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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Volume 54, Issue 15, Pages 9243-9253Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.0c00972
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- Beijing Municipal Natural Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars [JQ19031]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21976006, 91544225, 21522701, 91844301, 41907185, 41375124]
- National Research Program for Key Issue in Air Pollution Control [DQGG0103-01]
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2018M641095, 2019T120023]
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Particulate nitrate (pNO(3)(-)) has often been found to be the major component of fine particles in urban air-sheds in China, the United States, and Europe during winter haze episodes in recent years. However, there is a lack of knowledge regarding the experimentally determined contribution of different chemical pathways to the formation of pNO(3)(-). Here, for the first time, we combine ground and tall-tower observations to quantify the chemical formation of pNO(3)(-) using observationally constrained model approach based on direct observations of OH and N2O5 for the urban air-shed. We find that the gas-phase oxidation pathway (OH+NO2) during the daytime is the dominant channel over the nocturnal uptake of N2O5 during pollution episodes, with percentages of 74% in urban areas and 76% in suburban areas. This is quite different from previous studies in some regions of the US, in which the uptake of N2O5 was concluded to account for a larger contribution in winter. These results indicate that the driving factor of nitrate pollution in Beijing and different regions of the US is different, as are the mitigation strategies for particulate nitrate.
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