecast for near real-time episode detection and diagnosis in East Asia. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2023; 856:158797. [PMID: 36116651 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.158797] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2022] [Revised: 09/11/2022] [Accepted: 09/12/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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A near-real-time (NRT) aerosol forecast and diagnostic approach is developed based on the system of Infusing satellite Data into Environmental Applications for East Asia, herein denoted as IDEA-EA. The design incorporates a 0.5-degree Global Forecast System (GFS) and Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) aerosol and cloud retrievals for meteorological and remote sensing inputs. The primary output of IDEA-EA includes aerosol forward and backward air mass trajectory forecasts, migration visualization, and data synthesis purposed for NRT aerosol detection, monitoring, and source tracing in East Asia. Two aerosol episodes of Southeast Asia (SEA) biomass burning and Chinese haze infusion with Gobi dust are illustrated by IDEA-EA to demonstrate its forecast and source tracing capabilities. In the case of SEA biomass burning (late March 2021), forward trajectories of IDEA-EA forecasted air masses with high aerosol optical depth (AOD) from SEA affecting Taiwan. The IDEA-EA forecasts were verified by increased AOD and surface PM2.5 observations at a mountain site. In the case of the Chinese haze (October 30, 2019), backward trajectories from the northern tip of Taiwan traced air masses back to the east coast of mainland China and possibly further to the Gobi Desert. Compared with conventional numerical model simulations, the combination of the state-of-the-art aerosol remote sensing and trajectory modeling in IDEA-EA provides a cost-effective alternative for air quality management.
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- Sheng-Po Chen
- Center for Environmental Monitoring and Technology, National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan; Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, NY, USA.
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- Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, NY, USA; Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Space Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Atmospheric Sciences, National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
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- Center for Environmental Monitoring and Technology, National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan; Department of Atmospheric Sciences, National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
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- I.M. Systems Group, College Park, MD, USA
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- Space Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
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- National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, NOAA, USA
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- Center for Environmental Monitoring and Technology, National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan; Department of Chemistry, National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
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Karthik V, Vijay Bhaskar B, Ramachandran S, Gertler AW. Quantification of organic carbon and black carbon emissions, distribution, and carbon variation in diverse vegetative ecosystems across India. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2022; 309:119790. [PMID: 35850316 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2022.119790] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2022] [Revised: 07/11/2022] [Accepted: 07/12/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Black Carbon (BC) and Organic Carbon (OC) are the principal chemical aerosol components generated during combustion, both of which play a key role in air pollution, human health and climate change. Several studies of OC and BC have been conducted over India to assess the contribution from household and fossil fuel-based sources; however, studies on their emissions and their contribution from forest and cropland fires are quite limited. To address this issue, as part of this research, we derived a vegetation burning-based inventory of BC and OC aerosols over India at a resolution of 250 m × 250 m. Using a consumed biomass technique, we estimated emissions based on updated emission factor estimates. During the fire season in India (March-June), the mean OC and BC emissions were 2.1 ± 5.2 × 1013 kg per year and 1.8 ± 4.4 × 1012 kg per year, respectively. Andhra Pradesh had the highest total carbonaceous aerosol emissions during the study period. Forest fires were prevalent in the northeastern states, while agricultural fires were prevalent in Gujarat, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, and Andhra Pradesh. The previous inventory, conducted at a coarser resolution (25 km × 25 km), overestimated open burning by 5 Mt. Our results were highly correlated with global bottom-up model values, especially the Fire Inventory (FINN). Our analysis showed that vegetative burning contributed 80.32% of the total carbon stock, with agricultural burning being the largest source of vegetative burning. Based on these findings, measures and strategies to control agricultural burning which would reduce significantly the total emissions of BC and OC with implications to improvement in air quality, human health and climate should be planned.
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- V Karthik
- Department of Bioenergy, School of Energy, Environment and Natural Resources, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, 625021, India
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- Department of Bioenergy, School of Energy, Environment and Natural Resources, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, 625021, India.
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- Space and Atmospheric Sciences Division, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, 380009, India
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- Division of Atmospheric Sciences, Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, 89512, USA; Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY, 11201, USA
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Ding K, Huang X, Ding A, Wang M, Su H, Kerminen VM, Petäjä T, Tan Z, Wang Z, Zhou D, Sun J, Liao H, Wang H, Carslaw K, Wood R, Zuidema P, Rosenfeld D, Kulmala M, Fu C, Pöschl U, Cheng Y, Andreae MO. Aerosol-boundary-layer-monsoon interactions amplify semi-direct effect of biomass smoke on low cloud formation in Southeast Asia. Nat Commun 2021; 12:6416. [PMID: 34741045 PMCID: PMC8571318 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-26728-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2020] [Accepted: 10/13/2021] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Low clouds play a key role in the Earth-atmosphere energy balance and influence agricultural production and solar-power generation. Smoke aloft has been found to enhance marine stratocumulus through aerosol-cloud interactions, but its role in regions with strong human activities and complex monsoon circulation remains unclear. Here we show that biomass burning aerosols aloft strongly increase the low cloud coverage over both land and ocean in subtropical southeastern Asia. The degree of this enhancement and its spatial extent are comparable to that in the Southeast Atlantic, even though the total biomass burning emissions in Southeast Asia are only one-fifth of those in Southern Africa. We find that a synergetic effect of aerosol-cloud-boundary layer interaction with the monsoon is the main reason for the strong semi-direct effect and enhanced low cloud formation in southeastern Asia.
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- Ke Ding
- Joint International Research Laboratory of Atmospheric and Earth System Sciences, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China
- Jiangsu Provincial Collaborative Innovation Center of Climate Change, Nanjing, China
- Frontiers Science Center for Critical Earth Material Cycling, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China
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- Joint International Research Laboratory of Atmospheric and Earth System Sciences, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China
- Jiangsu Provincial Collaborative Innovation Center of Climate Change, Nanjing, China
- Frontiers Science Center for Critical Earth Material Cycling, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China
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- Joint International Research Laboratory of Atmospheric and Earth System Sciences, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China.
- Jiangsu Provincial Collaborative Innovation Center of Climate Change, Nanjing, China.
- Frontiers Science Center for Critical Earth Material Cycling, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China.
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- Joint International Research Laboratory of Atmospheric and Earth System Sciences, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China
- Jiangsu Provincial Collaborative Innovation Center of Climate Change, Nanjing, China
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- Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany
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- Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research (INAR)/Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Joint International Research Laboratory of Atmospheric and Earth System Sciences, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China
- Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research (INAR)/Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Joint International Research Laboratory of Atmospheric and Earth System Sciences, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China
- Jiangsu Provincial Collaborative Innovation Center of Climate Change, Nanjing, China
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- Joint International Research Laboratory of Atmospheric and Earth System Sciences, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China
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- Joint International Research Laboratory of Atmospheric and Earth System Sciences, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China
- Jiangsu Provincial Collaborative Innovation Center of Climate Change, Nanjing, China
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- Joint International Research Laboratory of Atmospheric and Earth System Sciences, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China
- Jiangsu Provincial Collaborative Innovation Center of Climate Change, Nanjing, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Environment Monitoring and Pollution Control, Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Atmospheric Environment and Equipment Technology, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing, 210044, China
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- School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University of Information and Science Technology, Nanjing, 210044, China
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- Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
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- Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
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- Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA
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- Joint International Research Laboratory of Atmospheric and Earth System Sciences, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China
- Institute of Earth Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 91904, Israel
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- Joint International Research Laboratory of Atmospheric and Earth System Sciences, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China
- Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research (INAR)/Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Joint International Research Laboratory of Atmospheric and Earth System Sciences, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China
- Jiangsu Provincial Collaborative Innovation Center of Climate Change, Nanjing, China
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- Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany.
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- Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany
- Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
- Department of Geology and Geophysics, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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Xue L, Ding A, Cooper O, Huang X, Wang W, Zhou D, Wu Z, McClure-Begley A, Petropavlovskikh I, Andreae MO, Fu C. ENSO and Southeast Asian biomass burning modulate subtropical trans-Pacific ozone transport. Natl Sci Rev 2021; 8:nwaa132. [PMID: 34691654 PMCID: PMC8288171 DOI: 10.1093/nsr/nwaa132] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2020] [Revised: 06/04/2020] [Accepted: 06/10/2020] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Trans-Pacific transport of enhanced ozone plumes has been mainly attributed to fossil fuel combustion in Asia in spring, but less attention has been paid to vegetation fires in Asia. Here we show that the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO)-modulated fires in Southeast Asia, rather than Asian fossil fuel plumes, dominate the interannual variability of springtime trans-Pacific transport of ozone across the entire North Pacific Ocean. During El Niño springs, the intensified fires from both the Indochinese Peninsula and Indonesia, together with large-scale circulation anomalies, result in enhanced ozone plumes that stretch over 15 000 km in both the lower-middle and upper troposphere. This enhancement is also observed in the in situ measurements of ozone concentration, with an almost 10% increase at Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaii, a unique site to monitor the long-distance transport over the North Pacific. This study reports an unexpectedly strong influence of vegetation fires, linked with climate variability, on global tropospheric chemistry and proves once more how complex the interactions in the climate system are.
