Wintertime Aerosol Chemistry in Sub-Arctic Urban Air
Measurements of submicron particulate matter (PM) were performed at an urban background station, in Helsinki, Finland during wintertime to investigate the chemical characteristics and sources of PM 1 . The PM 1 was dominated by sulfate and organics. The source apportionment indicated that organic ae...
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ftdatacite:10.6084/m9.figshare.963449 2023-05-15T15:00:57+02:00 Wintertime Aerosol Chemistry in Sub-Arctic Urban Air Sueper, Donna Jimenez, Jose L. Worsnop, Douglas R. Carbone, Samara Aurela, Minna Saarnio, Karri Saarikoski, Sanna Timonen, Hilkka Frey, Anna Ulbrich, Ingrid M. Kulmala, Markku Hillamo, Risto E. 2014 https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.963449 https://tandf.figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Wintertime_Aerosol_Chemistry_in_Sub_Arctic_Urban_Air/963449 unknown Taylor & Francis https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02786826.2013.875115 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode cc-by-4.0 CC-BY Uncategorized Text article-journal Journal contribution ScholarlyArticle 2014 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.963449 https://doi.org/10.1080/02786826.2013.875115 2021-11-05T12:55:41Z Measurements of submicron particulate matter (PM) were performed at an urban background station, in Helsinki, Finland during wintertime to investigate the chemical characteristics and sources of PM 1 . The PM 1 was dominated by sulfate and organics. The source apportionment indicated that organic aerosol (OA) was a mixture from local sources (biomass burning (BBOA), traffic, coffee roaster (CROA)), secondary compounds formed in local wintertime conditions (nitrogen containing OA (NOA), semivolatile oxygenated OA (SV-OOA), and regional and long-range transported compounds (low volatile oxygenated OA, LV-OOA). BBOA was dominated by the fragments C 2 H 4 O 2 + and C 3 H 4 O 2 + (m/z 60.021 and 73.029) from levoglucosan, or other similar sugar components, comprising on average 32% of the BBOA mass concentration. The ratio between fragments C 2 H 4 O 2 + /C 3 H 4 O 2 + was significantly lower for CROA (=1.1) when compared to BBOA (=2.1), indicating that they consisted of different sugar compounds. In addition, a component containing substantial amount of nitrogen compounds (NOA) was observed in a sub-arctic region for the first time. The NOA contribution to OA ranged from 1% to 29% and elevated concentrations were observed when ambient relative humidity was high and the visibility low. Low solar radiation and temperature in wintertime were observed to influence the oxidation of compounds. A change in aerosol composition, with an increase of LV-OOA and decrease in BBOA, SV-OOA and NOA was noticed during the transition from wintertime to springtime. Size distribution measurements with high-time resolution enabled chemical characterization of externally mixed aerosol from different sources. Aged regional long-range transported aerosols were dominant at around 0.5 μm (vacuum aerodynamic diameter), whereas traffic and CROA emissions dominated at around 120 nm. Copyright 2014 American Association for Aerosol Research Text Arctic DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Arctic |
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Measurements of submicron particulate matter (PM) were performed at an urban background station, in Helsinki, Finland during wintertime to investigate the chemical characteristics and sources of PM 1 . The PM 1 was dominated by sulfate and organics. The source apportionment indicated that organic aerosol (OA) was a mixture from local sources (biomass burning (BBOA), traffic, coffee roaster (CROA)), secondary compounds formed in local wintertime conditions (nitrogen containing OA (NOA), semivolatile oxygenated OA (SV-OOA), and regional and long-range transported compounds (low volatile oxygenated OA, LV-OOA). BBOA was dominated by the fragments C 2 H 4 O 2 + and C 3 H 4 O 2 + (m/z 60.021 and 73.029) from levoglucosan, or other similar sugar components, comprising on average 32% of the BBOA mass concentration. The ratio between fragments C 2 H 4 O 2 + /C 3 H 4 O 2 + was significantly lower for CROA (=1.1) when compared to BBOA (=2.1), indicating that they consisted of different sugar compounds. In addition, a component containing substantial amount of nitrogen compounds (NOA) was observed in a sub-arctic region for the first time. The NOA contribution to OA ranged from 1% to 29% and elevated concentrations were observed when ambient relative humidity was high and the visibility low. Low solar radiation and temperature in wintertime were observed to influence the oxidation of compounds. A change in aerosol composition, with an increase of LV-OOA and decrease in BBOA, SV-OOA and NOA was noticed during the transition from wintertime to springtime. Size distribution measurements with high-time resolution enabled chemical characterization of externally mixed aerosol from different sources. Aged regional long-range transported aerosols were dominant at around 0.5 μm (vacuum aerodynamic diameter), whereas traffic and CROA emissions dominated at around 120 nm. Copyright 2014 American Association for Aerosol Research |
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Sueper, Donna Jimenez, Jose L. Worsnop, Douglas R. Carbone, Samara Aurela, Minna Saarnio, Karri Saarikoski, Sanna Timonen, Hilkka Frey, Anna Ulbrich, Ingrid M. Kulmala, Markku Hillamo, Risto E. |
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Wintertime Aerosol Chemistry in Sub-Arctic Urban Air |
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