Atmospheric mass and metal size distributions measured around Lake Michigan
- Illinois Inst. of Technology, Chicago, IL (United States); and others
This study, which was part of a multi-university AEOLOS investigation, involved an assessment of the spatial and temporal variations in the dry deposition fluxes and mass size distributions (MSDs) of total mass, crustal (aluminum and magnesium), and anthropogenic (lead and copper) metals over the southern basin of Lake Michigan. The work included measurement of deposition fluxes and MSDs during winter, summer and fall, concurrently, in Chicago, IL, over Lake Michigan, and in South Haven, MI. A Cascade impactor was used to determine the size distribution in the fine particles (<2.5 {mu}m), while Noll Rotary Impactor (NRI) was used to collect coarse particles (>2.5 {mu}m). The flux of these metals was substantially higher in Chicago than at either South Haven or over Lake Michigan. The measured average aluminum and magnesium fluxes were 2.23 and 5.32 mg/m{sup 2}-day over Chicago, and 0.24 and 0.28 mg/m{sup 2}-day over Lake Michigan, while the average aluminum and magnesium fluxes in South Haven were 0.17 and 0.12 mg/m{sup 2}-day respectively. The measured average lead and copper fluxes were 0.07 and 0.06 mg/m{sup 2}-day in Chicago, 0.003 and 0.01 mg/m{sup 2}-day over Lake Michigan, and 0.004 and 0.003 mg/m{sup 2}-day in South Haven. This research provided evidence of three possible peaks in the MSDs: the first in the 0-1 {mu}m range, the second in the 1-10 {mu}m region, and the third in the > 10-50 {mu}m range, with the MSDs being unimodal, bimodal or trimodal. Temporal variations in flux were not evident in this study. The wind direction (e.g., from over land, or from over lake) had large impact on both fluxes and size distributions. 5 refs., 10 figs., 1 tab.
- OSTI ID:
- 617650
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9605175-; TRN: 98:002112-0031
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: International symposium on measurement of toxic and related air pollutants, Research Triangle Park, NC (United States), 7-10 May 1996; Other Information: PBD: 1996; Related Information: Is Part Of Measurement of toxic and related air pollutants; PB: 889 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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