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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Volume 53, Issue 6, Pages 2990-3000Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.8b06358
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41575106]
- Science and Technology Plan Project of Guangdong Province of China [2015A020215020, 2017A050506003]
- NSFC/RGC [N_HKUST631/05]
- Fok Ying Tung Graduate School [NRC06/07.SC01]
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Variations in aerosol characteristics play an essential role in satellite remote sensing of PM2.5 concentrations. The lack of measurement of aerosol characteristics, however, limits the assessment of their effects. This study presented an observation-based model that directly considered the effects of aerosol characteristics. In this model, we used an integrated humidity coefficient (gamma') and an integrated reference value (K) to delineate the effects of aerosol characteristics. We then investigated the effects of the long-term variations in aerosol characteristics on satellite remote sensing of PM2.5 concentration in Hong Kong from 2004 to 2012. The results show that the gamma' value peaked in 2009 because the percentages of highly hygroscopic components (e.g., sulfate and nitrate) in aerosols reached their peaks. The K value increased from 2004 to 2011 because of the increasing percentages of strong light-extinction components (e.g., organic matter) and the decreasing fine mode fraction in aerosols. The accuracy of PM2.5 retrieval improved greatly after accounting for the long-term variations in aerosol characteristics (e.g., correlation coefficient increased from 0.56 to 0.80). The results underscore the need to incorporate the variations in aerosol characteristics in the PM2.5 estimation models.
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