DOI: 10.1002/2014JD022171
论文题名: Nocturnal loss of NOx during the 2010 CalNex-LA study in the Los Angeles Basin
作者: Tsai C. ; Wong C. ; Hurlock S. ; Pikelnaya O. ; Mielke L.H. ; Osthoff H.D. ; Flynn J.H. ; Haman C. ; Lefer B. ; Gilman J. ; De Gouw J. ; Stutz J.
刊名: Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
ISSN: 2169897X
出版年: 2014
卷: 119, 期: 22 起始页码: 13004
结束页码: 13025
语种: 英语
英文关键词: CalNex
; nocturnal air pollution
; nocturnal NOx chemistry
Scopus关键词: altitude
; atmospheric chemistry
; nitrogen oxides
; nocturnal boundary layer
; vertical mixing
; California
; Los Angeles Basin
; United States
英文摘要: The chemical removal of NOx at night in urban areas remains poorly constrained due to uncertainties in the contribution of various loss pathways and the impact of the suppressed nocturnal vertical mixing. Here we present long-path differential optical absorption spectroscopy observations of nocturnal vertical concentration profiles of O3, NO2, and NO3 in the lower atmosphere (33-556 m above ground level) measured during the CalNex-LA 2010 study. Positive nocturnal vertical gradients of O3 and NO3 and negative gradients of NO2 were observed during the night. Relatively short lifetime of nocturnal NO3 (less than 1000 s) and high nighttime steady state N2O5 mixing ratios (up to 2 ppb) indicated active nocturnal chemistry during CalNex. Comparison of modeled and observed altitude-resolved NO3 loss frequencies shows that hydrolysis of N2O5 on aerosols was the dominant loss pathway of NO3 and NOx. Based on this argument, the nocturnal loss rates of NOx, L(NOx), at different altitudes and averaged over the lowest 550 m of the atmosphere were calculated. The nocturnally averaged L(NOx) ranged between 0.8 and 1.3 ppb h-1 for the lower atmosphere with the L(NOx) for the first 8 days at about 1 ppb h-1. This number is close to the one previously determined in Houston in 2009 of ~0.9 ppb h-1. Comparisons between daytime NOx loss due to the OH + NO2 reaction and nighttime L(NOx) show that during CalNex, nocturnal chemistry contributed an average of 60% to the removal of NOx in a 24 h period in the lower atmosphere. ©2014. American Geophysical Union. All Rights Reserved. Citation statistics:
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/63046
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作者单位: Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States; Department of Chemistry, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada; Department of Chemistry, University of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN, United States; Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States; Chemical Sciences Division, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States
Recommended Citation:
Tsai C.,Wong C.,Hurlock S.,et al. Nocturnal loss of NOx during the 2010 CalNex-LA study in the Los Angeles Basin[J]. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres,2014-01-01,119(22)