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- Lian Xue
- Joint International Research Laboratory of Atmospheric and Earth System Sciences, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
- Jiangsu Provincial Collaborative Innovation Center for Climate Change, Nanjing 210023, China
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- Joint International Research Laboratory of Atmospheric and Earth System Sciences, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
- Jiangsu Provincial Collaborative Innovation Center for Climate Change, Nanjing 210023, China
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- Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80305, USA
- Chemical Sciences Division, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO 80305, USA
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- Joint International Research Laboratory of Atmospheric and Earth System Sciences, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
- Jiangsu Provincial Collaborative Innovation Center for Climate Change, Nanjing 210023, China
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- Joint International Research Laboratory of Atmospheric and Earth System Sciences, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
- Jiangsu Provincial Collaborative Innovation Center for Climate Change, Nanjing 210023, China
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- Joint International Research Laboratory of Atmospheric and Earth System Sciences, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
- Jiangsu Provincial Collaborative Innovation Center for Climate Change, Nanjing 210023, China
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- Joint International Research Laboratory of Atmospheric and Earth System Sciences, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
- Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA
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- Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80305, USA
- Global Monitoring Division, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO 80305, USA
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- Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80305, USA
- Global Monitoring Division, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO 80305, USA
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- Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz 55128, Germany
- Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Joint International Research Laboratory of Atmospheric and Earth System Sciences, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
- Jiangsu Provincial Collaborative Innovation Center for Climate Change, Nanjing 210023, China
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Zaveri RA, Easter RC, Singh B, Wang H, Lu Z, Tilmes S, Emmons LK, Vitt F, Zhang R, Liu X, Ghan SJ, Rasch PJ. Development and Evaluation of Chemistry-Aerosol-Climate Model CAM5-Chem-MAM7-MOSAIC: Global Atmospheric Distribution and Radiative Effects of Nitrate Aerosol. JOURNAL OF ADVANCES IN MODELING EARTH SYSTEMS 2021; 13:e2020MS002346. [PMID: 34221239 PMCID: PMC8243931 DOI: 10.1029/2020ms002346] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2020] [Revised: 03/24/2021] [Accepted: 03/26/2021] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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An advanced aerosol treatment, with a focus on semivolatile nitrate formation, is introduced into the Community Atmosphere Model version 5 with interactive chemistry (CAM5-chem) by coupling the Model for Simulating Aerosol Interactions and Chemistry (MOSAIC) with the 7-mode Modal Aerosol Module (MAM7). An important feature of MOSAIC is dynamic partitioning of all condensable gases to the different fine and coarse mode aerosols, as governed by mode-resolved thermodynamics and heterogeneous chemical reactions. Applied in the free-running mode from 1995 to 2005 with prescribed historical climatological conditions, the model simulates global distributions of sulfate, nitrate, and ammonium in good agreement with observations and previous studies. Inclusion of nitrate resulted in ∼10% higher global average accumulation mode number concentrations, indicating enhanced growth of Aitken mode aerosols from nitrate formation. While the simulated accumulation mode nitrate burdens are high over the anthropogenic source regions, the sea-salt and dust modes respectively constitute about 74% and 17% of the annual global average nitrate burden. Regional clear-sky shortwave radiative cooling of up to -5 W m-2 due to nitrate is seen, with a much smaller global average cooling of -0.05 W m-2. Significant enhancements in regional cloud condensation nuclei (at 0.1% supersaturation) and cloud droplet number concentrations are also attributed to nitrate, causing an additional global average shortwave cooling of -0.8 W m-2. Taking into consideration of changes in both longwave and shortwave radiation under all-sky conditions, the net change in the top of the atmosphere radiative fluxes induced by including nitrate aerosol is -0.7 W m-2.
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- Rahul A. Zaveri
- Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change DivisionPacific Northwest National LaboratoryRichlandWAUSA
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- Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change DivisionPacific Northwest National LaboratoryRichlandWAUSA
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- Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change DivisionPacific Northwest National LaboratoryRichlandWAUSA
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- Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change DivisionPacific Northwest National LaboratoryRichlandWAUSA
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- Department of Atmospheric SciencesTexas A&M UniversityCollege StationTXUSA
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- Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling LaboratoryNational Center for Atmospheric ResearchBoulderCOUSA
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- Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling LaboratoryNational Center for Atmospheric ResearchBoulderCOUSA
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- Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling LaboratoryNational Center for Atmospheric ResearchBoulderCOUSA
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- Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change DivisionPacific Northwest National LaboratoryRichlandWAUSA
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- Department of Atmospheric SciencesTexas A&M UniversityCollege StationTXUSA
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- Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change DivisionPacific Northwest National LaboratoryRichlandWAUSA
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- Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change DivisionPacific Northwest National LaboratoryRichlandWAUSA
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Zhu JJ, Chen YC, Shie RH, Liu ZS, Hsu CY. Predicting carbonaceous aerosols and identifying their source contribution with advanced approaches. CHEMOSPHERE 2021; 266:128966. [PMID: 33243573 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.128966] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2020] [Revised: 11/10/2020] [Accepted: 11/11/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Organic carbon (OC) and elemental carbon (EC) play important roles in various atmospheric processes and health effects. Predicting carbonaceous aerosols and identifying source contributions are important steps for further epidemiological study and formulating effective emission control policies. However, we are not aware of any study that examined predictions of OC and EC, and this work is also the first study that attempted to use machine learning and hyperparameter optimization method to predict concentrations of specific aerosol contaminants. This paper describes an investigation of the characteristics and sources of OC and EC in fine particulate matter (PM2.5) from 2005 to 2010 in the City of Taipei. Respective hourly average concentrations of OC and EC were 5.2 μg/m3 and 1.6 μg/m3. We observed obvious seasonal variation in OC but not in EC. Hourly and daily OC and EC concentrations were predicted using generalized additive model and grey wolf optimized multilayer perceptron model, which could explain up to about 80% of the total variation. Subsequent clustering suggests that traffic emission was the major contribution to OC, accounting for about 80% in the spring, 65% in the summer, and 90% in the fall and winter. In the Taipei area, local emissions were the dominant sources of OC and EC in all seasons, and long-range transport had a significant contribution to OC and in PM2.5 in spring.
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- Jun-Jie Zhu
- Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, 60616-3793, USA; Current Affiliation: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 08544, USA
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- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Health Research Institute, 35 Keyan Road, Zhunan Town, Miaoli, 35053, Taiwan; Department of Occupational Safety and Health, China Medical University, 91 Hsueh-Shih Road, Taichung, 40402, Taiwan
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- Green Energy and Environment Research Laboratories, Industrial Technology Research Institute, 321Guangfu Road, East District, Hsinchu City, 30011, Taiwan
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- Department of Safety, Health and Environmental Engineering, Ming Chi University of Technology, 84 Gungjuan Rd., Taishan Dist., New Taipei City, 24301, Taiwan; Center for Environmental Sustainability and Human Health, Ming Chi University of Technology, 84 Gungjuan Rd., Taishan Dist., New Taipei City, 24301, Taiwan; Chronic Diseases and Health Promotion Research Center, Chang Gung University of Science and Technology, Puzi, Chiayi, 61363, Taiwan
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- Department of Safety, Health and Environmental Engineering, Ming Chi University of Technology, 84 Gungjuan Rd., Taishan Dist., New Taipei City, 24301, Taiwan; Center for Environmental Sustainability and Human Health, Ming Chi University of Technology, 84 Gungjuan Rd., Taishan Dist., New Taipei City, 24301, Taiwan.
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Li Q, Badia A, Fernandez RP, Mahajan AS, López‐Noreña AI, Zhang Y, Wang S, Puliafito E, Cuevas CA, Saiz‐Lopez A. Chemical Interactions Between Ship-Originated Air Pollutants and Ocean-Emitted Halogens. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH. ATMOSPHERES : JGR 2021; 126:e2020JD034175. [PMID: 33816042 PMCID: PMC8008258 DOI: 10.1029/2020jd034175] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2020] [Revised: 12/09/2020] [Accepted: 12/27/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Ocean-going ships supply products from one region to another and contribute to the world's economy. Ship exhaust contains many air pollutants and results in significant changes in marine atmospheric composition. The role of reactive halogen species (RHS) in the troposphere has received increasing recognition and oceans are the largest contributors to their atmospheric burden. However, the impact of shipping emissions on RHS and that of RHS on ship-originated air pollutants have not been studied in detail. Here, an updated Weather Research Forecasting coupled with Chemistry model is utilized to explore the chemical interactions between ship emissions and oceanic RHS over the East Asia seas in summer. The emissions and resulting chemical transformations from shipping activities increase the level of NO and NO2 at the surface, increase O3 in the South China Sea, but decrease O3 in the East China Sea. Such changes in pollutants result in remarkable changes in the levels of RHS (>200% increase of chlorine; ∼30% and ∼5% decrease of bromine and iodine, respectively) as well as in their partitioning. The abundant RHS, in turn, reshape the loadings of air pollutants (∼20% decrease of NO and NO2; ∼15% decrease of O3) and those of the oxidants (>10% reduction of OH and HO2; ∼40% decrease of NO3) with marked patterns along the ship tracks. We, therefore, suggest that these important chemical interactions of ship-originated emissions with RHS should be considered in the environmental policy assessments of the role of shipping emissions in air quality and climate.
