Articles | Volume 18, issue 16
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-11647-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-11647-2018
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16 Aug 2018
Research article |  | 16 Aug 2018

Nitrogen isotope fractionation during gas-to-particle conversion of NOx to NO3 in the atmosphere – implications for isotope-based NOx source apportionment

Yunhua Chang, Yanlin Zhang, Chongguo Tian, Shichun Zhang, Xiaoyan Ma, Fang Cao, Xiaoyan Liu, Wenqi Zhang, Thomas Kuhn, and Moritz F. Lehmann

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We demonstrate that it is imperative that future studies, making use of isotope mixing models to gain conclusive constraints on the source partitioning of atmospheric NOx, consider this N isotope fractionation. Future assessments of NOx emissions in China (and elsewhere) should involve simultaneous δ15N and δ18O measurements of atmospheric nitrate and NOx at high spatiotemporal resolution, allowing former N-isotope-based NOx source partitioning estimates to be reevaluated more quantitatively.
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