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FRONTIERS IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
Volume 10, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fenvs.2022.897555
Keywords
China-Indochina Peninsula; passive air sampler; nitrate aerosols; nitrogen; oxygen isotope; source apportionment
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Funding
- Natural Science Foundation of China [41977190]
- Alliance of International Science Organizations [ANSO-CR-KP-2021-05]
- Guangdong Foundation for Program of Science and Technology Research [2019B121205006, 2020B1212060053]
- Guangzhou Foundation for Program of Science and Technology Research [202102080251]
- Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation [2021A1515011456]
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This study demonstrates the feasibility of using quartz wool disk passive air samplers to identify and quantify nitrate concentrations and their isotopic compositions. The results show that nitrate concentration is largely influenced by regional economic development, while the regional distribution of nitrate isotopes is affected by source changes. Coal combustion and mobile sources contribute significantly to nitrate in urban areas, while biomass burning and biogenic soil emissions are more important in regions with high natural productivity and intensive agricultural activities.
The formation processes and potential sources of particulate nitrate can be revealed by nitrogen (delta N-15-NO3-) and oxygen (delta O-18-NO3-) isotopes; however, the linkage and comparative information over a large scale is limited. In this work, the feasibility of using quartz wool disk passive air samplers (Pas-QW) to identify and quantify the nitrate concentrations and their isotopic compositions was demonstrated. The results of a simultaneous sampling campaign from March to June showed that the NO3- concentration was largely attributed to the development of the regional economies. The regional distribution of delta N-15-NO3- values was due to the source changes. The decreasing trend of delta O-18-NO3- values with latitude from south to north was mainly a combination of oxygen isotopic fractionation of the oxidant induced by natural factors and anthropogenic changes in O-3 concentrations. Coal combustion (CC) and mobile sources (MS) have a significant contribution to NOx in the typical urban agglomerations, while the high contribution from biomass burning (BB) and biogenic soil emission (BS) was mainly in areas with high natural productivity and intensive agricultural activities. By allowing simultaneous monitoring at multiple sites and over extended periods, passive sampling complements existing techniques for studying nitrate aerosol, and the results can provide a reference for the spatial distribution of its sources and formation in the China-Indochina Peninsula (CICP).
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