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- Qinyi Li
- Department of Atmospheric Chemistry and ClimateInstitute of Physical Chemistry RocasolanoCSICMadridSpain
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- Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA)Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)BarcelonaSpain
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- Department of Atmospheric Chemistry and ClimateInstitute of Physical Chemistry RocasolanoCSICMadridSpain
- Institute for Interdisciplinary Science (ICB)National Research Council (CONICET)FCEN‐UNCuyoMendozaArgentina
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- Centre for Climate Change ResearchIndian Institute of Tropical MeteorologyPuneIndia
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- Atmospheric and Environmental Studies Group (GEAA)National Technological University (UTN‐FRM)CONICETMendozaArgentina
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- Department of Environmental Science and EngineeringShanghai Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Particle Pollution and PreventionFudan UniversityShanghaiChina
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- Department of Environmental Science and EngineeringShanghai Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Particle Pollution and PreventionFudan UniversityShanghaiChina
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- Atmospheric and Environmental Studies Group (GEAA)National Technological University (UTN‐FRM)CONICETMendozaArgentina
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- Department of Atmospheric Chemistry and ClimateInstitute of Physical Chemistry RocasolanoCSICMadridSpain
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- Department of Atmospheric Chemistry and ClimateInstitute of Physical Chemistry RocasolanoCSICMadridSpain
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Xu R, Tie X, Li G, Zhao S, Cao J, Feng T, Long X. Effect of biomass burning on black carbon (BC) in South Asia and Tibetan Plateau: The analysis of WRF-Chem modeling. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2018; 645:901-912. [PMID: 30032086 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.07.165] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2018] [Revised: 07/10/2018] [Accepted: 07/13/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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The focus of this study is to evaluate the impact of biomass burning (BB) from South Asia and Southeast Asia on the glaciers over the Tibetan Plateau. The seasonality and long-term trend of biomass fires measured by Terra and Aqua satellite data from 2010 to 2016 are used in this study. The analysis shows that the biomass burnings were widely dispersed in the continental of Indian and Southeast Asia and existed a strong seasonal variation. The biomass burnings in winter (January) were relatively weak and scattered and were significantly enhanced in spring (April). The highest biomass burnings located in two regions. One was along the foothill of Himalayas, where is a dense population area, and the second located in Southeast Asia. Because these two high biomass burning regions are close to the Tibetan Plateau, they could have important effects on the BC deposition over the glaciers of the Tibetan Plateau. In order to study the effect of BB emissions on the deposition over the glaciers in the Tibetan Plateau, a regional chemical model (WRF-Chem; Weather Research and Forecasting Chemical model) was applied to simulate the BC distributions and the transport from BB emission regions to the glaciers in Tibetan Plateau. The result shows that in winter (January), due to the relatively weak BB emissions, the effect of BB emissions on BC concentrations was not significant. The BC concentrations resulted from BB emissions ranged from 0.1 to 2.0 μg/m3, with high concentrations distributed along the foothill of Himalayas and the southeastern Asia region. Due to the relative low BC concentrations, there was insignificant effect of BB emissions on the deposition over the glaciers in the Tibetan Plateau in winter. However, the BB emissions were highest in spring (April), producing high BC concentrations. For example, along the Himalayas Mountain and in the southeastern Asia region, The BC concentrations ranged from 2.0 to 6.0 μg/m3. In addition to the high BC concentrations, there were also west and south prevailing winds in these regions. As a result, the BC particles were transported to the glaciers in the Tibetan Plateau, causing significant deposition of BC particles on the snow surface of the glaciers. This study suggests that the biomass burning emissions have important effects on the BC deposition over the glaciers in the Tibetan Plateau, and the contaminations of glaciers could have significant impact on the melting of snow in the Tibetan Plateau, causing some severe environmental problems, such as the water resources.
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- Ruiguang Xu
- State Kay Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an 710061, China; College of Energy and Environmental Engineering, Hebei University of Engineering, Handan 056038, China; Postdoctoral Research Station of Xi'an Chan-Ba Ecological District(CBE) Management Committee, Xi'an 710024, China
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- State Kay Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an 710061, China; Center for Excellence in Urban Atmospheric Environment, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, China; National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, CO 80303, USA.
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- State Kay Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an 710061, China
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- State Kay Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an 710061, China
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- State Kay Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an 710061, China
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- State Kay Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an 710061, China
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- State Kay Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an 710061, China
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Laskar AH, Lin L, Jiang X, Liang M. Distribution of CO 2 in Western Pacific, Studied Using Isotope Data Made in Taiwan, OCO-2 Satellite Retrievals, and CarbonTracker Products. EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE (HOBOKEN, N.J.) 2018; 5:827-842. [PMID: 30775410 PMCID: PMC6360507 DOI: 10.1029/2018ea000415] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2018] [Revised: 10/12/2018] [Accepted: 10/20/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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To assess sources and processes that affect the variability of CO2 at local to regional scales, we have analyzed the mixing ratio [CO2] and stable isotopic compositions (δ13C and δ18O) of atmospheric CO2 for three years (2014-2016) in urban and sub-urban areas in Taipei, Taiwan. The data are compared with those from some background sites, viz., Lulin, Mauna Loa, and Minamitorishima, to evaluate how local emissions affect CO2 level regionally. [CO2] over the urban and sub-urban stations are significantly higher than that observed at the three aforementioned remote sites mainly due to local emissions, which partly mask the seasonal cycle caused by photosynthesis and respiration. Likewise, significantly low δ13C and δ18O values observed at two Taipei stations also point to anthropogenic emissions. The seasonal cycles in [CO2] and in the isotopic compositions are retrieved using the ensemble empirical mode decomposition method. Regional impact is assessed using CO2 products from the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 satellite, the NOAA/EARL CarbonTracker project, and meteorological data from European Centre for Medium range Weather Forecast-Interim. We found that besides local emissions, Taiwan is largely affected by external CO2 in winter and spring originated from north, west and southwest landmasses. In winter air masses with elevated CO2 concentrations, originated in eastern China influence Taipei. In spring season, about 2 ppmv enhancement in CO2 observed at the top of Lulin, a high mountain station (2.8 km), could be linked to CO2 produced by biomass burning in the southeast Asian countries and transported to the region by easterly winds.
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- Amzad H. Laskar
- Research Center for Environmental Changes, Academia SinicaTaipeiTaiwan
- Now at Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research UtrechtUtrecht UniversityUtrechtNetherlands
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- Research Center for Environmental Changes, Academia SinicaTaipeiTaiwan
- Now at Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia SinicaTaipeiTaiwan
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- Department of Earth and Atmospheric SciencesUniversity of HoustonHoustonTXUSA
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- Research Center for Environmental Changes, Academia SinicaTaipeiTaiwan
- Now at Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia SinicaTaipeiTaiwan
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Dong X, Fu JS, Huang K, Lin NH, Wang SH, Yang CE. Analysis of the Co-existence of Long-range Transport Biomass Burning and Dust in the Subtropical West Pacific Region. Sci Rep 2018; 8:8962. [PMID: 29895886 PMCID: PMC5997683 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-27129-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2018] [Accepted: 05/18/2018] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Biomass burning and wind-blown dust has been well investigated during the past decade regarding their impacts on environment, but their co-existence hasn't been recognized because they usually occur in different locations and episodes. In this study we reveal the unique co-existence condition that dust from the Taklamakan and Gobi Desert (TGD) and biomass burning from Peninsular Southeast Asia (PSEA) can reach to the west Pacific region simultaneously in boreal spring (March and April). The upper level trough at 700hPa along east coast of China favors the large scale subsidence of TGD dust while it travels southeastwards, and drives the PSEA biomass burning plume carried by the westerlies at 3-5 km to descend rapidly to around 1.5 km and mix with dust around southeast China and Taiwan. As compared to the monthly averages in March and April, surface observations suggested that concentrations of PM10, PM2.5, O3, and CO were 69%, 37%, 20%, and 18% higher respectively during the 10 identified co-existence events which usually lasted for 2-3 days. Co-existence also lowers the surface O3, NOx, and SO2 by 4-5% due to the heterogeneous chemistry between biomass burning and mineral dust as indicated by model simulations.
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- Xinyi Dong
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 37996, USA
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 37996, USA.
- Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, 37831, USA.
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 37996, USA
- Center for Atmospheric Chemistry Study, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433, China
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- Department of Atmospheric Sciences, National Central University, Chung-Li, 32056, Taiwan
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- Department of Atmospheric Sciences, National Central University, Chung-Li, 32056, Taiwan
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 37996, USA
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Li TY, Deng XJ, Li Y, Song YS, Li LY, Tan HB, Wang CL. Transport paths and vertical exchange characteristics of haze pollution in Southern China. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2018; 625:1074-1087. [PMID: 29996404 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.12.235] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2017] [Revised: 12/03/2017] [Accepted: 12/20/2017] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Transport paths and vertical exchange characteristics are important factors for understanding the long-term transport, dispersion capability for haze prediction. Many previous studies revealed that the Pearl River Delta (PRD) region, one of the major polluted areas in China, is largely affected by the long-range pollution transport. However, mostly of these studies focused on the source apportionment or horizontal transport path of pollutants by using short-term data, and the vertical exchange characteristics had been rarely analyzed. In this study, using HYSPLIT model, the transport paths and the vertical exchange characteristics of haze episodes over four sub-region of Guangdong (GD) Province in southern China of dry season and wet season were analyzed by using 10years data from 2005 to 2014. Three major transport paths can be statistically summarized based on the long-term data. The haze episodes in PRD and North-GD were distinguished by the characteristics of high frequency and long duration, while the West-GD and East-GD are relatively clean. The haze over North-GD and PRD were mainly influenced by the airflows from northern path, which could bring the pollution from Jiangxi, Anhui, and also influenced by the airflows from coastal path, which could bring the pollution of eastern coastal from Zhejiang and Fujian to Guangdong, while regional transport contributions from Guangdong province and adjacent areas can also be clearly observed. The haze pollution from the identified two major transport paths were mainly transported within the mixing layer (>80% trajectories, <500m), whereas the probability of haze trajectories across mixing layer was relatively low and generally associated with much longer transport distance and higher terrain height over Western China. Combing the vertical exchange analysis, results also show that Wuyi Mountains and Nanling Mountains played a role as barrier to obstruct the haze airflows from other regions of China to the Guangdong province.
