Taehwa Research Forest: A receptor site for severe domestic pollution events in Korea during 2016.

Autor: Sullivan JT; Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, 20771, USA., McGee TJ; Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, 20771, USA., Stauffer RM; Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, 20771, USA.; Universities Space Research Association, Columbia, MD, 21046, USA., Thompson AM; Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, 20771, USA., Weinheimer A; National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, 80305, USA., Knote C; Meteorologisches Institut, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, München, Germany., Janz S; Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, 20771, USA., Wisthaler A; Department of Chemistry, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.; Institute for Ion Physics and Applied Physics, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria., Long R; US EPA/Office of Research and Development/National Exposure Research Lab, Research Triangle Park, NC, 27711, USA., Szykman J; US EPA/Office of Research and Development/National Exposure Research Lab, Research Triangle Park, NC, 27711, USA.; NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, 2368, USA., Park J; National Institute of Environmental Research, Incheon, South Korea., Lee Y; National Institute of Environmental Research, Incheon, South Korea., Kim S; Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA., Jeong D; Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA., Sanchez D; Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA., Twigg L; Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, 20771, USA.; Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, 20706, USA., Sumnicht G; Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, 20771, USA.; Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, 20706, USA., Knepp T; NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, 2368, USA.; Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Hampton, VA, 23666, USA., Schroeder JR; California Air Resources Board, Sacramento, CA, 95814, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Atmospheric chemistry and physics [Atmos Chem Phys] 2019; Vol. 19 (7), pp. 5051-5067.
DOI: 10.5194/acp-19-5051-2019
Abstrakt: During the May-June 2016 International Cooperative Air Quality Field Study in Korea (KORUS-AQ), light synoptic meteorological forcing facilitated Seoul metropolitan pollution outflow to reach the remote Taehwa Research Forest (TRF) site and cause regulatory exceedances of ozone on 24 days. Two of these severe pollution events are thoroughly examined. The first, occurring on 17 May 2016, tracks transboundary pollution transport exiting eastern China and the Yellow Sea, traversing the Seoul Metropolitan Area (SMA), and then reaching TRF in the afternoon hours with severely polluted conditions. This case study indicates that although outflow from China and the Yellow Sea were elevated with respect to chemically unperturbed conditions, the regulatory exceedance at TRF was directly linked in time, space, and altitude to urban Seoul emissions. The second case studied, occurring on 09 June 2016, reveals that increased levels of biogenic emissions, in combination with amplified urban emissions, were associated with severe levels of pollutions and a regulatory exceedance at TRF. In summary, domestic emissions may be causing more pollution than by trans-boundary pathways, which have been historically believed to be the major source of air pollution in South Korea. The case studies are assessed with multiple aircraft, model (photochemical and meteorological) simulations, in-situ chemical sampling, and extensive ground-based profiling at TRF. These observations clearly identify TRF and the surrounding rural communities as receptor sites for severe pollution events associated with Seoul outflow, which will result in long-term negative effects to both human health and agriculture in the affected areas.
Databáze: MEDLINE