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ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION RESEARCH
Volume 7, Issue 2, Pages 348-354Publisher
TURKISH NATL COMMITTEE AIR POLLUTION RES & CONTROL-TUNCAP
DOI: 10.1016/j.apr.2015.10.002
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Fine particulate mercury (PHg); Haze; PM2.5; PM10
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21177087, 21577090]
- Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology 973 Project [2013CB430005]
- National Research Foundation (NRF), Prime Minister's Office, Singapore under Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE) program
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Concentrations of fine particulate mercury (PHg), particulate matter <= 2.5 mm (PM2.5), and particulate matter <= 10 mm (PM10) were monitored for the whole year of 2013 in Shanghai, China. The average concentrations of PHg were 1270 +/- 716 pg/m(3) and 341 +/- 187 pg/m(3) during haze and non-haze days respectively. The average PHg concentration throughout the whole year 2013 was 642 +/- 616 pg/m(3). It was observed that PHg concentrations on haze days were 3 times higher than on non-haze days. The concentration of PHg on non-haze days in 2013 varied from 0.25 to 0.48 ng/m(3). The mean monthly PHg concentration was highest in December (1.92 ng/m(3)), while the minimum mean concentration was observed in February and August (0.80 ng/m(3)), and there was a clear seasonal variation: winter (1.67 ng/m(3)), autumn (1.08 ng/m(3)), spring (1.02 ng/m(3)), and summer (1.00 ng/m(3)) during haze days. The correlation between PHg and PM2.5 was strong (r = 0.96 on haze days; r = 0.90 on non-haze days), while the correlation between PHg and PM10 was weaker (r = 0.85 on haze days; r = 0.57 on non-haze days). The PHg concentration on haze days was always higher than on non-haze days, indicating that haze conditions were accelerating the formation of PHg. The result also indicated that PHg was inclined to combine with fine particles. The existence of strong correlations between the concentrations of PM2.5, PM10, and PHg indicated the commonality of the contributing sources, such as traffic, industrial emissions, and the combustion of coal. Copyright (C) 2015 Turkish National Committee for Air Pollution Research and Control. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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