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Summertime Aerosol over the West of Ireland Dominated by Secondary Aerosol during Long-Range Transport

by
Chunshui Lin
1,2,3,
Darius Ceburnis
1,
Ru-Jin Huang
1,2,3,*,
Francesco Canonaco
4,
André Stephan Henry Prévôt
4,
Colin O'Dowd
1,* and
Jurgita Ovadnevaite
1
1
School of Physics, Ryan Institute’s Centre for Climate and & Pollution Studies, and Marine Renewable Energy Ireland, National University of Ireland Galway, University Road, Galway H91 CF50, Ireland
2
State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology and Key Laboratory of Aerosol Chemistry and Physics, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an 710061, China
3
Center for Excellence in Quaternary Science and Global Change, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an 710061, China
4
Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), 5232 Villigen, Switzerland
*
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Atmosphere 2019, 10(2), 59; https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos10020059
Received: 18 January 2019 / Revised: 27 January 2019 / Accepted: 28 January 2019 / Published: 1 February 2019
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Aerosol Mass Spectrometry)
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The chemical composition and sources of non-refractory submicron aerosol (NR-PM1) on Galway, a west coast city of Ireland, were characterized using an aerosol chemical speciation monitor during summertime in June 2016. Organic aerosol (OA) was found to be the major part of NR-PM1 (54%), followed by secondary inorganic sulfate (25%), ammonium (11%), and nitrate (10%). Factor analysis revealed that oxygenated OA (OOA) was the dominant OA factor, on average accounting for 84% of the total OA. The remaining 16% of OA was attributed to primary peat burning associated with domestic heating activities. As a result, secondary organic and inorganic aerosol together accounted for 91% of the total NR-PM1, pointing to an aged aerosol population originating from secondary formation during long-range transport. Concentration-weighted trajectory analysis indicated that these secondary aerosols were mainly associated with easterly long-range transport from the UK and/or France. View Full-Text
Keywords: PM1; ACSM; air pollution sources; organic aerosol; source apportionment PM1; ACSM; air pollution sources; organic aerosol; source apportionment
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Lin, C.; Ceburnis, D.; Huang, R.-J.; Canonaco, F.; Prévôt, A.S.H.; O'Dowd, C.; Ovadnevaite, J. Summertime Aerosol over the West of Ireland Dominated by Secondary Aerosol during Long-Range Transport. Atmosphere 2019, 10, 59. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos10020059

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Lin C, Ceburnis D, Huang R-J, Canonaco F, Prévôt ASH, O'Dowd C, Ovadnevaite J. Summertime Aerosol over the West of Ireland Dominated by Secondary Aerosol during Long-Range Transport. Atmosphere. 2019; 10(2):59. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos10020059

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Lin, Chunshui; Ceburnis, Darius; Huang, Ru-Jin; Canonaco, Francesco; Prévôt, André S.H.; O'Dowd, Colin; Ovadnevaite, Jurgita. 2019. "Summertime Aerosol over the West of Ireland Dominated by Secondary Aerosol during Long-Range Transport" Atmosphere 10, no. 2: 59. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos10020059

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