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- T Y Li
- Guangdong Ecological Meteorological Center, Guangzhou, China
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- Institute of Tropical and Marine Meteorology/Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Regional Numerical Weather Prediction, China Meteorological Administration, Guangzhou, China.
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- Ocean Department of Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China.
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- Ocean Department of Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
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- Panyu Meteorological Service, Guangzhou, China
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- Guangdong Ecological Meteorological Center, Guangzhou, China
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- Guangzhou Climate and Agrometeorology Center, Guangzhou, China
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Gbaguidi AE, Wang Z, Wang W, Yang T, Chen HS. Source tagging modeling study of regional contributions to acid rain in summer over Liaoning Province, Northeastern China. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2018; 235:780-790. [PMID: 29353797 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2017.12.076] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2017] [Revised: 12/10/2017] [Accepted: 12/21/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Strong acid rain was recently observed over Northeastern China, particularly in summer in Liaoning Province where alkaline dust largely neutralized acids in the past. This seems to be related to the regional transboundary pollution and poses new challenges in acid rain control scheme in China. In order to delve into the regional transport impact, and quantify its potential contributions to such an "eruption" of acid rain over Liaoning, this paper employs an online source tagging model in coupling with the Nested Air Quality Prediction Modeling System (NAQPMS). Validation of predictions shows the model capability in reproducing key meteorological and chemical features. Acid concentration over Liaoning is more pronounced in August (average of 0.087 mg/m3) with strong pollutant import from regional sources against significant depletion of basic species. Seasonal mean contributions from regional sources are assessed at both lower and upper boundary layers to elucidate the main pathways of the impact of regional sources on acid concentration over Liaoning. At the upper layer (1.2 km), regional sources contribute to acid concentration over Liaoning by 67%, mainly from Shandong (16%), Hebei (13%), Tianjin (11%) and Korean Peninsula (9%). Identified main city-receptors in Liaoning are Dandong, Dalian, Chaohu, Yingkou, Liaoyang, Jinfu, Shengyang, Panjin, Tieling, Benxi, Anshan and Fushun. At lower layer (120 m) where Liaoning local contribution is dominant (58%), regional sources account for 39% in acid concentration. However, inter-municipal acid exchanges are prominent at this layer and many cities in Liaoning are revealed as important sources of local acid production. Seasonal acid contribution average within 1.2 km-120 m attains 55%, suggesting dominance of vertical pollutant transport from regional sources towards lower boundary layer in Liaoning. As direct environmental implication, this study provides policy makers with a perspective of regulating the regional transboundary environmental impact assessment in China with application to acid rain control.
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- Alex E Gbaguidi
- Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, 100029, China.
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- Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, 100029, China
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- Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, 100029, China
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- Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, 100029, China
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- Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, 100029, China
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Karl T, Graus M, Striednig M, Lamprecht C, Hammerle A, Wohlfahrt G, Held A, von der Heyden L, Deventer MJ, Krismer A, Haun C, Feichter R, Lee J. Urban eddy covariance measurements reveal significant missing NO x emissions in Central Europe. Sci Rep 2017; 7:2536. [PMID: 28559587 PMCID: PMC5449400 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-02699-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2016] [Accepted: 04/19/2017] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Nitrogen oxide (NOx) pollution is emerging as a primary environmental concern across Europe. While some large European metropolitan areas are already in breach of EU safety limits for NO2, this phenomenon does not seem to be only restricted to large industrialized areas anymore. Many smaller scale populated agglomerations including their surrounding rural areas are seeing frequent NO2 concentration violations. The question of a quantitative understanding of different NOx emission sources is therefore of immanent relevance for climate and air chemistry models as well as air pollution management and health. Here we report simultaneous eddy covariance flux measurements of NOx, CO2, CO and non methane volatile organic compound tracers in a city that might be considered representative for Central Europe and the greater Alpine region. Our data show that NOx fluxes are largely at variance with modelled emission projections, suggesting an appreciable underestimation of the traffic related atmospheric NOx input in Europe, comparable to the weekend-weekday effect, which locally changes ozone production rates by 40%.
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- T Karl
- Institute of Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.
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- Institute of Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institute of Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institute of Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institute of Ecology, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institute of Ecology, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Atmospheric Chemistry, University of Bayreuth, Innsbruck, Germany
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- Atmospheric Chemistry, University of Bayreuth, Innsbruck, Germany
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- Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley, USA
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- Abteilung Waldschutz, Amt der Tiroler Landesregierung, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Abteilung Geoinformation, Amt der Tiroler Landesregierung, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Amt für Verkehrsplanung, Umwelt, Magistrat III Stadt Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- National Centre for Atmospheric Science and Department of Chemistry, University of York, York, UK
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Fu H, Chen J. Formation, features and controlling strategies of severe haze-fog pollutions in China. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2017; 578:121-138. [PMID: 27836344 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.10.201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2016] [Revised: 10/05/2016] [Accepted: 10/26/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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With rapid industrialization and urbanization, China is facing a great challenge with regard to severe fog-haze pollutions, which were characterized by high fine particulate concentration level and visibility impairment. The control strategies for atmosphere pollutions in China were not only cutting-edge topics of atmospheric research, but also an urgent issue to be addressed by the Chinese government and the public. Focused on the core scientific issues of the haze and fog pollution, this paper reviews the main studies conducted in China, especially after 2010, including formation mechanisms, evolution features, and factors contributing to the fog-haze pollutions. Present policy and control strategies were synoptically discussed. The major challenges ahead will be stated and recommendations for future research directions are proposed at the end of this Review.
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- Hongbo Fu
- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Particle Pollution and Prevention, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Particle Pollution and Prevention, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China.
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Chen J, Li C, Ristovski Z, Milic A, Gu Y, Islam MS, Wang S, Hao J, Zhang H, He C, Guo H, Fu H, Miljevic B, Morawska L, Thai P, Lam YF, Pereira G, Ding A, Huang X, Dumka UC. A review of biomass burning: Emissions and impacts on air quality, health and climate in China. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2017; 579:1000-1034. [PMID: 27908624 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.11.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 342] [Impact Index Per Article: 48.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2016] [Revised: 11/04/2016] [Accepted: 11/04/2016] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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Biomass burning (BB) is a significant air pollution source, with global, regional and local impacts on air quality, public health and climate. Worldwide an extensive range of studies has been conducted on almost all the aspects of BB, including its specific types, on quantification of emissions and on assessing its various impacts. China is one of the countries where the significance of BB has been recognized, and a lot of research efforts devoted to investigate it, however, so far no systematic reviews were conducted to synthesize the information which has been emerging. Therefore the aim of this work was to comprehensively review most of the studies published on this topic in China, including literature concerning field measurements, laboratory studies and the impacts of BB indoors and outdoors in China. In addition, this review provides insights into the role of wildfire and anthropogenic BB on air quality and health globally. Further, we attempted to provide a basis for formulation of policies and regulations by policy makers in China.
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- Jianmin Chen
- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Particle Pollution and Prevention, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China; Collaborative Innovation Center of Climate Change, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China.
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Particle Pollution and Prevention, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- International Laboratory for Air Quality and Health, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD 4001, Australia
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- International Laboratory for Air Quality and Health, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD 4001, Australia
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- International Laboratory for Air Quality and Health, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD 4001, Australia
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- International Laboratory for Air Quality and Health, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD 4001, Australia
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- State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control, School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control, School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China
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- International Laboratory for Air Quality and Health, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD 4001, Australia
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Particle Pollution and Prevention, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- International Laboratory for Air Quality and Health, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD 4001, Australia
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- International Laboratory for Air Quality and Health, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD 4001, Australia.
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- International Laboratory for Air Quality and Health, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD 4001, Australia
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- School of Energy and Environment, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- School of Public Health, Curtin University, Perth, WA, 6000, Australia
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- Collaborative Innovation Center of Climate Change, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
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- Collaborative Innovation Center of Climate Change, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Particle Pollution and Prevention, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China; Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences, Manora Peak, Nainital 263001, India
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Pan LL, Atlas EL, Salawitch RJ, Honomichl SB, Bresch JF, Randel WJ, Apel EC, Hornbrook RS, Weinheimer AJ, Anderson DC, Andrews SJ, Baidar S, Beaton SP, Campos TL, Carpenter LJ, Chen D, Dix B, Donets V, Hall SR, Hanisco TF, Homeyer CR, Huey LG, Jensen JB, Kaser L, Kinnison DE, Koenig TK, Lamarque JF, Liu C, Luo J, Luo ZJ, Montzka DD, Nicely JM, Pierce RB, Riemer DD, Robinson T, Romashkin P, Saiz-Lopez A, Schauffler S, Shieh O, Stell MH, Ullmann K, Vaughan G, Volkamer R, Wolfe G. The Convective Transport of Active Species in the Tropics (CONTRAST) Experiment. BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY 2017; 98:106-128. [PMID: 29636590 PMCID: PMC5889942 DOI: 10.1175/bams-d-14-00272.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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The Convective Transport of Active Species in the Tropics (CONTRAST) experiment was conducted from Guam (13.5° N, 144.8° E) during January-February 2014. Using the NSF/NCAR Gulfstream V research aircraft, the experiment investigated the photochemical environment over the tropical western Pacific (TWP) warm pool, a region of massive deep convection and the major pathway for air to enter the stratosphere during Northern Hemisphere (NH) winter. The new observations provide a wealth of information for quantifying the influence of convection on the vertical distributions of active species. The airborne in situ measurements up to 15 km altitude fill a significant gap by characterizing the abundance and altitude variation of a wide suite of trace gases. These measurements, together with observations of dynamical and microphysical parameters, provide significant new data for constraining and evaluating global chemistry climate models. Measurements include precursor and product gas species of reactive halogen compounds that impact ozone in the upper troposphere/lower stratosphere. High accuracy, in-situ measurements of ozone obtained during CONTRAST quantify ozone concentration profiles in the UT, where previous observations from balloon-borne ozonesondes were often near or below the limit of detection. CONTRAST was one of the three coordinated experiments to observe the TWP during January-February 2014. Together, CONTRAST, ATTREX and CAST, using complementary capabilities of the three aircraft platforms as well as ground-based instrumentation, provide a comprehensive quantification of the regional distribution and vertical structure of natural and pollutant trace gases in the TWP during NH winter, from the oceanic boundary to the lower stratosphere.
