Sources, Transport and Visibility Impact of Ambient Submicrometer Particle Size Distributions in an Urban Area of Central Taiwan

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Sources, Transport and Visibility Impact of Ambient Submicrometer Particle Size Distributions in an Urban Area of Central Taiwan
المؤلفون: Li-Hao Young, Chih-Sheng Hsu, Ta-Chih Hsiao, Neng-Huei Lin, Si-Chee Tsay, Tang-Huang Lin, Wen-Yinn Lin, Chau-Ren Jung
المصدر: Science of the Total Environment. 856(Part 2)
بيانات النشر: United States: NASA Center for Aerospace Information (CASI), 2022.
سنة النشر: 2022
مصطلحات موضوعية: Geosciences (General)
الوصف: This study applied positive matrix factorization (PMF) to identify the sources of size-resolved submicrometer (10–1000 nm) particles and quantify their contributions to impaired visibility based on the particle number size distributions (PNSDs), aerosol light extinction (bp), air pollutants (PM10, PM2.5, SO2, O3, and NO), and meteorological parameters (temperature, relative humidity, wind speed, wind direction, and ultraviolet index) measured hourly over an urban basin in central Taiwan between 2017 and 2021. The transport of source-specific PNSDs was evaluated with wind and back trajectory analyses. The PMF revealed six sources to the total particle number (TPN), surface (TPS), volume (TPV), and bp. Factor 1 (F1), the key contributor to TPN (35.0 %), represented nucleation (<25 nm) particles associated with fresh traffic emission and secondary new particle formation, which were transported from the west-southwest by stronger winds (>2.2 m s-1). F2 represented the large Aitken (50–100 nm) particles transported regionally via northerly winds, whereas F3 represented large accumulation (300–1000 nm) particles, which showed elevated concentrations under stagnant conditions (<1.1 m s−1). F4 represented small Aitken (25–50 nm) particles arising from the growth and transport of the nucleation particles (F1) via west-southwesterly winds. F5 represented large Aitken particles originating from combustion-related SO2 sources and carried by west-northwesterly winds. F6 represented small accumulation (100–300 nm) particles emitted both by local sources and by the remote SO2 sources found for F5. Overall, large accumulation particles (F3) played the greatest role in determining the TPV (66.4 %) and TPS (34.8 %), and their contribution to bp increased markedly from 17.3 % to 40.7 % as visibility decreased, indicating that TPV and TPS are better metrics than TPN for estimating bp. Furthermore, slow-moving air masses—and therefore stagnant conditions—facilitate the build-up of accumulation mode particles (F3 + F6), resulting in the poorest visibility.
نوع الوثيقة: Report
اللغة: English
تدمد: 1879-1026
0048-9697
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.159070
URL الوصول: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20230002272
ملاحظات: 509496.02.03.01.17.26
رقم الأكسشن: edsnas.20230002272
قاعدة البيانات: NASA Technical Reports
الوصف
تدمد:18791026
00489697
DOI:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.159070