New insights on humic-like substances associated with
wintertime urban aerosols from central and southern Europe:
Size-resolved chemical characterization and optical properties

J 2017

New insights on humic-like substances associated with wintertime urban aerosols from central and southern Europe: Size-resolved chemical characterization and optical properties

VOLIOTIS, Aristeidis, Roman PROKEŠ, Gerhard LAMMEL and Constantini SAMARA

Basic information

Original name

New insights on humic-like substances associated with wintertime urban aerosols from central and southern Europe: Size-resolved chemical characterization and optical properties

Authors

VOLIOTIS, Aristeidis (300 Greece), Roman PROKEŠ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Gerhard LAMMEL (276 Germany, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Constantini SAMARA (300 Greece)

Edition

Atmospheric Environment, OXFORD, PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2017, 1352-2310

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

10511 Environmental sciences

Country of publisher

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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URL

Impact factor

Impact factor: 3.708

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14310/17:00095520

Organization unit

Faculty of Science

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2017.07.024

UT WoS

000411298800026

Keywords in English

Aerosols; HULIS Ionic species; FTIR functional group analysis; UV-Vis light absorption; WSOC

Abstract

V originále

Although Humic-Like Substances (HULIS) are important contributors to the mass of organic aerosol in airborne particulate matter (PM), little is known about their chemical composition, while, their size resolved optical properties have not been studied yet. Here, HULIS fractions were isolated from size resolved aerosol samples (<= 0.49, 0.49-0.95, 0.95-3 and 3-10 mu m) collected in urban and suburban environments of four European cities during wintertime. The bulk (i.e., sum of all size fractions) concentration of HULIS ranged between 1.29 and 2.80 mu g m(-3) across sites with highest values in the <= 0.49 pm particle size fraction. The contribution of the carbon mass of HULIS (HULIS-C) to the watersoluble organic carbon content (WSOC) of PM was 32-43%, which is typical for urban sites affected by biomass burning. The Mass Absorption Efficiency (MAE), which characterizes the efficiency of absorbing solar energy per carbon mass of HULIS decreased with particle size, suggesting that the finest size fractions contain more light-absorbing chromophores, which could affect the light-absorbing ability of organic aerosols. The good correlation of HULIS with effective biomass tracers such as K+, as well as with secondary inorganic aerosol components, proposed that HULIS had both primary (i.e., biomass burning) and secondary sources. The Fourier Transfer Infrared coupled to Attenuation Total Reflectance (FTIR-ATR) spectra demonstrated prevalence of aromatic over carboxylic functional groups in most HULIS fractions, indicating contribution from coal combustion emissions in addition to fresh biomass burning.

Links

GA16-11537S, research and development project

Name: Transformační produkty mono- a polyaromatických uhlovodíků v atmosferických aerosolech – prioritní nebezpečné polutanty

Investor: Czech Science Foundation

Citovat

VOLIOTIS, Aristeidis, Roman PROKEŠ, Gerhard LAMMEL and Constantini SAMARA. New insights on humic-like substances associated with wintertime urban aerosols from central and southern Europe: Size-resolved chemical characterization and optical properties. Atmospheric Environment. OXFORD: PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2017, vol. 166, October, p. 286-299. ISSN 1352-2310. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2017.07.024.

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VOLIOTIS, Aristeidis, Roman PROKEŠ, Gerhard LAMMEL and Constantini SAMARA. New insights on humic-like substances associated with wintertime urban aerosols from central and southern Europe: Size-resolved chemical characterization and optical properties. \textit{Atmospheric Environment}. OXFORD: PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2017, vol.~166, October, p.~286-299. ISSN~1352-2310. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2017.07.024.

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