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DOI | 10.5194/acp-21-12091-2021 |
Diurnal evolution of total column and surface atmospheric ammonia in the megacity of Paris, France, during an intense springtime pollution episode | |
Kutzner, Rebecca D.; Cuesta, Juan; Chelin, Pascale; Petit, Jean-Eudes; Ray, Mokhtar; Landsheere, Xavier; Tournadre, Benoit; Dupont, Jean-Charles; Rosso, Amandine; Orphal, Johannes; Beekmann, Matthias | |
通讯作者 | Kutzner, RD ; Chelin, P (corresponding author), Univ Paris Est Creteil, Univ Paris, Inst Pierre Simon Laplace IPSL, Lab Interuniv Syst Atmospher LISA,CNRS,UMR 7583, Creteil, France. |
来源期刊 | ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
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ISSN | 1680-7316 |
EISSN | 1680-7324 |
出版年 | 2021 |
卷号 | 21期号:15页码:12091-12111 |
英文摘要 | Ammonia (NH3) is a key precursor for the formation of atmospheric secondary inorganic particles, such as ammonium nitrate and sulfate. Although the chemical processes associated with the gas-to-particle conversion are well known, atmospheric concentrations of gaseous ammonia are still scarcely characterized. However, this information is critical, especially for processes concerning the equilibrium between ammonia and ammonium nitrate, due to the semivolatile character of the latter. This study presents an analysis of the diurnal cycle of atmospheric ammonia during a pollution event over the Paris megacity region in spring 2012 (5 d in late March 2012). Our objective is to analyze the link between the diurnal evolution of surface NH3 concentrations and its integrated column abundance, meteorological variables and relevant chemical species involved in gas-particle partitioning. For this, we implement an original approach based on the combined use of surface and total column ammonia measurements. These last ones are derived from ground-based remote sensing measurements performed by the Observations of the Atmosphere by Solar Infrared Spectroscopy (OASIS) Fourier transform infrared observatory at an urban site over the southeastern suburbs of the Paris megacity. This analysis considers the following meteorological variables and processes relevant to the ammonia pollution event: temperature, relative humidity, wind speed and direction, and the atmospheric boundary layer height (as indicator of vertical dilution during its diurnal development). Moreover, we study the partitioning between ammonia and ammonium particles from concomitant measurements of total particulate matter (PM) and ammonium (NH4+) concentrations at the surface. We identify the origin of the pollution event as local emissions at the beginning of the analyzed period and advection of pollution from Benelux and western Germany by the end. Our results show a clearly different diurnal behavior of atmospheric ammonia concentrations at the surface and those vertically integrated over the total atmospheric column. Surface concentrations remain relatively stable during the day, while total column abundances show a minimum value in the morning and rise steadily to reach a relative maximum in the late afternoon during each day of the spring pollution event. These differences are mainly explained by vertical mixing within the boundary layer, provided that this last one is considered well mixed and therefore homogeneous in ammonia concentrations. This is suggested by ground-based measurements of vertical profiles of aerosol backscatter, used as tracer of the vertical distribution of pollutants in the atmospheric boundary layer. Indeed, the afternoon enhancement of ammonia clearly seen by OASIS for the whole atmospheric column is barely depicted by surface concentrations, as the surface concentrations are strongly affected by vertical dilution within the rising boundary layer. Moreover, the concomitant occurrence of a decrease in ammonium particle concentrations and an increase in gaseous ammonia abundance suggests the volatilization of particles for forming ammonia. Furthermore, surface observations may also suggest nighttime formation of ammonium particles from gas-to-particle conversion, for relative humidity levels higher than the deliquescence point of ammonium nitrate. |
类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
开放获取类型 | gold, Green Submitted, Green Published |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000685219500002 |
WOS关键词 | THERMODYNAMIC-EQUILIBRIUM MODEL ; AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTH ; NEAR-REAL-TIME ; SPATIOTEMPORAL REPRESENTATION ; RETRIEVAL ; NH3 ; EMISSIONS ; ALGORITHM ; NETWORK ; VERSION |
WOS类目 | Environmental Sciences ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
WOS研究方向 | Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
资源类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/362645 |
作者单位 | [Kutzner, Rebecca D.; Cuesta, Juan; Chelin, Pascale; Ray, Mokhtar; Landsheere, Xavier; Tournadre, Benoit; Beekmann, Matthias] Univ Paris Est Creteil, Univ Paris, Inst Pierre Simon Laplace IPSL, Lab Interuniv Syst Atmospher LISA,CNRS,UMR 7583, Creteil, France; [Petit, Jean-Eudes] CEA, Orme Merisiers, Lab Sci Climat & Environm, UMR 8212, F-91191 Gif Sur Yvette, France; [Petit, Jean-Eudes] INERIS, Parc Technol ALATA, F-60750 Verneuil En Halatte, France; [Dupont, Jean-Charles] Univ Paris Saclay, Ecole Polytech, UVSQ, Inst Pierre Simon Laplace, F-91128 Palaiseau, France; [Rosso, Amandine] Airparif, Agence Surveillance Qualite Air, Paris, France; [Orphal, Johannes] Karlsruher Inst Technol KIT, Inst Meteorol & Klimaforsch IMK, Karlsruhe, Germany; [Tournadre, Benoit] Ctr Observat Impacts Energy Mines ParisTech, Sophia Antipolis, France |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Kutzner, Rebecca D.,Cuesta, Juan,Chelin, Pascale,et al. Diurnal evolution of total column and surface atmospheric ammonia in the megacity of Paris, France, during an intense springtime pollution episode[J],2021,21(15):12091-12111. |
APA | Kutzner, Rebecca D..,Cuesta, Juan.,Chelin, Pascale.,Petit, Jean-Eudes.,Ray, Mokhtar.,...&Beekmann, Matthias.(2021).Diurnal evolution of total column and surface atmospheric ammonia in the megacity of Paris, France, during an intense springtime pollution episode.ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS,21(15),12091-12111. |
MLA | Kutzner, Rebecca D.,et al."Diurnal evolution of total column and surface atmospheric ammonia in the megacity of Paris, France, during an intense springtime pollution episode".ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS 21.15(2021):12091-12111. |
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