Temporal variation of water-soluble ions of free tropospheric aerosol particles over central Japan

K. Osada; M. Kido; C. Nishita; K. Matsunaga; Y. Iwasaka; M. Nagatani; H. Nakada

doi:10.1111/j.1600-0889.2007.00296.x

Temporal variation of water-soluble ions of free tropospheric aerosol particles over central Japan

Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology

Volume 59 (2007): Issue 4

By: K. Osada, M. Kido, C. Nishita, K. Matsunaga, Y. Iwasaka, M. Nagatani and H. Nakada

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|Jan 2007

Abstract

Free tropospheric aerosol particles were collected at Mt. Norikura (36.1°N, 137.5°E, 2770 m a.s.l.) in Japan during May.October in 2001 and 2002. An automated sequential daily nighttime (00-06 a.m.) sampler collected free tropospheric aerosols. Average, median, SD, minimum and maximum concentrations of total ionic weight of the 114 samples were, respectively, 3.9, 2.8, 3.7, 0.2 and 23.2 μg m^-3 Transport conditions were analysed using backward air trajectory with precipitation amounts along the trajectory. Results suggest that low aerosol mass concentration causes are (1) descending trajectories and (2) precipitation scavenging during transport without contacting boundary layer atmosphere until arrival. It is suggested that, without precipitation scavenging after entrainment into the free troposphere, aerosol transport from active emissions at the surface enhances mass concentration at Mt. Norikura.

Average concentrations of NO₃ ^-, non-sea-salt (nss)K⁺ and C₂O₄ ^2- are high in March.June and low in winter. The highest average nssSO₄ ^2-. concentration occurs in summer; it is high from spring through fall. Seasonal variation of NH₄ ⁺ concentrations resembles that of nss SO₄ ^2-, but the concentrations molar ratio (NH₄ +/nssSO₄ ^2-) is high (ca. 2) in spring and decreases to 1 in winter. Seasonal variation of NH₄ ⁺ + NH₃ concentration agrees with that of NH₃ emissions in China.

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