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项目编号 | NE/S000518/1 |
Atmospheric reactive nitrogen cycling over the ocean | |
Lucy Jane Carpenter | |
主持机构 | University of York |
项目开始年 | 2018 |
2018-10-01 | |
项目结束日期 | 2021-09-30 |
资助机构 | UK-NERC |
项目类别 | Research Grant |
项目经费 | 618334(GBP) |
国家 | 英国 |
语种 | 英语 |
英文摘要 | Atmospheric chemical processing drives the removal of emitted pollutants, and leads to the formation of ozone and secondary aerosol, which are harmful to human and environmental health, and contribute to climate forcing. Quantitative understanding of such chemistry is essential for the accurate prediction of current air quality and future atmospheric composition. In the troposphere, gaseous chemical processing is critically dependent upon the abundance of nitrogen oxides (NOx, NO + NO2), which regulate atmospheric oxidising capacity, ozone formation and the major components of many aerosol particles. Globally, the dominant NOx sources are all continental (traffic, power generation, industry, soil emissions of NO); these are well understood in some locations, but are very uncertain and rapidly increasing in developing nations, particularly African megacities. Once in the atmosphere, NOx is converted to reservoir compounds such as PAN, which may release NOx after transport, and ultimately into nitric acid (HNO3) on timescales of days. Current understanding is that HNO3 is the final atmospheric sink for NOx, and is removed from the atmosphere by deposition. Consequently, at remote marine sites a number of days transit time from the coast, we would expect NOx levels to be very low, and the inorganic nitrogen budget to be dominated by unreactive transported HNO3. Recent observations challenge this understanding: surprisingly high levels of NOx species, and HONO (a NOx precursor with a lifetime of a few minutes) have been observed over the tropical Atlantic ocean. This points to a missing source of HONO and NOx. It has been hypothesised that the photolytic conversion of particle-bound nitrate to gaseous HONO and NO2 may account for these observations and form the missing NOx source - a mechanism termed "renoxification" (Ye et al., Nature 2016). We have performed proof-of-concept measurements and modelling of HONO and NOx levels at the Cape Verde observatory in the tropical Atlantic, which we have found to be consistent with this mechanism (Reed et al., ACP, 2017) - however, order of magnitude uncertainties over the rate and products of particle nitrate photolysis remain, and observational evidence for its occurrence on dominant aerosol species (dust, sulfate aerosol) is missing, meaning that impacts on the global-scale are unknown. This project aims to address these uncertainties, through integrating existing ground-based, aircraft and satellite observations with targeted new field and laboratory studies. We will focus upon a natural laboratory, the tropical Atlantic region where we will probe the emissions and evolution of nitrogen species in the outflow of polluted air from the developing regions of West Africa to the clean marine environment of the mid Atlantic (Cape Verde Observatory, CVO). Specifically, we will (1) Use the tropical Atlantic as a natural laboratory to study renoxification during different seasons and aerosol regimes, alongside laboratory studies to parameterise the particulate nitrate photolysis process; (2) integrate this new understanding into a global chemistry-transport model to evaluate the recycling and transformations of NOx during transport, and hence the impacts of these process in the tropical Atlantic ocean, and upon our understanding of atmospheric chemical processing globally. |
来源学科分类 | Natural Environment Research |
文献类型 | 项目 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/87389 |
专题 | 环境与发展全球科技态势 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Lucy Jane Carpenter.Atmospheric reactive nitrogen cycling over the ocean.2018. |
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