General discussion: Urban air quality; Meteorological influences and air quality trends
General discussion: Urban air quality; Meteorological influences and air quality trends
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一般性讨论:城市空气质量;
DOI:
10.1039/d1fd90014e
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发表时间:
2021
影响因子:
3.4
通讯作者:
Bloss W
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作者:
Bloss W
Ying Chen opened the discussion of the paper by Jian Zhen Yu: Thanks for the very nice work, Professor Yu. I am thinking about how we could gure out the proportion of surface concentration reductions attributed to meteorological change and lockdown. Presumably, February is warmer than January and planetary boundary layer (PBL) could be higher and that dilutes the pollutants as well? Maybe the difference between February and January in 2019 could give us some hints?Jian Zhen Yu responded: We agree that broadly speaking, meteorological conditions play a role in affecting PM2. 5 pollutant concentrations. To qualitatively examine the impact of the synoptic weather conditions, we did cluster analysis of air mass back trajectories, which generated four clusters for the eld observation period of 1 January to 9 February 2020 (Fig. 1 in our paper). Section 3.1 of our paper provides a detailed description. The cluster-wide difference in temperature was observed between cluster 2 and the other three clusters, with cluster 2 showing signi cantly lower temperatures (7th plot in Fig. 2), in accordance with its origin as it comes from the northern continental area (Fig. 1). On the other hand, the overall temperature difference between early February and January was not distinct. Comparison of pollutants in the same air mass cluster for before and during lockdown periods shows NOx was notably lower while O3 was notably higher during lockdown, regardless of air mass cluster types. On the other hand, the difference in PM2. 5 before and during lockdown varied among different clusters, re ecting the higher interplay in complex factors (eg, emissions, meteorology, and chemistry) that impact PM2. 5 and its major components. A 3D air quality modelling investigation will be needed to quantitatively ascertain the proportion of concentration reduction due to meteorological factors or emissions/chemistry arising from lockdown.