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- L L Pan
- National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA
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- National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA
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- National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA
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- National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA
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- National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA
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- National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA
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- National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA
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- University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
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- University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA
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- National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA
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- National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA
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- Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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- University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA
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- University of Miami, Florida, USA
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- National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
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- University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, USA
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- Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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- National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA
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- National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA
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- National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA
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- University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA
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- National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA
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- Texas A&M University at Corpus Christi, Texas, USA
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- National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA
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- City College of New York, New York, New York, USA
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- National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA
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- University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
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- NOAA Satellite and Information Service (NESDIS) Center for Satellite Applications and Research (STAR), Madison Wisconsin, USA
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- University of Hawaii at Mānoa, Hawaii, USA
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- National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry Rocasolano, CSIC, Madrid, Spain
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- National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA
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- University of Hawaii at Mānoa, Hawaii, USA
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- National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA
- Metropolitan State University, Denver, Colorado, USA
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- National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA
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- University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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- University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
- University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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Yang X, Wang X, Yang W, Xu J, Ren L, He Y, Liu B, Bai Z, Meng F, Hu M. Aircraft measurements of SO2, NOx, CO, and O3 over the coastal and offshore area of Yellow Sea of China. ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT 2016; 188:527. [PMID: 27544762 DOI: 10.1007/s10661-016-5533-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2016] [Accepted: 08/09/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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In order to investigate long-range transport of the air pollution in the East Asia, air pollutants, including SO2, NOx, CO, and O3, were observed by aircraft measurement over the coastal and offshore area of Yellow Sea of China in April 2011. NOx and SO2 seemed to become moderate in recent years, and the concentrations during the whole observations ranged from 0.49 to 9.57 ppb and from 0.10 to 16.02 ppb, respectively. The high concentrations of CO were measured with an average value of 0.98 ppm. The measured O3 average concentration was 76.25 ppb, which showed a higher level comparing with the results from some previous studies. Most of the results for the concentration values generally followed the typical characteristic of vertical and spatial distribution, which were "low altitude > high altitude" and "land/coastal > sea," respectively. Transport of polluted air mass from the continent to the aircraft measurement area was confirmed in some days during the observation by the meteorological analysis, while the measurement results supposed to represent the background level of the pollutants in rest days. Additionally, some small-scale air pollution plumes were observed. Significant positive correlations between NOx and SO2 indicated that these two species originated from the same region. On the other hand, good positive correlations between NOx and O3 found during 2-day flight suggested that the O3 formation was probably under "NOx-limited" regime in these days.
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- Xiaoyang Yang
- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing, 100012, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing, 100012, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing, 100012, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing, 100012, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing, 100012, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing, 100012, China
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- China National Environmental Monitoring Center, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing, 100012, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing, 100012, China
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- Peking University, Beijing, China
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Qu Y, An J, He Y, Zheng J. An overview of emissions of SO2 and NOx and the long-range transport of oxidized sulfur and nitrogen pollutants in East Asia. J Environ Sci (China) 2016; 44:13-25. [PMID: 27266298 DOI: 10.1016/j.jes.2015.08.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2015] [Revised: 08/04/2015] [Accepted: 08/06/2015] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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The long-range transport of oxidized sulfur (sulfur dioxide (SO2) and sulfate) and oxidized nitrogen (nitrogen oxides (NOx) and nitrate) in East Asia is an area of increasing scientific interest and political concern. This paper reviews various published papers, including ground- and satellite-based observations and numerical simulations. The aim is to assess the status of the anthropogenic emissions of SO2 and NOx and the long-range transport of oxidized S and N pollutants over source and downwind region. China has dominated the emissions of SO2 and NOx in East Asia and urgently needs to strengthen the control of their emissions, especially NOx emissions. Oxidized S and N pollutants emitted from China are transported to Korea and Japan, due to persistent westerly winds, in winter and spring. However, the total contributions of China to S and N pollutants across Korea and Japan were not found to be dominant over longer time scales (e.g., a year). The source-receptor relationships for oxidized S and N pollutants in East Asia varied widely among the different studies. This is because: (1) the nonlinear effects of atmospheric chemistry and deposition processes were not well considered, when calculating the source-receptor relationships; (2) different meteorological and emission data inputs and solution schemes for key physical and chemical processes were used; and (3) different temporal and spatial scales were employed. Therefore, simulations using the same input fields and similar model configurations would be of benefit, to further evaluate the source-receptor relationships of the oxidized S and N pollutants.
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- Yu Qu
- State Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Physics and Atmospheric Chemistry, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Physics and Atmospheric Chemistry, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China.
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- Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China
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- China-ASEAN Environmental Cooperation Center, Ministry of Environmental Protection of the People's Republic of China, Beijing 100035, China
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Guo Y. Size distribution characteristics of carbonaceous aerosol in Xishuangbanna, southwest China: a sign for biomass burning in Asia. ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT 2016; 188:148. [PMID: 26851952 DOI: 10.1007/s10661-016-5111-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2015] [Accepted: 01/12/2016] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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In 2012, size-segregated aerosol samples were collected in Xishuangbanna, a forest station in southwest China. The concentrations of organic and elemental carbon (OC and EC for short) were quantified with thermal/optical carbon analyzer in the filter samples. OC and EC exhibited similar seasonal patterns, with the highest concentrations in spring, possibly due to the influence of biomass burning in south and southeast Asia. The mass size distributions of OC and EC were bimodal in all the sampling seasons, each with a dominant peak in the fine mode of 0.4-0.7 μm and a coarse peak in the size range of 2.1-4.7 μm. In fine mode, OC and EC showed smaller geometric mean diameters (GMDs) during winter. OC and EC were prone to be more concentrated in fine particles in spring and winter than in summer and autumn. Furthermore, EC was more abundant in fine particles than OC. Good correlations (R(2) = 0.75-0.82) between OC and EC indicated that they had common dominant sources of combustion such as biomass burning and fossil fuel combustion emissions. The daily average OC/EC ratios ranged from 2.1 to 9.1, more elevated OC/EC ratios being found in the winter.
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- Yuhong Guo
- Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100029, People's Republic of China.
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Aryasree S, Nair PR, Girach IA, Jacob S. Winter time chemical characteristics of aerosols over the Bay of Bengal: continental influence. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2015; 22:14901-14918. [PMID: 25994269 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-015-4700-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2015] [Accepted: 05/12/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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As part of the Integrated Campaign for Aerosols, gases and Radiation Budget (ICARB) conducted under the Geosphere Biosphere Programme of Indian Space Research Organisation, ship-based aerosol sampling was carried out over the marine environment of Bay of Bengal (BoB) during the northern winter months of December 2008 to January 2009. About 101 aerosol samples were collected, covering the region from 3.4° to 21° N latitude and 76° to 98° E longitude-the largest area covered-including the south east (SE) BoB for the first time. These samples were subjected to gravimetric and chemical analysis and the total aerosol loading as well the mass concentration of the ionic species namely F(-), Cl(-), Br(-), NO2 (-), NO3 (-), PO4 (2-), SO4 (2-), NH4 (+), etc. and the metallic species, Na, Mg, Ca, K, Al, Fe, Mn, Zn, and Pb were estimated for each sample. Based on the spatial distribution of individual chemical species, the air flow pattern, and airmass back trajectory analysis, the source characteristics of aerosols for different regions of BoB were identified. Significant level of continental pollution was noticed over BoB during winter. While transport of pollution from Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP) contributed to aerosols over north BoB, those over SE BoB were influenced by SE Asia. A quantitative study on the wind-induced production of sea salt aerosols and a case study on the species dependent effect of rainfall are also presented in this paper.
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- S Aryasree
- Space Physics Laboratory, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram, 695 022, India
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- Space Physics Laboratory, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram, 695 022, India.
