Journal article
Effects of dry deposition on the concentration-distributions of atmospheric pollutants within land- and sea-breeze circulations
Atmospheric environment, Vol.20(10), pp.1999-2010
1986
DOI: 10.1016/0004-6981(86)90341-0
Abstract
In a land- and sea-breeze situation, effects of dry deposition on the dynamics of the concentrations of chemically reacting air pollutants are investigated using a transport/transformation/removal model with diurnally varying deposition velocities modeled in terms of the aerodynamic, surface, and residual resistances. The results show that the diurnally varying flows and eddy diffusivities, which are characteristic of the landand sea-breeze system, transfer the effects of dry deposition on the concentrations quickly to the upper layer over the land and sea surfaces. The dry deposition effect on one species can be transmitted to others through the network of chemical reactions, e.g. inclusion of dry deposition into the simulation resulted in the increase of hydrocarbon concentrations. It is also predicted that the dry deposition processes could remove a considerable part of emitted NO
x
, and SO
2 from the local circulations, e.g. for 2 days about 40% of the emitted NO
x
was removed by the dry deposition of NO, NO
2, HNO
3 and PAN and in the case of SO
2, 25 % by that of SO
2 and SO
4
2−.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Effects of dry deposition on the concentration-distributions of atmospheric pollutants within land- and sea-breeze circulations
- Creators
- Toshihiro Kitada - Department of Regional Planning, Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi 440, JapanGregory R Carmichael - Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, U.S.ALeonard K Peters - Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506, U.S.A
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Atmospheric environment, Vol.20(10), pp.1999-2010
- Publisher
- Elsevier B.V
- DOI
- 10.1016/0004-6981(86)90341-0
- ISSN
- 0004-6981
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 1986
- Academic Unit
- Civil and Environmental Engineering; Chemical and Biochemical Engineering; Nursing
- Record Identifier
- 9984004082802771
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