| Autor: |
Xiao-Bing Li, Haichao Wang, Caihong Wu, E Zheng, Suxia Yang, Chen Wang, Wei Chen, Shan Huang, Sihang Wang, Bin Yuan, Duohong Chen, Chenglei Pei, Xinming Wang, Zelong Wang, Chunlei Cheng, Wei Song, Xiaoyun Yang, Xianjun He, Wenjie Wang, Mingfu Cai, Weiwei Hu, David D. Parrish, Min Shao, Xuemei Wang, Chaomin Wang, Baolin Wang, Jun Zhou, Yuwen Peng, Junyu Zheng, Tiange Li, Yu Song, Zhanyi Zhang, Peng Cheng, Chenshuo Ye, Jipeng Qi |
| Rok vydání: |
2022 |
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| Zdroj: |
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 22:4539-4556 |
| ISSN: |
1680-7324 |
| Popis: |
Ambient nitrate has been of increasing concern in PM2.5, while there are still large uncertainties in quantifying the formation of nitrate aerosol. The formation pathways of nitrate aerosol at an urban site and a suburban site in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) are investigated using an observation-constrained box model. Throughout the campaigns, aerosol pollution episodes were constantly accompanied with the increase in nitrate concentrations and fractions at both urban and suburban sites. The simulations demonstrate that chemical reactions in the daytime and at night both contributed significantly to formation of nitrate in the boundary layer at the two sites. However, nighttime reactions predominantly occurred aloft in the residual layer at the urban site, and downward transport from the residual layer in the morning is an important source (53 %) for surface nitrate at the urban site, whereas similar amounts of nitrate were produced in the nocturnal boundary layer and residual layer at the suburban site, which results in little downward transport of nitrate from the residual layer to the ground at the suburban site. We show that nitrate formation was in the volatile-organic-compound-limited (VOC-limited) regime at the urban site, and in the transition regime at the suburban site, identical to the response of ozone at both sites. The reduction of VOC emissions can be an efficient approach to mitigate nitrate in both urban and suburban areas through influencing hydroxyl radical (OH) and N2O5 production, which will also be beneficial for the synergistic control of regional ozone pollution. The results highlight that the relative importance of nitrate formation pathways and ozone can be site-specific, and the quantitative understanding of various pathways of nitrate formation will provide insights for developing nitrate and ozone mitigation strategies. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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