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- Space Physics Laboratory, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram, 695 022, India
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- Analytical Spectroscopy Division, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram, 695 022, India
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Pochanart P. Residence time analysis of photochemical buildup of ozone in central eastern China from surface observation at Mt. Tai, Mt. Hua, and Mt. Huang in 2004. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2015; 22:14087-14094. [PMID: 25960018 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-015-4642-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2014] [Accepted: 04/30/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Using data from surface observation, backward trajectories, and residence time analysis, the amounts of regional photochemical ozone buildup due to the large-scale anthropogenic sources in central eastern China (CEC, 30.5-40.5 N, 112.5-122.5 E) at Mt. Tai, Mt. Hua, and Mt. Huang in 2004 were quantified. It was found that the CEC anthropogenic sources influenced the air masses and the associated ozone production most at Mt. Tai, located at the center of CEC domain. At Mt. Hua to the west of CEC domain and at Mt. Huang to the south of CEC domain, the air masses and the associated ozone production showed less CEC anthropogenic influences on a regional scale. At Mt. Tai and Mt. Huang, the ozone mixing ratios in the air masses that passed over polluted source regions in CEC increased during the first 40-70 h after arrival and showed the highest production rate of 31.2 and 12.2 ppb/day, respectively, in May and June. It was estimated that the CEC anthropogenic sources contributed 34-42% of ozone at Mt. Tai and 8-14% at Mt. Huang during this ozone peak season. The large contributions from CEC sources during fall season (Sep-Nov) were also estimated as 31-44 and 17-23% but with the lower ozone production rate of 22.6 and 8.4 ppb/day, respectively, for Mt. Tai and Mt. Huang.
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- Pakpong Pochanart
- School of Environmental Development Administration, National Institute of Development Administration (NIDA), 118 Serithai Rd., Klongchan, Bangkapi, Bangkok, 10240, Thailand,
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Asian pollution climatically modulates mid-latitude cyclones following hierarchical modelling and observational analysis. Nat Commun 2015; 5:3098. [PMID: 24448316 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4098] [Citation(s) in RCA: 129] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2013] [Accepted: 12/12/2013] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Increasing levels of anthropogenic aerosols in Asia have raised considerable concern regarding its potential impact on the global atmosphere, but the magnitude of the associated climate forcing remains to be quantified. Here, using a novel hierarchical modelling approach and observational analysis, we demonstrate modulated mid-latitude cyclones by Asian pollution over the past three decades. Regional and seasonal simulations using a cloud-resolving model show that Asian pollution invigorates winter cyclones over the northwest Pacific, increasing precipitation by 7% and net cloud radiative forcing by 1.0 W m(-2) at the top of the atmosphere and by 1.7 W m(-2) at the Earth's surface. A global climate model incorporating the diabatic heating anomalies from Asian pollution produces a 9% enhanced transient eddy meridional heat flux and reconciles a decadal variation of mid-latitude cyclones derived from the Reanalysis data. Our results unambiguously reveal a large impact of the Asian pollutant outflows on the global general circulation and climate.
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Lin NH, Sayer AM, Wang SH, Loftus AM, Hsiao TC, Sheu GR, Hsu NC, Tsay SC, Chantara S. Interactions between biomass-burning aerosols and clouds over Southeast Asia: current status, challenges, and perspectives. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2014; 195:292-307. [PMID: 25085565 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2014.06.036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2014] [Revised: 06/08/2014] [Accepted: 06/28/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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The interactions between aerosols, clouds, and precipitation remain among the largest sources of uncertainty in the Earth's energy budget. Biomass-burning aerosols are a key feature of the global aerosol system, with significant annually-repeating fires in several parts of the world, including Southeast Asia (SEA). SEA in particular provides a "natural laboratory" for these studies, as smoke travels from source regions downwind in which it is coupled to persistent stratocumulus decks. However, SEA has been under-exploited for these studies. This review summarizes previous related field campaigns in SEA, with a focus on the ongoing Seven South East Asian Studies (7-SEAS) and results from the most recent BASELInE deployment. Progress from remote sensing and modeling studies, along with the challenges faced for these studies, are also discussed. We suggest that improvements to our knowledge of these aerosol/cloud effects require the synergistic use of field measurements with remote sensing and modeling tools.
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- Neng-Huei Lin
- Department of Atmospheric Sciences, National Central University, Chung-Li, Taiwan; Chemistry Department and Environmental Science Program, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, 50200, Thailand.
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- Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA, Greenbelt, MD, USA; Universities Space Research Association, Columbia, MD, USA
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- Department of Atmospheric Sciences, National Central University, Chung-Li, Taiwan
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- Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA, Greenbelt, MD, USA; Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Oak Ridge, TN, USA
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- Graduate Institute of Environmental Engineering, National Central University, Chung-Li, Taiwan
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- Department of Atmospheric Sciences, National Central University, Chung-Li, Taiwan
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- Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA, Greenbelt, MD, USA
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- Chemistry Department and Environmental Science Program, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, 50200, Thailand
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Polluted dust promotes new particle formation and growth. Sci Rep 2014; 4:6634. [PMID: 25319109 PMCID: PMC4198867 DOI: 10.1038/srep06634] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2014] [Accepted: 08/22/2014] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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Understanding new particle formation and their subsequent growth in the troposphere has a critical impact on our ability to predict atmospheric composition and global climate change. High pre-existing particle loadings have been thought to suppress the formation of new atmospheric aerosol particles due to high condensation and coagulation sinks. Here, based on field measurements at a mountain site in South China, we report, for the first time, in situ observational evidence on new particle formation and growth in remote ambient atmosphere during heavy dust episodes mixed with anthropogenic pollution. Both the formation and growth rates of particles in the diameter range 15–50 nm were enhanced during the dust episodes, indicating the influence of photo-induced, dust surface-mediated reactions and resulting condensable vapor production. This study provides unique in situ observations of heterogeneous photochemical processes inducing new particle formation and growth in the real atmosphere, and suggests an unexpected impact of mineral dust on climate and atmospheric chemistry.
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Pan XL, Kanaya Y, Wang ZF, Tang X, Takigawa M, Pakpong P, Taketani F, Akimoto H. Using Bayesian optimization method and FLEXPART tracer model to evaluate CO emission in East China in springtime. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2014; 21:3873-3879. [PMID: 24288059 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-013-2317-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2013] [Accepted: 10/31/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Carbon monoxide (CO) is of great interest as a restriction factor for pollutants related to incomplete combustions. This study attempted to evaluate CO emission in East China using the analytical Bayesian inverse method and observations at Mount Hua in springtime. The mixing ratio of CO at the receptor was calculated using 5-day source-receptor relationship (SRR) simulated by a Lagrangian Particle Dispersion Model (FLEXPART) and CO emission flux. The stability of the inversion solution was evaluated on the basis of repeated random sampling simulations. The inversion results demonstrated that there were two city cluster regions (the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and the low reaches of the Yangtze River Delta) where the difference between a priori (Intercontinental Chemical Transport Experiment-Phase B, INTEX-B) and a posteriori was statistically significant and the a priori might underestimate the CO emission flux by 37 %. A correction factor (a posteriori/a priori) of 1.26 was suggested for CO emission in China in spring. The spatial distribution and magnitude of the CO emission flux were comparable to the latest regional emission inventory in Asia (REAS2.0). Nevertheless, further evaluation is still necessary in view of the larger uncertainties for both the analytical inversion and the bottom-up statistical approaches.
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- X L Pan
- Research Institute for Global Change, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokosuka, Japan,
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China is the world's largest emitter of anthropogenic air pollutants, and measurable amounts of Chinese pollution are transported via the atmosphere to other countries, including the United States. However, a large fraction of Chinese emissions is due to manufacture of goods for foreign consumption. Here, we analyze the impacts of trade-related Chinese air pollutant emissions on the global atmospheric environment, linking an economic-emission analysis and atmospheric chemical transport modeling. We find that in 2006, 36% of anthropogenic sulfur dioxide, 27% of nitrogen oxides, 22% of carbon monoxide, and 17% of black carbon emitted in China were associated with production of goods for export. For each of these pollutants, about 21% of export-related Chinese emissions were attributed to China-to-US export. Atmospheric modeling shows that transport of the export-related Chinese pollution contributed 3-10% of annual mean surface sulfate concentrations and 0.5-1.5% of ozone over the western United States in 2006. This Chinese pollution also resulted in one extra day or more of noncompliance with the US ozone standard in 2006 over the Los Angeles area and many regions in the eastern United States. On a daily basis, the export-related Chinese pollution contributed, at a maximum, 12-24% of sulfate concentrations over the western United States. As the United States outsourced manufacturing to China, sulfate pollution in 2006 increased in the western United States but decreased in the eastern United States, reflecting the competing effect between enhanced transport of Chinese pollution and reduced US emissions. Our findings are relevant to international efforts to reduce transboundary air pollution.
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An X, Sun Z, Lin W, Jin M, Li N. Emission inventory evaluation using observations of regional atmospheric background stations of China. J Environ Sci (China) 2013; 25:537-546. [PMID: 23923427 DOI: 10.1016/s1001-0742(12)60082-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Any accurate simulation of regional air quality by numerical models entails accurate and up-to-date emissions data for that region. The INTEX-B2006 (I06), one of the newest emission inventories recently popularly used in China and East Asia, has been assessed using the Community Multiscale Air Quality model and observations from regional atmospheric background stations of China. Comparisons of the model results with the observations for the species SO2, NO2, O3 and CO from the three regional atmospheric background stations of Shangdianzi, Longfengshan and Linan show that the model can basically capture the temporal characteristics of observations such as the monthly, seasonal and diurnal variance trends. Compared to the other three species, the simulated CO values were grossly underestimated by about two-third or one-half of the observed values, related to the uncertainty in CO emissions. Compared to the other two stations, Shangdianzi had poorer simulations, especially for SO2 and CO, which partly resulted from the site location close to local emission sources from the Beijing area; and the regional inventory used was not capable of capturing the influencing factors of strong regional sources on stations. Generally, the fact that summer gave poor simulation, especially for SO2 and O3, might partly relate to poor simulations of meteorological fields such as temperature and wind.
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- Xingqin An
- Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing 100081, China.
