Aerosol chemical, physical, and radiative characteristics near a desert source region of northwest China during ACE‐Asia
Aerosol chemical, physical, and radiative characteristics near a desert source region of northwest China during ACE‐Asia
复制标题
DOI:
10.1029/2003jd004239
复制
发表时间:
2004-10
影响因子:
--
通讯作者:
Jin Xu;M. Bergin;R. Greenwald;J. Schauer;M. Shafer;J. Jaffrezo;G. Aymoz
中科院分区:
文献类型:
--
作者:
Jin Xu;M. Bergin;R. Greenwald;J. Schauer;M. Shafer;J. Jaffrezo;G. Aymoz
in both sap and ssp, resulting from diurnal changes in the mixing height as well as from local combustion sources in the morning and dust sources in the afternoon. Two distinct populations of aerosol mass scattering efficiencies Escat_2.5, one for aerosols dominated by desert dust (� 1.0 m 2 g � 1 ) and the other for aerosols composed primarily of local pollutants (� 3.0 m 2 g � 1 ), are observed. During the field study there were three significant dust events that occurred for, on average, several days at a time. The most significant dust storm resulted in a 24-hour-average PM2.5 concentration (mass concentration of particles having aerodynamic diameters less than 2.5 mm) of 453 m gm � 3 and a peak ssp of 2510 Mm � 1 on 8 April. The mean PM2.5 mass concentration during the dust storm periods is approximately 169 m gm � 3 , about 4 times greater than the mean value of 44 m gm � 3 observed during local pollution periods. When local pollution is the dominant source of fine particulate mass, organic matter (OM) is the major chemical component, contributing 41% to the PM2.5 mass, followed by crustal material (29%), sulfate (17%), and elemental carbon (EC) (13%). During sand storm periods, � 51% of PM2.5 mass is crustal material, followed by CO3� (11%) and OM (9.5%). The element enrichment factors indicate that coal combustion, biomass burning, and mobile source emissions are important local pollution sources. Overall, our results indicate that in addition to dust, local pollution also has a significant influence on aerosol properties in the region. INDEX TERMS: 0305 Atmospheric Composition and Structure: Aerosols and particles (0345, 4801); 0345 Atmospheric Composition and Structure: Pollution—urban and regional (0305); 0360 Atmospheric Composition and Structure: Transmission and scattering of radiation; 9320 Information Related to Geographic Region: Asia; KEYWORDS: aerosol, dust, ACE-Asia