Journal
ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH
Volume 167, Issue -, Pages 208-215Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2015.08.007
Keywords
PM2.5; Rural site; Pearl River Delta region; LPDM; Source region
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- Guangdong-National Natural Science Foundation of China [U1033301]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41105083, 41275130, 41105084]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [2014ZZ0054]
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A 1-year campaign was conducted in the rural area of Guangzhou, a megacity in southern China, to collect fine particulate matter (PM2.5) from March 2012 to February 2013. The mass concentrations of PM2.5 and the major chemical components including 6 water-soluble ions, organic carbon (OC), elemental carbon (EC), and 13 additional elements were measured. The annual average concentration of PM2.5 was 44.2 +/- 25.8 mu g/m(3). Sulfate was the most dominant component, accounting for 28.6% of PM2.5, followed by organic matter (21.9%). Both sea salt and crustal material accounted for only a small fraction of PM2.5 (<5%). Seasonal enhancement of PM2.5 was observed in autumn 2012, especially with high-PM2.5 events (more than 100 mu g/m(3)) in October. The backward Lagrangian particle dispersion modeling (LPDM) and the cluster analysis of the back-trajectories indicate that the northern area is an important source region of long-range transport. An enhancement of PM2.5 as well as sulfate, OC, and EC was observed in the samples with the influence of northern air masses. However, the footprint retroplume of the samples shows that the sources in the Pearl River Delta Region should also be considered, especially secondary aerosol formation and biomass/biofuel burning. Two high-PM2.5 case studies show that both local and long-range transport can play important roles in the PM2.5 elevation episode. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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