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Gerasopoulos E, Kazadzis S, Vrekoussis M, Kouvarakis G, Liakakou E, Kouremeti N, Giannadaki D, Kanakidou M, Bohn B, Mihalopoulos N. Factors affecting O3and NO2photolysis frequencies measured in the eastern Mediterranean during the five-year period 2002-2006. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2012. [DOI: 10.1029/2012jd017622] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Brondfield MN, Hutyra LR, Gately CK, Raciti SM, Peterson SA. Modeling and validation of on-road CO2 emissions inventories at the urban regional scale. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2012; 170:113-123. [PMID: 22776716 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2012.06.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2012] [Revised: 05/19/2012] [Accepted: 06/02/2012] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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On-road emissions are a major contributor to rising concentrations of atmospheric greenhouse gases. In this study, we applied a downscaling methodology based on commonly available spatial parameters to model on-road CO(2) emissions at the 1 × 1 km scale for the Boston, MA region and tested our approach with surface-level CO(2) observations. Using two previously constructed emissions inventories with differing spatial patterns and underlying data sources, we developed regression models based on impervious surface area and volume-weighted road density that could be scaled to any resolution. We found that the models accurately reflected the inventories at their original scales (R(2) = 0.63 for both models) and exhibited a strong relationship with observed CO(2) mixing ratios when downscaled across the region. Moreover, the improved spatial agreement of the models over the original inventories confirmed that either product represents a viable basis for downscaling in other metropolitan regions, even with limited data.
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- Max N Brondfield
- Department of Geography and Environment, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
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Gross BH, Kreutz KJ, Osterberg EC, McConnell JR, Handley M, Wake CP, Yalcin K. Constraining recent lead pollution sources in the North Pacific using ice core stable lead isotopes. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2012. [DOI: 10.1029/2011jd017270] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Barrett SRH, Yim SHL, Gilmore CK, Murray LT, Kuhn SR, Tai APK, Yantosca RM, Byun DW, Ngan F, Li X, Levy JI, Ashok A, Koo J, Wong HM, Dessens O, Balasubramanian S, Fleming GG, Pearlson MN, Wollersheim C, Malina R, Arunachalam S, Binkowski FS, Leibensperger EM, Jacob DJ, Hileman JI, Waitz IA. Public health, climate, and economic impacts of desulfurizing jet fuel. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2012; 46:4275-4282. [PMID: 22380547 DOI: 10.1021/es203325a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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In jurisdictions including the US and the EU ground transportation and marine fuels have recently been required to contain lower concentrations of sulfur, which has resulted in reduced atmospheric SO(x) emissions. In contrast, the maximum sulfur content of aviation fuel has remained unchanged at 3000 ppm (although sulfur levels average 600 ppm in practice). We assess the costs and benefits of a potential ultra-low sulfur (15 ppm) jet fuel standard ("ULSJ"). We estimate that global implementation of ULSJ will cost US$1-4bn per year and prevent 900-4000 air quality-related premature mortalities per year. Radiative forcing associated with reduction in atmospheric sulfate, nitrate, and ammonium loading is estimated at +3.4 mW/m(2) (equivalent to about 1/10th of the warming due to CO(2) emissions from aviation) and ULSJ increases life cycle CO(2) emissions by approximately 2%. The public health benefits are dominated by the reduction in cruise SO(x) emissions, so a key uncertainty is the atmospheric modeling of vertical transport of pollution from cruise altitudes to the ground. Comparisons of modeled and measured vertical profiles of CO, PAN, O(3), and (7)Be indicate that this uncertainty is low relative to uncertainties regarding the value of statistical life and the toxicity of fine particulate matter.
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- Steven R H Barrett
- Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.
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Hůnová I, Horálek J, Schreiberová M, Zapletal M. Ambient ozone exposure in Czech forests: a GIS-based approach to spatial distribution assessment. ScientificWorldJournal 2012; 2012:123760. [PMID: 22566757 PMCID: PMC3330065 DOI: 10.1100/2012/123760] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2011] [Accepted: 12/08/2011] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Ambient ozone (O3) is an important phytotoxic pollutant, and detailed knowledge of its spatial distribution is becoming increasingly important. The aim of the paper is to compare different spatial interpolation techniques and to recommend the best approach for producing a reliable map for O3 with respect to its phytotoxic potential. For evaluation we used real-time ambient O3 concentrations measured by UV absorbance from 24 Czech rural sites in the 2007 and 2008 vegetation seasons. We considered eleven approaches for spatial interpolation used for the development of maps for mean vegetation season O3 concentrations and the AOT40F exposure index for forests. The uncertainty of maps was assessed by cross-validation analysis. The root mean square error (RMSE) of the map was used as a criterion. Our results indicate that the optimal interpolation approach is linear regression of O3 data and altitude with subsequent interpolation of its residuals by ordinary kriging. The relative uncertainty of the map of O3 mean for the vegetation season is less than 10%, using the optimal method as for both explored years, and this is a very acceptable value. In the case of AOT40F, however, the relative uncertainty of the map is notably worse, reaching nearly 20% in both examined years.
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- I Hůnová
- Ambient Air Quality Department, Czech Hydrometeorological Institute, 14306 Prague, Czech Republic
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Hsu NC, Li C, Krotkov NA, Liang Q, Yang K, Tsay SC. Rapid transpacific transport in autumn observed by the A-train satellites. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2012. [DOI: 10.1029/2011jd016626] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Boynard A, Pfister GG, Edwards DP. Boundary layer versus free tropospheric CO budget and variability over the United States during summertime. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2012. [DOI: 10.1029/2011jd016416] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Oshima N, Kondo Y, Moteki N, Takegawa N, Koike M, Kita K, Matsui H, Kajino M, Nakamura H, Jung JS, Kim YJ. Wet removal of black carbon in Asian outflow: Aerosol Radiative Forcing in East Asia (A-FORCE) aircraft campaign. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2012. [DOI: 10.1029/2011jd016552] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Zhang YN, Zhang ZS, Chan CY, Engling G, Sang XF, Shi S, Wang XM. Levoglucosan and carbonaceous species in the background aerosol of coastal southeast China: case study on transport of biomass burning smoke from the Philippines. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2012; 19:244-255. [PMID: 21735161 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-011-0548-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2011] [Accepted: 06/08/2011] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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INTRODUCTION Levoglucosan and carbonaceous species in the background aerosol of coastal southeast China were measured at Jianfengling (JFL), a background mountain site in a National Reserve Park on Hainan Island, and at Hok Tsui (HT), a rural site on the southern coast of Hong Kong from April to May of 2004 during an intensive field study. METHODS We integrated the information from field study, satellite and backward trajectory model to examine the long-range transport of biomass burning smoke from the Philippines and assess its impact on background aerosol in coastal southeast China. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION The average levoglucosan concentrations were 42 and 30 ng m(-3) at JFL and HT, respectively, while the organic and elemental carbon concentrations were 3.1 and 0.4 μg C m(-3) respectively at JFL, and 4.1 and 1.3 μg C m(-3) respectively at HT. Elevated levoglucosan concentrations of 85-106 ng m(-3) (250-340% extra loadings) at JFL and 57 ng m(-3) (170% extra loading) at HT were observed during transport events in which air masses originated from the Philippines. Fire hot spot counts and aerosol index derived from satellite data showed that the spread of biomass burning smoke from the Philippines resulted in large-scale dense aerosol clouds in the adjacent South China Sea and the western Pacific Ocean. The observed high ratio of two biomass-burning tracers (levoglucosan to mannosan) at JFL (7-36) and HT (27) indicated that the biomass smoke originating from the Philippines had significant contributions from open-field burning of agricultural residues, such as rice straw. The pollution plumes were transported to southeast China resulting in elevated concentrations of carbonaceous aerosol and levoglucosan in particular. Using a simplified receptor-based approach, biomass smoke aerosol was estimated to account for 16-28% of OC in the background atmosphere of Hainan and 4.9% of OC at the rural site of Hong Kong during these episode cases, indicating that biomass burning smoke generated in the Philippines could have a significant contribution to background ambient aerosol of southeast coastal China.
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- Yi-Nan Zhang
- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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Zhang J, Zhang Q, Tang C, Han Y. Aerosol structure and vertical distribution in a multi-source dust region. J Environ Sci (China) 2012; 24:1466-1475. [PMID: 23513689 DOI: 10.1016/s1001-0742(11)60919-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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The vertical distribution of aerosols was directly observed under various atmospheric conditions in the free troposphere using surface micro-pulse lidar (MPL4) at the Zhangye Station (39.08 degrees N, 100.27 degrees E) in western China in the spring of 2008. The study shows that the aerosol distribution over Zhangye can be vertically classified into upper, middle and lower layers with altitudes of 4.5 to 9 km, 2.5 to 4.5 km, and less than 2.5 km, respectively. The aerosol in the upper layer originated from the external sources at higher altitude regions, from far desert regions upwind of Zhangye or transported from higher atmospheric layers by free convection, and the altitude of this aerosol layer decreased with time; the aerosols in the middle and lower layers originated from both external and local sources. The aerosol extinction coefficients in the upper and lower layers decreased with altitude, whereas the coefficient in the middle layer changed only slightly, which suggests that aerosol mixing occurs in the middle layer. The distribution of aerosols with altitude has three features: a single peak that forms under stable atmospheric conditions, an exponential decrease with altitude that occurs under unstable atmospheric conditions, and slight change in the mixed layer. Due to the impact of the top of the atmospheric boundary layer, the diurnal variation in the aerosol extinction coefficient has a single peak, which is higher in the afternoon and lower in the morning.
