Wintertime subarctic new particle formation from Kola Peninsula sulfur emissions
The metallurgical industry in the Kola Peninsula, north-west Russia, form, after Norilsk, Siberia, the second largest source of air pollution in the Arctic and subarctic domain. Sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ) emissions from the ore smelters are transported to wide areas, including Finnish Lapland. We perfor...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:8a0f43f75bb24cd789d8bb0c6e34a418 2023-05-15T15:08:20+02:00 Wintertime subarctic new particle formation from Kola Peninsula sulfur emissions M. Sipilä N. Sarnela K. Neitola T. Laitinen D. Kemppainen L. Beck E.-M. Duplissy S. Kuittinen T. Lehmusjärvi J. Lampilahti V.-M. Kerminen K. Lehtipalo P. P. Aalto P. Keronen E. Siivola P. A. Rantala D. R. Worsnop M. Kulmala T. Jokinen T. Petäjä 2021-12-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-17559-2021 https://doaj.org/article/8a0f43f75bb24cd789d8bb0c6e34a418 EN eng Copernicus Publications https://acp.copernicus.org/articles/21/17559/2021/acp-21-17559-2021.pdf https://doaj.org/toc/1680-7316 https://doaj.org/toc/1680-7324 doi:10.5194/acp-21-17559-2021 1680-7316 1680-7324 https://doaj.org/article/8a0f43f75bb24cd789d8bb0c6e34a418 Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Vol 21, Pp 17559-17576 (2021) Physics QC1-999 Chemistry QD1-999 article 2021 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-17559-2021 2022-12-31T09:03:55Z The metallurgical industry in the Kola Peninsula, north-west Russia, form, after Norilsk, Siberia, the second largest source of air pollution in the Arctic and subarctic domain. Sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ) emissions from the ore smelters are transported to wide areas, including Finnish Lapland. We performed investigations on concentrations of SO 2 , aerosol precursor vapours, aerosol and ion cluster size distributions together with chemical composition measurements of freshly formed clusters at the SMEAR I station in Finnish Lapland relatively close ( ∼ 300 km) to the Kola Peninsula industrial sites during the winter 2019–2020. We show that highly concentrated SO 2 from smelter emissions is converted to sulfuric acid (H 2 SO 4 ) in sufficient concentrations to drive new particle formation hundreds of kilometres downwind from the emission sources, even at very low solar radiation intensities. Observed new particle formation is primarily initiated by H 2 SO 4 –ammonia (negative-)ion-induced nucleation. Particle growth to cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) sizes was concluded to result from sulfuric acid condensation. However, air mass advection had a large role in modifying aerosol size distributions, and other growth mechanisms and condensation of other compounds cannot be fully excluded. Our results demonstrate the dominance of SO 2 emissions in controlling wintertime aerosol and CCN concentrations in the subarctic region with a heavily polluting industry. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic kola peninsula norilsk North-West Russia Subarctic Lapland Siberia Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Arctic Kola Peninsula Norilsk ENVELOPE(88.203,88.203,69.354,69.354) Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 21 23 17559 17576 |
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The metallurgical industry in the Kola Peninsula, north-west Russia, form, after Norilsk, Siberia, the second largest source of air pollution in the Arctic and subarctic domain. Sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ) emissions from the ore smelters are transported to wide areas, including Finnish Lapland. We performed investigations on concentrations of SO 2 , aerosol precursor vapours, aerosol and ion cluster size distributions together with chemical composition measurements of freshly formed clusters at the SMEAR I station in Finnish Lapland relatively close ( ∼ 300 km) to the Kola Peninsula industrial sites during the winter 2019–2020. We show that highly concentrated SO 2 from smelter emissions is converted to sulfuric acid (H 2 SO 4 ) in sufficient concentrations to drive new particle formation hundreds of kilometres downwind from the emission sources, even at very low solar radiation intensities. Observed new particle formation is primarily initiated by H 2 SO 4 –ammonia (negative-)ion-induced nucleation. Particle growth to cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) sizes was concluded to result from sulfuric acid condensation. However, air mass advection had a large role in modifying aerosol size distributions, and other growth mechanisms and condensation of other compounds cannot be fully excluded. Our results demonstrate the dominance of SO 2 emissions in controlling wintertime aerosol and CCN concentrations in the subarctic region with a heavily polluting industry. |
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M. Sipilä N. Sarnela K. Neitola T. Laitinen D. Kemppainen L. Beck E.-M. Duplissy S. Kuittinen T. Lehmusjärvi J. Lampilahti V.-M. Kerminen K. Lehtipalo P. P. Aalto P. Keronen E. Siivola P. A. Rantala D. R. Worsnop M. Kulmala T. Jokinen T. Petäjä |
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M. Sipilä N. Sarnela K. Neitola T. Laitinen D. Kemppainen L. Beck E.-M. Duplissy S. Kuittinen T. Lehmusjärvi J. Lampilahti V.-M. Kerminen K. Lehtipalo P. P. Aalto P. Keronen E. Siivola P. A. Rantala D. R. Worsnop M. Kulmala T. Jokinen T. Petäjä |
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Wintertime subarctic new particle formation from Kola Peninsula sulfur emissions |
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