Gas/particle partitioning and global distribution of polycyclic
aromatic hydrocarbons, a modelling approach

J 2009

Gas/particle partitioning and global distribution of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, a modelling approach

LAMMEL, Gerhard, Aissa M SEHILI, Tami C BOND, Johann FEICHTER, Hartmut GRASSL et. al.

Basic information

Original name

Gas/particle partitioning and global distribution of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, a modelling approach

Name in Czech

Gas/particle partitioning and global distribution of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, a modelling approach

Authors

LAMMEL, Gerhard (276 Germany, guarantor), Aissa M SEHILI (12 Algeria), Tami C BOND (840 United States of America), Johann FEICHTER (40 Austria) and Hartmut GRASSL (276 Germany)

Edition

Chemosphere, Oxford, Elsevier, 2009, 0045-6535

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

30304 Public and environmental health

Country of publisher

Germany

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

URL

Impact factor

Impact factor: 3.253

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14310/09:00035355

Organization unit

Faculty of Science

UT WoS

000266897200015

Keywords (in Czech)

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons Gas-particle partitioning Long-range transport Multicompartmental modelling

Keywords in English

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons Gas-particle partitioning Long-range transport Multicompartmental modelling

Abstract

ORIG CZ

V originále

The global atmospheric distribution and long-range transport (LRT) potential of three polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), anthracene, fluoranthene and benzo[a]pyrene, are studied. The model used is a global aerosol-chemistry-transport-model, which is based on an atmospheric general circulation model. The model includes an in-built dynamic aerosol model coupled to two-dimensional surface compartments. Several parameterisations of gas/particle partitioning and different assumptions of degradation in the aerosol particulate phase were tested. PAHs are mostly distributed in the source regions but reach the Arctic and the Antarctic. The Canadian Arctic is predicted to be significantly less affected by mid-latitude PAH emissions than the European Arctic. Re-volatilisation is significant for semivolatile PAHs. Accumulation of semivolatile PAHs in polar regions, however, is not indicated. The model study suggests that gas/particle partitioning in air drastically influences the atmospheric cycling, the total environmental fate (e.g. compartmental distributions) and the LRT potential of the substances studied. A parameterisation which calculates the gas/particle partitioning assuming absorption into organic matter and adsorption to black carbon (soot) agrees best with the observations at remote sites. The study provides evidence that the degradation in the particulate phase must be slower than that in the gas-phase. The predicted concentrations of the semivolatile PAHs anthracene and fluoranthene in near-ground air at remote sites in mid and high northern latitudes are in line with measured concentrations, if adsorption of the substances to soot combined with absorption in particulate organic matter is assumed to determine gas/particle partitioning, but cannot be explained by adsorption alone (Junge Pankow parameterisation of gas/particle partitioning). The results suggest that PAHs absorbed in the organic matrix of particulate matter is shielded from the gas-phase.

In Czech

The global atmospheric distribution and long-range transport (LRT) potential of three polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), anthracene, fluoranthene and benzo[a]pyrene, are studied.

Links

MSM0021622412, plan (intention)

Name: Interakce mezi chemickými látkami, prostředím a biologickými systémy a jejich důsledky na globální, regionální a lokální úrovni (INCHEMBIOL) (Acronym: INCHEMBIOL)

Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR, Interactions among the chemicals, environment and biological systems and their consequences on the global, regional and local scales (INCHEMBIOL)

Citovat

LAMMEL, Gerhard, Aissa M SEHILI, Tami C BOND, Johann FEICHTER and Hartmut GRASSL. Gas/particle partitioning and global distribution of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, a modelling approach. Chemosphere. Oxford: Elsevier, 2009, not specif, 10.03.2009, p. 2009.02.017, 9 pp. ISSN 0045-6535.

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LAMMEL, Gerhard, Aissa M SEHILI, Tami C BOND, Johann FEICHTER and Hartmut GRASSL. Gas/particle partitioning and global distribution of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, a modelling approach. \textit{Chemosphere}. Oxford: Elsevier, 2009, not specif, 10.03.2009, p.~2009.02.017, 9 pp. ISSN~0045-6535.

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