SHAHPOURY, Pourya, Zoran KITANOVSKI and Gerhard LAMMEL. Snow scavenging and phase partitioning of nitrated and oxygenated aromatic hydrocarbons in polluted and remote environments in central Europe and the European Arctic. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. Göttingen, Germany: European Geosciences Union, 2018, vol. 18, No 18, p. 13495-13510. ISSN 1680-7316. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-13495-2018.
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Original name Snow scavenging and phase partitioning of nitrated and oxygenated aromatic hydrocarbons in polluted and remote environments in central Europe and the European Arctic
Authors SHAHPOURY, Pourya (276 Germany), Zoran KITANOVSKI (705 Slovenia) and Gerhard LAMMEL (276 Germany, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
Edition Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Göttingen, Germany, European Geosciences Union, 2018, 1680-7316.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 10509 Meteorology and atmospheric sciences
Country of publisher Germany
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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Impact factor Impact factor: 5.668
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14310/18:00101686
Organization unit Faculty of Science
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-13495-2018
UT WoS 000445398900001
Keywords in English CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS-SPECTROMETRY; ATMOSPHERIC PARTICULATE MATTER; FREE-ENERGY RELATIONSHIPS; BIOMASS-BURNING AEROSOL; ORGANIC-COMPOUNDS; BROWN CARBON; AMBIENT AIR; NITRO-PAH; POLYCHLORINATED-BIPHENYLS; CHEMICAL-IONIZATION
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Abstract
Nitrated and oxygenated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (N/OPAHs) are emitted in combustion processes and formed in polluted air. Their environmental cycling through wet deposition has hardly been studied. Fresh snow samples at urban and rural sites in central Europe, as well as surface snow from a remote site in Svalbard, were analysed for 17 NPAHs, 8 OPAHs, and 11 nitrated mono-aromatic hydrocarbons (NMAHs), of which most N/OPAHs as well as nitrocatechols, nitrosalicylic acids, and 4-nitroguaiacol are studied for the first time in precipitation. In order to better understand the scavenging mechanisms, the particulate mass fractions (theta) at 273 K were predicted using a multi-phase gasparticle partitioning model based on polyparameter linear free energy relationships. Sigma NPAH concentrations were 1.217.6 and 8.8-19.1 ng L-1 at urban and rural sites, whereas EOPAHs were 79.8-955.2 and 343.3-1757.4 ng L-1 at these sites, respectively. 9,10-anthraquinone was predominant in snow aqueous and particulate phases. NPAHs were only found in the particulate phase with 9-nitroanthracene being predominant followed by 2-nitrofluoranthene. Among NMAHs, 4-nitrophenol showed the highest abundance in both phases. The levels found for nitrophenols were in the same range or lower than those reported in the 1980s and 1990s. The lowest levels of Sigma N/OPAHs and Sigma NMAHs were found at the remote site (3.5 and 390.5 ng L-1, respectively). N/OPAHs preferentially partitioned in snow particulate phase in accordance with predicted theta, whereas NMAHs were predominant in the aqueous phase, regardless of theta. It is concluded that the phase distribution of non-polar N/OPAHs in snow is determined by their gas-particle partitioning prior to snow scavenging, whereas that for polar particulate phase substances, i.e. NMAHs, is determined by an interplay between gas-particle partitioning in the aerosol and dissolution during in- or below-cloud scavenging.
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GA16-11537S, research and development projectName: Transformační produkty mono- a polyaromatických uhlovodíků v atmosferických aerosolech – prioritní nebezpečné polutanty
Investor: Czech Science Foundation
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