Using aerosol light abosrption measurements for the quantitative determination of wood burning and traffic emission contribution to particulate matter

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 3316-3323

  Sandradewi, Jisca ^a   Prévôt, Andre S H ^a   Szidat, Sönke ^a,b   Perron, Nolwenn ^a   Alfarra, M Rami ^a   Lanz, Valentin A ^c   Weingartner, Ernest ^a   Baltensperger, U R S ^a  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL LIGHT ABSORPTIONS; AEROSOL MASS SPECTROMETERS; AETHALOMETER; ALPINE VALLEYS; BLACK CARBONS; C METHODS; LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS; OPTICAL PARTICLE COUNTERS; PARTICULATE MASS; PARTICULATE MATTERS; QUADRUPOLE; QUANTITATIVE DETERMINATIONS; SIZE RANGES; SOURCE APPORTIONMENTS; SUB MICROMETERS; SWITZERLAND; TEMPERATURE INVERSIONS; TRAFFIC EMISSIONS; TWO LANES; WOOD BURNING;

ABSORPTION; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CARBON BLACK; CLIMATOLOGY; COLOR; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LINEAR REGRESSION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; ORGANIC CARBON; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); PERMANENT MAGNETS; WOOD;

PARTICULATE EMISSIONS;

AEROSOL; BLACK CARBON; BURNING; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PARTICULATE MATTER; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TRAFFIC EMISSION; VILLAGE;

AEROSOL; ARTICLE; FIELD EMISSION; HEATING; HOUSEHOLD; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PARTICULATE MATTER; QUADRUPOLE MASS SPECTROMETRY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SWITZERLAND; TEMPERATURE; WOOD; AIR POLLUTANT; CHEMISTRY; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASON; TIME;

ABSORPTION; AEROSOLS; CARBON; CARBON BLACK; COLOR; LIGHT; MAGNETS; MASS SPECTROMETERS; METEOROLOGY; PARTICLES; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE; WOOD;

CARBON;

AEROSOLS; AIR POLLUTANTS; CARBON; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LIGHT; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASONS; SWITZERLAND; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; WOOD;

EID: 50949113557     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es702253m     Document Type: Article

References (44)

1. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science B asis-Summary for Policymakers. http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM2feb07. pdf (accessed 2007).
2. Vingarzan, R.; Li, S.-M. The Pacific 2001 air quality study-Synthesis of findings and policy implications. Atmos. Environ. 2006, 40, 2637-2649.
3. Park, R. J.; Jacob, D. J.; Kumar, N.; Yantosca, R. M. Regional visibility statistics in the United States: Natural and trans-boundary influences, and implications for the Regional Haze Rule. Atmos. Environ. 2006, 40, 5405-5423.
4. Pope, C. A. 3rd; Burnett, R. T.; Thun, M. J.; Calle, E. E.; Krewski, D.; Ito, K.; Thurston, G. D. Lung cancer, cardiopulmonary mortality, and long-term exposure to fine particulate air pollution. J. Am. Med. Assoc. 2002, 287 (9), 1132-1141.
5. Jerret, M.; Burnett, R. T.; Ma, R. J.; Pope, C. A.; Krewski, D.; Newbold, K. B.; Thurston, G.; Shi, Y. L.; Finkelstein, N.; Cale, E. E.; Thun, M. J. Spatial analysis of air pollution and mortality in Los Angeles. Epidemiology. 2005, 16, 727-736.
6. Hoffer, A.; Gelencsér, A.; Guyon, P.; Kiss, G.; Schmid, O.; Frank, G.; Artaxo, P.; Andreae, M. O. Optical properties of humic-like substances (HULIS) inbiomass-burning aerosols. Atmos. Chem. Phys. 2006, 6, 3563-3570.
7. Kochbach, A.; Li, Y.; Yttri, K. E.; Cassee, F. R.; Schwarze, P. E.; Namork, E. Physicochemical characterisation of combustion particles from vehicle exhaust and residential wood smoke. Particle Fibre Toxicol 2006, 3, 1,; doi: 10.1186/1743-8977-3-1.
8. Alfarra, M. R.; Prevot, A. S. FL; Szidat, S.; Sandradewi, J.; Weimer, S.; Lanz, V. A.; Schreiber, D.; Mohr, M.; Baltensperger, U. Identification of the mass spectral signature of organic aerosols from wood burning emissions. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2007, 41, 5770-5777,; doi: 10.1021/es062289b.
9. Weimer, S.; Alfarra, M. R.; Schreiber, D.; Mohr, M.; Prévôt, A. S. FL; Baltensperger, U. Organic aerosol mass spectral signatures from wood burning emissions: Influence of burning conditions and wood type. J. Geophys. Res. 2008, doi: 10.1029/2007JD009309, in press.
10. Burtscher, H. Physical characterization of particulate emissions from diesel engines: A review. Aerosol Sci. 2005, 26, 896-932.
11. Jeong, C.-FL; Hopke, P. K.; Kim, E.; Lee, D.-W. The comparison between thermal-optical transmittance elemental carbon and aethalometer black carbon measured at multiple monitoring sites. Atmos. Environ. 2004, 38, 5193-5204.
12. Kirchstetter, T. W.; Novakov, T. Evidence that the spectral dependence of light absorption by aerosols is affected by organic carbon. J. Geophys. Res. 2004, 109, D21208,; doi: 10.1029/ 2004JD004999.
13. Hand, J. L.; Malm, W. C; Laskin, A.; Day, D.; Lee, T.; Wang, C; Carrico, C; Carrillo, J.; Cowin, J. P.; Collett, J.; Iedema, M. J. Optical, physical, and chemical properties of tarballs observed during the Yosemite Aerosol Characterization Study. J. Geophys. Res. 2005, 110, D21210,; doi: 10.1029/2004JD005728.
14. Park, K.; Chow, J. C; Watson, J. G.; Trimble, D. L.; Doralswamy, P.; Arnott, W. P.; Stroud, K. R.; Bowers, K.; Bode, R.; Petzold, A.; Hansen, A. D. A. Comparison of continuous and filter-based carbon measurements at the Fresno Supersite. J. Air Waste Manage. Assoc. 2006, 56 (4), 474-491.
15. Day, D. E.; Hand, J. L.; Carrico, C. M.; Engling, G.; Malm, W. C. Humidification factors from laboratory studies of fresh smoke from biomass fuels. J Geophys. Res. 2006, 111, D22202,; doi: 10.1029/2006JD007221.
16. Sandradewi, J.; Prévôt, A. S. H.; Weingartner, E.; Schmidhauser, R.; Gysel, M.; Baltensperger, U. A study of wood burning and traffic aerosols in an Alpine valley using a multi-wavelength aethalometer. Atmos. Environ. 2008, 42, 101-112.
17. Weingartner, E.; Saathoff, H.; Schnaiter, M.; Streit, N.; Bitnar, B.; Baltensperger, U. Absorption of light by soot particles: determination of the absorption coefficient by means of aethalometers. J. Aerosol Sci. 2003, 34, 1445-1463.
18. Arnott, W. P.; Hamasha, K.; Moosmiiller, H.; Sheridan, P. J.; Ogren, J. A. Towards aerosol light-absorption measurements with a 7-wavelength aethalometer: Evaluation with a photo-acoustic instrument and 3-wavelength nephelometer. Aerosol Sci. Technol. 2005, 39, 17-29.
19. Kirchstetter, T. W.; Novakov, T. Controlled generation of black carbon particles from a diffusion flame and applications in evaluating black carbon measurement methods. Atmos. Environ. 2007, 41, 1874-1888.
20. Bond, T. C; Bergstrom, R. W. Light absorption by carbonaceous particles: An investigative review. Aerosol Sci. Technol. 2006, 40, 27-67.
21. Cozic, J.; Verheggen, B.; Mertes, S.; Connolly, P.; Bower, K.; Petzold, A.; Baltensperger, U.; Weingartner, E. Scavenging of black carbon in mixed phase clouds at the high alpine site Jungfraujoch. Atpos. Chem. Phys. 2007, 7, 1797-1807.