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- Jie Zhang
- Key Laboratory of Meteorological Disaster, Ministry of Education and Jiangsu Province, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing 210044, China.
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Brown-Steiner B, Hess P. Asian influence on surface ozone in the United States: A comparison of chemistry, seasonality, and transport mechanisms. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2011. [DOI: 10.1029/2011jd015846] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Lin YC, Lin CY, Lin PH, Engling G, Lan YY, Kuo TH, Hsu WT, Ting CC. Observations of ozone and carbon monoxide at Mei-Feng mountain site (2269 m a.s.l.) in Central Taiwan: seasonal variations and influence of Asian continental outflow. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2011; 409:3033-3042. [PMID: 21601237 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.04.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2010] [Revised: 03/10/2011] [Accepted: 04/11/2011] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Continuous measurements of ozone (O(3)) and carbon monoxide (CO) were carried out at Mei-Feng (24.05°N, 120.10°E, 2269 m above sea level), a remote mountain site in central Taiwan, to investigate the influence of long-range transported air pollution on O(3) and CO variations in the subtropical Pacific region. Data collected from March 2009 to September 2010 revealed average mixing ratios of 37±14 ppb for O(3) and 188±82 ppb for CO at this remote site. Diurnal variations for both O(3) and CO were observed as well in all seasons. The higher levels for O(3) and CO in the afternoon were attributed to transport of boundary layer pollution to the site during daytime upslope flow. Monthly means of both O(3) and CO showed maxima in spring and in the continental air masses from Southeast Asia, coastal China, and Korea/Japan. On the contrary, the lower O(3) and CO levels found in summer were due to the marine air masses originating from the Philippine Sea and Pacific Ocean. The relationship between O(3) and CO was analyzed, using nighttime data to minimize any local influence. The results showed a fairly good correlation between O(3) and CO from March to September. The contribution of CO from the Asian outflow reached a maximum in spring (88 ppb) and had a minimum in summer (27 ppb). The photochemical buildup of O(3) resulting from anthropogenic emissions in continental Asia was estimated to be 15 ppb in spring, while its production was insignificant, with an average of 4 ppb, in summer. A positive correlation between O(3) and CO plus high ozone levels in springtime suggested that the enhancements of O(3) were likely due to O(3) which was photochemically produced over this region.
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- Yu Chi Lin
- Research Center for Environmental Changes, Academia, Sinica, Nankang, Taipei, 115, Taiwan.
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Wofsy SC. HIAPER Pole-to-Pole Observations (HIPPO): fine-grained, global-scale measurements of climatically important atmospheric gases and aerosols. PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. SERIES A, MATHEMATICAL, PHYSICAL, AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES 2011; 369:2073-86. [PMID: 21502177 DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2010.0313] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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The HIAPER Pole-to-Pole Observations (HIPPO) programme has completed three of five planned aircraft transects spanning the Pacific from 85 ° N to 67 ° S, with vertical profiles every approximately 2.2 ° of latitude. Measurements include greenhouse gases, long-lived tracers, reactive species, O(2)/N(2) ratio, black carbon (BC), aerosols and CO(2) isotopes. Our goals are to address the problem of determining surface emissions, transport strength and patterns, and removal rates of atmospheric trace gases and aerosols at global scales and to provide strong tests of satellite data and global models. HIPPO data show dense pollution and BC at high altitudes over the Arctic, imprints of large N(2)O sources from tropical lands and convective storms, sources of pollution and biogenic CH(4) in the Arctic, and summertime uptake of CO(2) and sources for O(2) at high southern latitudes. Global chemical signatures of atmospheric transport are imaged, showing remarkably sharp horizontal gradients at air mass boundaries, weak vertical gradients and inverted profiles (maxima aloft) in both hemispheres. These features challenge satellite algorithms, global models and inversion analyses to derive surface fluxes. HIPPO data can play a crucial role in identifying and resolving questions of global sources, sinks and transport of atmospheric gases and aerosols.
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- S C Wofsy
- Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
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Sikder HA, Suthawaree J, Kato S, Kajii Y. Surface ozone and carbon monoxide levels observed at Oki, Japan: regional air pollution trends in East Asia. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 2011; 92:953-959. [PMID: 21129843 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2010.10.062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2010] [Revised: 10/26/2010] [Accepted: 10/27/2010] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Simultaneous ground-based measurements of ozone and carbon monoxide were performed at Oki, Japan, from January 2001 to September 2002 in order to investigate the O(3) and CO characteristics and their distributions. The observations revealed that O(3) and CO concentrations were maximum in springtime and minimum in the summer. The monthly averaged concentrations of O(3) and CO were 60 and 234 ppb in spring and 23 and 106 ppb in summer, respectively. Based on direction, 5-day isentropic backward trajectory analysis was carried out to determine the transport path of air masses, preceding their arrival at Oki. Comparison between classified results from present work and results from the year 1994-1996 was carried out. The O(3) and CO concentration results of classified air masses in our analysis show similar concentration trends to previous findings; highest in the WNW/W, lowest in N/NE and medium levels in NW. Moreover, O(3) levels are higher and CO levels are lower in the present study in all categories.
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- Helena Akhter Sikder
- Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Urban Environmental Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University, 1-1 Minami-Ohsawa, Hachioji City, Tokyo 192-0397, Japan.
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Li Z, Li C, Chen H, Tsay SC, Holben B, Huang J, Li B, Maring H, Qian Y, Shi G, Xia X, Yin Y, Zheng Y, Zhuang G. East Asian Studies of Tropospheric Aerosols and their Impact on Regional Climate (EAST-AIRC): An overview. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2011. [DOI: 10.1029/2010jd015257] [Citation(s) in RCA: 102] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Zhang M, Chen JM, Wang T, Cheng TT, Lin L, Bhatia RS, Hanvey M. Chemical characterization of aerosols over the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean during two cruises in 2007 and 2008. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2010. [DOI: 10.1029/2010jd014246] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Logan T, Xi B, Dong X, Obrecht R, Li Z, Cribb M. A study of Asian dust plumes using satellite, surface, and aircraft measurements during the INTEX-B field experiment. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2010. [DOI: 10.1029/2010jd014134] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Clarke A, Kapustin V. Hemispheric Aerosol Vertical Profiles: Anthropogenic Impacts on Optical Depth and Cloud Nuclei. Science 2010; 329:1488-92. [DOI: 10.1126/science.1188838] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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- Antony Clarke
- School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST), University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
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- School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST), University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
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Toon OB, Starr DO, Jensen EJ, Newman PA, Platnick S, Schoeberl MR, Wennberg PO, Wofsy SC, Kurylo MJ, Maring H, Jucks KW, Craig MS, Vasques MF, Pfister L, Rosenlof KH, Selkirk HB, Colarco PR, Kawa SR, Mace GG, Minnis P, Pickering KE. Planning, implementation, and first results of the Tropical Composition, Cloud and Climate Coupling Experiment (TC4). ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2010. [DOI: 10.1029/2009jd013073] [Citation(s) in RCA: 106] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Kim HS, Chung YS. On the sandstorms and associated airborne dustfall episodes observed at Cheongwon in Korea in 2005. AIR QUALITY, ATMOSPHERE, & HEALTH 2010; 3:83-94. [PMID: 20495600 PMCID: PMC2860092 DOI: 10.1007/s11869-009-0054-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2009] [Accepted: 09/25/2009] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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Sandstorms in the desert and loess regions of north-northwestern China and Mongolia, as well as the associated dustfall episodes in the Korean Peninsula, were monitored between January and December 2005. Composite color images were made on the basis of data received directly from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellite advanced very high resolution radiometer, and the distribution and transport of dust clouds were analyzed. The ground concentrations of PM10 and PM2.5 and visibility during dustfall episodes (where the PM10 concentration exceeds 190 mug m(-3) for at least 2 h) were also analyzed at Cheongwon, in central South Korea, which lies in the leeward direction from the origin of sandstorms. Fewer strong sandstorms occurred in the places of origin in 2005, mainly because of the snow cover with moderate high and low pressure systems in the place of dust origin. The weather patterns explain why there were fewer dustfall episodes in Korea in 2005 than in the period between 1997 and 2004. A total of seven dustfall episodes were monitored in Korea in 2005 and they covered a period of 11 days. In the summer of 2005, sandstorms occurred less frequently in the source region due to high humidity and weaker winds; as a result, there were no dustfall episodes in Korea. When the sandstorms at the source headed directly to Korea without passing through any large cities or industrial areas of China, the PM2.5 concentrations were up to 20% of the PM10 concentrations. However, when the sandstorms headed to Korea via the industrial areas of eastern China, where they pick up anthropogenic air pollutants, the PM2.5 concentrations were at least 25% of the PM10 concentrations. In five of the cases that were observed and analyzed in 2005, the PM10 concentrations of the sand dust that originated in the deserts were 190 mug m(-3) or less, which is below the level of a dustfall episode.
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- Hak Sung Kim
- Korea Centre for Atmospheric Environment Research, 304 Koonghyon, Kangnae, Cheongwon, Choongbuk, 363-891 Korea
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- Korea Centre for Atmospheric Environment Research, 304 Koonghyon, Kangnae, Cheongwon, Choongbuk, 363-891 Korea
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Li C, Krotkov NA, Dickerson RR, Li Z, Yang K, Chin M. Transport and evolution of a pollution plume from northern China: A satellite-based case study. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2010. [DOI: 10.1029/2009jd012245] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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