Simulation modeling of atmospheric deposition of sulfur from biogenic and anthropogenic emissions
A biogenic sulfur-emission inventory for the eastern United States and immediately adjacent portions of Canada is used in the ASTRAP model to estimate biogenic contributions to wet and dry sulfur deposition and atmospheric sulfate concentration, under the conservative assumption that all biogenic sulfur is transformed to sulfate. Simulations for summer conditions, in which biogenic sulfur emissions are greatest, are compared with simulations of transport and deposition of anthropogenic emissions of sulfur. The biogenic contribution to sulfur deposition during summer is shown to have a relative maximum in the southeastern U.S., about 5 to 10% of the total deposition from combined anthropogenic and biogenic sources, with only a 1 to 2% biogenic contribution indicated in the northeastern U.S.
- Research Organization:
- Argonne National Lab., IL (USA)
- OSTI ID:
- 5486028
- Report Number(s):
- PB-85-176832/XAB
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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AIR POLLUTION
DEPOSITION
SULFATES
SULFUR
SULFUR OXIDES
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
MICROORGANISMS
SEASONAL VARIATIONS
CHALCOGENIDES
ELEMENTS
NONMETALS
OXIDES
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
POLLUTION
SULFUR COMPOUNDS
VARIATIONS
500200* - Environment
Atmospheric- Chemicals Monitoring & Transport- (-1989)