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- Title
Distinctions in source regions and formation mechanisms of secondary aerosol in Beijing from summer to winter.
- Authors
Duan, Jing; Huang, Ru-Jin; Lin, Chunshui; Dai, Wenting; Wang, Meng; Gu, Yifang; Wang, Ying; Zhong, Haobin; Zheng, Yan; Ni, Haiyan; Dusek, Uli; Chen, Yang; Li, Yongjie; Chen, Qi; Worsnop, Douglas R.; O'Dowd, Colin D.; Cao, Junji
- Abstract
To investigate the sources and evolution of haze pollution in different seasons, long-term (from 15 August to 4 December 2015) variations in chemical composition of PM 1 were characterized in Beijing, China. Positive matrix factorization (PMF) analysis with a multi-linear engine (ME-2) resolved three primary and two secondary organic aerosol (OA) sources, including hydrocarbon-like OA (HOA), cooking OA (COA), coal combustion OA (CCOA), local secondary OA (LSOA) and regional SOA (RSOA). The sulfate source region analysis implies that sulfate was mainly transported at a large regional scale in late summer, while local and/or nearby sulfate formation may be more important in winter. Meanwhile, distinctly different correlations between sulfate and RSOA or LSOA (i.e., better correlation with RSOA in late summer, similar correlations with RSOA and LSOA in autumn, and close correlation with LSOA in early winter) confirmed the regional characteristic of RSOA and local property of LSOA. Secondary aerosol species including secondary inorganic aerosol (SIA – sulfate, nitrate, and ammonium) and SOA (LSOA and RSOA) dominated PM 1 during all three seasons. In particular, SOA contributed 46 % to total PM 1 (with 31 % as RSOA) in late summer, whereas SIA contributed 41 % and 45 % to total PM 1 in autumn and early winter, respectively. Enhanced contributions of secondary species (66 %–76 % of PM 1) were also observed in pollution episodes during all three seasons, further emphasizing the importance of secondary formation processes in haze pollution in Beijing. Combining chemical composition and meteorological data, our analyses suggest that both photochemical oxidation and aqueous-phase processing played important roles in SOA formation during all three seasons, while for sulfate formation, gas-phase photochemical oxidation was the major pathway in late summer, aqueous-phase reactions were more responsible during early winter and both processes had contributions during autumn.
- Subjects
BEIJING (China); HAZE; SINGAPORE Airlines Ltd.; AEROSOLS; SUMMER; COAL combustion; MATRIX decomposition; AUTUMN
- Publication
Atmospheric Chemistry & Physics, 2019, Vol 19, Issue 15, p10319
- ISSN
1680-7316
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5194/acp-19-10319-2019