Influence of meteorological conditions and seasonality on PM1 and organic aerosol sources at a rural background site

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/86652079:_____/25:00603487 RIV/00020699:_____/25:N0000029 RIV/00216208:11310/25:10498675

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1352231025000032?via%3Dihub" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1352231025000032?via%3Dihub</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2025.121028" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.atmosenv.2025.121028</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Influence of meteorological conditions and seasonality on PM1 and organic aerosol sources at a rural background site

Original language description

Organic aerosols (OA) are a main component of PM2.5 (20-90%), which contains thousands of compounds. Thus, the formation processes and sources of OA remain poorly understood. In this study, the seasonal and diurnal variabilities of submicron PM chemical composition (both inorganic and organic aerosols) and OA sources were characterized by aerosol mass spectrometry (AMS) and anaethalometer at a rural background site in the Czech Republic (National Atmospheric Observatory Košetice – NAOK) from January to October 2019. The effects of meteorological conditions and local, regional, and long-range atmospheric transport influences in Central Europe were also studied. The overall average submicron PM concentration was 9.26 ± 5.88 μg m−3. Using positive matrix factorization (PMF) analysis, we identified four OA factors for summer and five for all other seasons. Three factors were associated with primary sources of OA (POA): hydrocarbon-like OA (HOA), biomass burning OA (BBOA), and OA from coal burning (CCOA, absent in summer), the CCOA factor enabling a better description of the residential heating effect on the background station in Central Europe. Two remaining factors represented oxygenated OA (OOA) sources: less oxidized OOA (LO-OOA) and more oxidized OOA (MO-OOA).Higher pollution episodes of submicron PM and all OA sources were predominantly associated with continental air masses. The effect of dispersion conditions, as assessed by the ventilation index (VI) and not yet been studied at a rural background site, proved to be a critical factor. The extension of the number of primary factors to include CCOA in PMF analysis, together with the reflection of the influence of seasonality, air mass origin and changes in meteorology, especially dispersion conditions, has elucidated the origin and fate of OA in the atmosphere at this type of European background stations.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10509 - Meteorology and atmospheric sciences

Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Atmospheric Environment

ISSN

1352-2310

e-ISSN

1873-2844

Volume of the periodical

344

Issue of the periodical within the volume

March 1 2025

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

121028

UT code for WoS article

001420308800001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85214699745