Seasonal variations of elemental carbon in urban aerosols as measured by two common thermal-optical carbon methods

被引:23
作者
Bae, Min-Suk [1 ]
Schauer, James J. [1 ]
Turner, Jay R. [2 ]
Hopke, Philip K. [3 ]
机构
[1] Univ Wisconsin, Madison, WI USA
[2] Washington Univ, St Louis, MO USA
[3] Clarkson Univ, Ctr Air Resources Engn & Sci, Potsdam, NY USA
基金
美国国家环境保护局;
关键词
Comparison; ACE-Asia; NIOSH; IMPROVE; OC; EC; AIR-POLLUTION SOURCES; ORGANIC-COMPOUNDS; SOURCE APPORTIONMENT; PARTICULATE MATTER; EMISSIONS; PHASE; TEMPERATURE; MARKER; MASS; UNCERTAINTIES;
D O I
10.1016/j.scitotenv.2009.05.035
中图分类号
X [环境科学、安全科学];
学科分类号
08 ; 0830 ;
摘要
Two commonly employed laboratory-based elemental carbon (EC) and organic carbon (OC) thermal/optical methods for the analysis of ambient particulate matter were used to analyze 709 twenty-four hour integrated PM2.5 samples along with 76 field blanks from the St. Louis-Midwest Supersite in East St. Louis, Illinois. The two laboratory ECOC methods were the Aerosol Characterization Experiment-Asia (ACE-Asia) method based on National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH 5040) method and the Interagency Monitoring of Protected Visual Environments (IMPROVE) protocol. As in previous intercomparisons between these two methods, there was excellent agreement for total carbon (i.e. sum of EC and OC), but significant differences were observed in the split between the measured EC and OC The 709 daily PM2.5 samples spanned a time series of two years that allowed an assessment of seasonal relationships between the EC reported by the two methods. Seasonal average ACE-Asia and IMPROVE EC concentration values were highest in the fall and lowest in the spring. Differences between the seasonal average IMPROVE and ACE-Asia EC concentration values were about 40% greater in summer compared to winter. While IMPROVE EC values were always larger than ACE-Asia EC. the EC difference between these methods exhibited a strong seasonal variation with largest differences occurring in the spring and especially summer with the smallest differences in the fall and winter. Seasonal average EC differences (IMPROVE - ACE-Asia) were anti-correlated with molecular markers for biomass burning and mobile source emissions that had wintertime maximum concentrations. The EC difference between methods did have a moderate positive correlation with indicators of secondary organic aerosol and sulfate suggesting that oxidized organic aerosol associated with atmospheric processing or other secondary components of ambient aerosol could be associated with the seasonal differences between these EC measurements. Published by Elsevier B.V.
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页码:5176 / 5183
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