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Title
  • en Composition and major sources of organic compounds of aerosol particulate matter sampled during the ACE-Asia campaign
Creator
    • en Simoneit, Bernd R. T.
    • en Kobayashi, Minoru
    • en Mochida, Michihiro
    • en Lee, Meehye
    • en Lim, Ho-Jin
    • en Turpin, Barbara J.
    • en Komazaki, Yuichi
Accessrights open access
Rights
  • en An edited version of this paper was published by AGU. Copyright 2004 American Geophysical Union.
Subject
  • Other en levoglucosan
  • Other en glucose
  • Other en organic aerosols
  • Other en OC/EC
  • Other en carboxylic acids
  • Other en n-alkanes
  • Other en sucrose
  • Other en mycose
  • Other en saccharides
  • Other en atmospheric aerosols
  • Other en dicarboxylic acids
  • Other en PAHs
  • Other en hydrocarbons
  • Other en fatty acids
  • Other en alkanols
  • Other en ACE-Asia
  • NDC 451
Description
  • Abstract en The organic compound tracers of atmospheric particulate matter, as well as organic carbon (OC) and elemental carbon (EC), have been characterized for samples acquired during the ACEAsia campaign from Gosan, Jeju Island, Korea; Sapporo, Japan, and Chichi-jima Island in the western North Pacific, as well as on the NOAA R/V Ronald H. Brown. Total extracts were analyzed by GC-MS to determine both polar and aliphatic compounds. Total particles, organic matter and lipid and saccharide compounds were high during the Asian dust episode (early April 2001) compared to levels at other times. The organic matter can be apportioned to seven emission sources and to significant oxidation producing secondary products during long-range transport. Terrestrial natural background compounds are vascular plant wax lipids derived from direct emission and as part of desert sand dust. Fossil fuel utilization is obvious and derives from petroleum product and coal combustion emissions. Saccharides are a major polar (water-soluble) carbonaceous fraction derived from soil resuspension (agricultural activities). Biomass burning smoke is evident in all samples and seasons. It contributes up to 13% of the total compound mass as water-soluble constituents. Burning of refuse is another source of organic particles. Varying levels of marine-derived lipids are superimposed during aerosol transport over the ocean. Secondary oxidation products increase with increasing transport distance and time. The ACEAsia aerosols are comprised not only of desert dust, but also of soil dust, smoke from biomass and refuse burning, and emissions from fossil fuels use in urban areas.
Publisher en American Geophysical Union
Date
    Issued2004-09-17
Language
  • eng
Resource Type journal article
Version Type AM
Identifier HDL http://hdl.handle.net/2115/13703
Relation
  • isVersionOf DOI https://doi.org/10.1029/2004JD004598
Journal
    • PISSN 0148-0227
      • en Journal of Geophysical Research. Atmosphere
      • Volume Number109 Issue NumberD19 Page StartD19
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