Composition and mass size distribution of nitrated and
oxygenated aromatic compounds in ambient particulate matter
from southern and central Europe - implications for the origin

J 2020

Composition and mass size distribution of nitrated and oxygenated aromatic compounds in ambient particulate matter from southern and central Europe - implications for the origin

KITANOVSKI, Zoran, Pourya SHAHPOURY, Constantini SAMARA, Aristeidis VOLIOTIS, Gerhard LAMMEL et. al.

Basic information

Original name

Composition and mass size distribution of nitrated and oxygenated aromatic compounds in ambient particulate matter from southern and central Europe - implications for the origin

Authors

KITANOVSKI, Zoran (705 Slovenia), Pourya SHAHPOURY (276 Germany), Constantini SAMARA (300 Greece), Aristeidis VOLIOTIS (300 Greece) and Gerhard LAMMEL (276 Germany, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Göttingen, Germany, European Geosciences Union, 2020, 1680-7316

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

10509 Meteorology and atmospheric sciences

Country of publisher

Germany

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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Impact factor: 6.133

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14310/20:00116071

Organization unit

Faculty of Science

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-2471-2020

UT WoS

000518768800001

Keywords in English

HUMIC-LIKE SUBSTANCES; FUNCTIONALIZED CARBOXYLIC-ACIDS; LIQUID-PHASE MICROEXTRACTION; ORGANIC AEROSOLS; LIGHT-ABSORPTION; CHEMICAL-CHARACTERIZATION; ATMOSPHERIC PARTICLES; BROWN CARBON; BIOMASS MATERIALS; OXIDATIVE STRESS

Abstract

V originále

Nitro-monoaromatic hydrocarbons (NMAHs), such as nitrocatechols, nitrophenols and nitrosalicylic acids, are important constituents of atmospheric particulate matter (PM) water-soluble organic carbon (WSOC) and humic-like substances (HULIS). Nitrated and oxygenated derivatives of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (NPAHs and OPAHs) are toxic and ubiquitous in the ambient air; due to their light absorption properties, together with NMAHs, they are part of aerosol brown carbon (BrC). We investigated the winter concentrations of these substance classes in size-resolved PM from two urban sites in central and southern Europe, i.e. Mainz (MZ), Germany, and Thessaloniki (TK), Greece. The total concentration of 11 NMAHs (Sigma(11)NMAH concentrations) measured in PM10 and total PM were 0.51-8.38 and 12.1-72.1 ng m(-3) at the MZ and TK sites, respectively, whereas Sigma(7)OPAHs were 47-1636 and 858-4306 pg m(-3), and Sigma(8)NPAHs were <= 90 and 76-578 pg m(-3), respectively. NMAHs contributed 0.4% and 1.8% to the HULIS mass at MZ and TK, respectively. The mass size distributions of the individual substances generally peaked in the smallest or second smallest size fraction i.e. < 0.49 or 0.49-0.95 mu m. The mass median diameter (MMD) of NMAHs was 0.10 and 0.27 mu m at MZ and TK, respectively, while the MMDs of NPAHs and OPAHs were both 0.06 mu m at MZ and 0.12 and 0.10 mu m at TK. Correlation analysis between NMAHs, NPAHs, and OPAHs from one side and WSOC, HULIS, sulfate, and potassium from the other suggested that fresh biomass burning (BB) and fossil fuel combustion emissions dominated at the TK site, while aged air masses were predominant at the MZ site.

Citovat

KITANOVSKI, Zoran, Pourya SHAHPOURY, Constantini SAMARA, Aristeidis VOLIOTIS and Gerhard LAMMEL. Composition and mass size distribution of nitrated and oxygenated aromatic compounds in ambient particulate matter from southern and central Europe - implications for the origin. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. Göttingen, Germany: European Geosciences Union, 2020, vol. 20, No 4, p. 2471-2487. ISSN 1680-7316. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-2471-2020.

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KITANOVSKI, Zoran, Pourya SHAHPOURY, Constantini SAMARA, Aristeidis VOLIOTIS and Gerhard LAMMEL. Composition and mass size distribution of nitrated and oxygenated aromatic compounds in ambient particulate matter from southern and central Europe - implications for the origin. \textit{Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics}. Göttingen, Germany: European Geosciences Union, 2020, vol.~20, No~4, p.~2471-2487. ISSN~1680-7316. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-2471-2020.

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