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Research article
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26 Feb 2020
Research article |
| 26 Feb 2020
| 26 Feb 2020
Mutual promotion between aerosol particle liquid water and particulate nitrate enhancement leads to severe nitrate-dominated particulate matter pollution and low visibility
State Key Joint Laboratory of Environmental Simulation and Pollution
Control, College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking
University, Beijing, 100871, China
Centre for Atmospheric Science, School of Earth and Environmental
Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK
Ying Chen
Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1
4YQ, UK
Zhijun Wu
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
State Key Joint Laboratory of Environmental Simulation and Pollution
Control, College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking
University, Beijing, 100871, China
International Joint Laboratory for Regional Pollution Control, 52425
Jülich, Germany, and Beijing, 100871, China
Collaborative Innovation Center of Atmospheric Environment and
Equipment Technology, Nanjing University of Information Science and
Technology, Nanjing, 210044, China
Dongjie Shang
State Key Joint Laboratory of Environmental Simulation and Pollution
Control, College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking
University, Beijing, 100871, China
Yuxuan Bian
State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather, Chinese Academy of
Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, 100081, China
Zhuofei Du
State Key Joint Laboratory of Environmental Simulation and Pollution
Control, College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking
University, Beijing, 100871, China
now at: The Center of Urban Transport Emission Research and State
Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Urban Ambient Air Particulate
Matter Pollution Prevention and Control, College of Environmental Science
and Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, China
Sebastian H. Schmitt
International Joint Laboratory for Regional Pollution Control, 52425
Jülich, Germany, and Beijing, 100871, China
Institute for Energy and Climate Research IEK-8: Troposphere,
Forschungszentrum Jülich, 52425 Jülich, Germany
now at: TSI GmbH, 52068 Aachen, Germany
Rong Su
State Key Joint Laboratory of Environmental Simulation and Pollution
Control, College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking
University, Beijing, 100871, China
now at: Guangdong Science and Technology Monitoring and Research
Center, Guangzhou, 510033, China
Georgios I. Gkatzelis
International Joint Laboratory for Regional Pollution Control, 52425
Jülich, Germany, and Beijing, 100871, China
Institute for Energy and Climate Research IEK-8: Troposphere,
Forschungszentrum Jülich, 52425 Jülich, Germany
now at: NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado
80305, USA
now at: Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences,
Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA
Patrick Schlag
International Joint Laboratory for Regional Pollution Control, 52425
Jülich, Germany, and Beijing, 100871, China
Institute for Energy and Climate Research IEK-8: Troposphere,
Forschungszentrum Jülich, 52425 Jülich, Germany
now at: Shimadzu Deutschland GmbH, 47269 Duisburg, Germany
Thorsten Hohaus
International Joint Laboratory for Regional Pollution Control, 52425
Jülich, Germany, and Beijing, 100871, China
Institute for Energy and Climate Research IEK-8: Troposphere,
Forschungszentrum Jülich, 52425 Jülich, Germany
Aristeidis Voliotis
Centre for Atmospheric Science, School of Earth and Environmental
Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK
Keding Lu
State Key Joint Laboratory of Environmental Simulation and Pollution
Control, College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking
University, Beijing, 100871, China
International Joint Laboratory for Regional Pollution Control, 52425
Jülich, Germany, and Beijing, 100871, China
Collaborative Innovation Center of Atmospheric Environment and
Equipment Technology, Nanjing University of Information Science and
Technology, Nanjing, 210044, China
Limin Zeng
State Key Joint Laboratory of Environmental Simulation and Pollution
Control, College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking
University, Beijing, 100871, China
International Joint Laboratory for Regional Pollution Control, 52425
Jülich, Germany, and Beijing, 100871, China
Chunsheng Zhao
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, School of Physics,
Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China
M. Rami Alfarra
Centre for Atmospheric Science, School of Earth and Environmental
Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK
National Centre for Atmospheric Science, School of Earth and
Environmental Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL,
UK
Gordon McFiggans
Centre for Atmospheric Science, School of Earth and Environmental
Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK
Alfred Wiedensohler
Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, 04318 Leipzig, Germany
Astrid Kiendler-Scharr
International Joint Laboratory for Regional Pollution Control, 52425
Jülich, Germany, and Beijing, 100871, China
Institute for Energy and Climate Research IEK-8: Troposphere,
Forschungszentrum Jülich, 52425 Jülich, Germany
Yuanhang Zhang
State Key Joint Laboratory of Environmental Simulation and Pollution
Control, College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking
University, Beijing, 100871, China
International Joint Laboratory for Regional Pollution Control, 52425
Jülich, Germany, and Beijing, 100871, China
Collaborative Innovation Center of Atmospheric Environment and
Equipment Technology, Nanjing University of Information Science and
Technology, Nanjing, 210044, China
State Key Joint Laboratory of Environmental Simulation and Pollution
Control, College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking
University, Beijing, 100871, China
International Joint Laboratory for Regional Pollution Control, 52425
Jülich, Germany, and Beijing, 100871, China
Collaborative Innovation Center of Atmospheric Environment and
Equipment Technology, Nanjing University of Information Science and
Technology, Nanjing, 210044, China
Model code and software
E-AIM model Simon L. Clegg, Peter Brimblecombe, and Anthony S. Wexler http://www.aim.env.uea.ac.uk/aim/aim.php
Short summary
Severe haze events, with high particulate nitrate (pNO3−) burden, frequently prevail in Beijing. In this study, we demonstrate a mutual-promotion effect between aerosol water uptake and pNO3− formation backed up by theoretical calculations and field observations throughout a typical pNO3−-dominated haze event in Beijing wintertime. This self-amplified mutual-promotion effect between aerosol water content and particulate nitrate can rapidly deteriorate air quality and degrade visibility.
Severe haze events, with high particulate nitrate (pNO3−) burden, frequently prevail in Beijing....
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