Journal
ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT
Volume 102, Issue -, Pages 70-78Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2014.11.051
Keywords
Scavenging; Particles; Precipitation; Valley city
Funding
- National Basic Research Program of China [2013CB956004]
- Foundation for Excellent Youth Scholars of CAREERI, CAS [Y451311001]
- Hundred Talents Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences [29O827631]
- Lanzhou city Science and Technology Plan [2009KJLQ]
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To fill the blank information for aerosol precipitation-scavenging research in north-west of China, the aerosol particle and raindrop size distributions were measured simultaneously during 1 September 2012 to 31 August 2013 in urban Lanzhou. The scavenging coefficients of thunderstorm and non-thunderstorm rain and snow events were studied and presented on the basis of nine selected precipitation cases including 3 snow and 6 rain events. The variation of scavenging coefficients of snowfall across the size distribution clearly exhibited a trough of lower values for particles of 1000 nm-2000 nm in diameter, while the particles smaller than 500 nm were scavenged efficiently by non-thunderstorm rain, and thunderstorm rain more effectively scavenged the particles in 500-1000 nm. The snow scavenging coefficients varied between 3.11 x 10(-7) s(-1) and 1.18 x 10(-3) s(-1) in the 10-10,000 nm size range. The scavenging coefficients of thunderstorm (non-thunderstorm) rain were between 8.25 x 10(-7) s(-1) (7.48 x 10(-6) s(-1)) and 1.23 x 10(-3) s(-1) (7.46 x 10(-4) s(-1)). Additionally, the number of particles in 10-50 nm was more sensitive to duration of snow, while snowfall intensity was more responsible for particle number concentrations in 50-100 nm and 100-1000 nm. The longer period of precipitation with lower raindrop velocity can more effectively scavenge the particles in the size range of 10-50 nm. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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