22. Andreae, M. O.; Gelencsér, A. Black carbon or brown carbon? The nature of light-absorbing carbonaceous aerosols. Atmos. Chem. Phys. 2006, 6, 3131-3148.
23. Allen, G. A.; Babich, P.; Poirot, R. L. Evaluation of a new approach for real time assessment of wood smoke PM. In Proceedings of the Regional and Global Perspectives on Haze: Causes, Consequences and Controversies-Visibility Specialty Conference, Asheville, North Carolina, 2004; Air and Waste Management Association: 2004.
24. Szidat, S.; Prévôt, A. S. FL; Sandradewi, J.; Alfarra, M. R.; Synal, FF.-A.; Wacker, L.; Baltensperger, U. Dominant impact of residential woodburning on particulate matter in Alpine valleys duringwinter. Gepphys. Res. Lett. 2007, 34, L05820,; doi: 10.1029/2006GL028325.
25. 14C) in the environment. Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res., Sect. B 2004, 223-224, 829-836.
26. Canagaratna, M. R.;Jayne, J. T.; Jimenez, J. L.;Allan, J. D.;Alfarra, M. R.; Zhang, Q.; Onasch, T. B.; Drewnick, F.; Coe, H.; Middlebrook, A.; Delia, A.; Williams, L. R.; Trimborn, A. M.; Northway, M. J.; Kolb, C. E.; Davidovits, P.; Worsnop, D. R. Chemical and microphysical characterization of ambient aerosols with the aerosol mass spectrometer. Mass Spectrom. Rev. 2007, 26, 185-222.
27. Birch, M. E.; Cary, R. A. Elemental carbon-based method for monitoring occupational exposures to particulate diesel exhaust. Aerosol Sci. Technol 1996, 25, 221-241.
28. Bae, M.-S.; Schauer, J. J.; DeMinter, J. T.; Turner, J. R.; Smith, D.; Cary, R. A. Validation of a semi-continuous instrument for elemental carbon and organic carbon using a thermal-optical method. Atmos. Environ. 2004, 38, 2885-2893.
29. Chow, J. C; Watson, J. G.; Crow, D.; Lowenthal, D. H.; Merrifield, T. Comparison of IMPROVE and NIOSH carbon measurements. Aerosol Sci. Technol. 2001, 34, 23-34.
30. Schnaiter, M.; Horvath, H.; Möhlter, O.; Naumann, K.-H.; Saafhoff, H.; Schöck, O. W. UV-VIS-NIR spectral optical properties of soot and soot-containing aerosols. J. Aerosol Sci. 2003, 34, 1421-1444.
31. Schnaiter, M.; Linke, C; Möhler, O.; Naumann, K.-H.; Saathoff, H.; Wagner, R.; Schurath, U. Absorption amplification of black carbon internally mixed with secondary organic aerosols. J. Geovhvs. Res. 2005, 110, D19204,; doi: 10.1029/2005JD006046.
32. Alfarra, M. R.; Coe, H.; Allan, J. D.; Bower, K. N.; Boudries, H.; Canagaratna, M. R.; Jimenez, J. L.; Jayne, J. T.; Garfortha, A. A.; Lie, S.-M.; Worsnop, D. R. Characterization of urban and rural organic particulate in the Lower Fraser Valley using two Aerodyne aerosol mass spectrometers. Atmos. Environ. 2004, 38, 5745-5758.
33. 14C aerosol science. Radiocarbon 2000, 42, 115-126.
34. 2 level in mid-latitudes of the northern hemisphere (1959-2003). Radiocarbon 2004, 46, 1261-1272.
35. 14C. J. Geovhps. Res. 2006, 111, D07206,; doi: 10.1029/2005JD006590.
36. 2 and mass balances Bioresour. Technol. 2007, doi: 10.1016/ j.biortech.2007.11.042, in press.
37. Turpin, B. J.; Lim, H.-J. Species contributions to PM2.5 mass concentrations: Revisiting common assumptions for estimating organic mass. Aerosol Sci. Technol 2001, 35, 602-610.
38. Khalil, M.A. K.; Rasmussen, R.A. Tracers of wood smoke. Atmos. Environ. 2003, 37, 1211-1222.
39. Paatero, P.; Tapper, U. Positive matrix factorization: A non-negative factor model with optimal utilization of error estimates of data values. Bnvironmetrics, 1994, 5, 111-126.
40. Paatero, P. User's Guide for Positive Matrix Factorization Programs PMF2 and PMF3, Part 1: Tutorial; University of Helsinski, Finland, 2007.
41. Saarikoski, S.; Sillanpa, M.; Sofiev, M.; Timonen, H.; Saarnio, K.; Teinila, K.; Karppinen, A.; Kukkonen, J.; Hillamo, R. Chemical composition of aerosols during amajorbiomassburning episode over northern Europe in Spring 2006: Experimental and modeling assessments. Atmos. Environ. 2007, 41, 3577-3589.
42. Lough, G. C; Christensen, C. G.; Schauer, J. J.; Tortorelli, J.; Mani, E.; Lawson, D. R.; Clark, N. N.; Gabele, P. A. Development of molecular marker source profiles for emissions from on-road gasoline and diesel vehicle fleets. J. Air Waste Manage. Assoc. 2007, 57, 1190-1199.
43. Lanz, V. A.; Alfarra, M. R.; Baltensperger, U.; Buchmann, B.; Hueglin, C; Szidat, S.; Wehrli, M. N.; Wacker, L.; Weimer, S.; Caseiro, A.; Puxbaum, H.; Prévôt, A. S. H. Source attribution of submicron organic aerosols during wintertime inversions by advanced factor analysis of aerosol mass spectra. Environ. Sri. Technol. 2008, 42, 214-220.
44. Lonati, G.; Giugliano, M.; Butelli, P.; Romele, L.; Tardivo, R. Major chemical components of PM2.5 in Milan (Italy). Atmos. Environ. 2005, 39, 1925-1934.