Trends and source apportionment of aerosols in Europe during 1980-2018
Abstract
Aerosols have significantly affected health, environment, and climate in Europe. Aerosol concentrations have been declining since the 1980s in Europe,mainly owing to a reduction of local aerosol and precursor emissions.Emissions from other source regions of the world, which have been changing rapidly as well, may also perturb the historical and future trends of aerosols and change their radiative impact in Europe. This study examines trends of aerosols in Europe during 1980–2018 and quantifies contributions from 16 source regions using the Community Atmosphere Model version 5 with Explicit Aerosol Source Tagging (CAM5-EAST). The simulated near-surface total mass concentration of sulfate, black carbon, and primary organic carbon had a 62 % decrease during 1980–2018. The majority of which was contributed to reductions of local emissions in Europe, and 8 %–9 % was induced by a decrease in emissions from Russia–Belarus–Ukraine. With the decreases in the fractional contribution of local emissions, aerosols transported from other source regions are increasingly important for air quality in Europe. During 1980–2018, the decrease in sulfate loading led to a warming effect of 2.0 W m–2 in Europe, with 12 % coming from changes in non-European sources, especially from North America and Russia–Belarus–Ukraine. According to the Shared Socioeconomicmore »
- Authors:
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- Nanjing Univ. of Information Science and Technology, Jiangsu (China)
- Nanjing Univ., Jiangsu (China)
- Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER); National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1606330
- Report Number(s):
- PNNL-SA-151829
Journal ID: ISSN 1680-7324
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC05-76RL01830; 41975159; 2019r047
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Online)
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Online); Journal Volume: 20; Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 1680-7324
- Publisher:
- European Geosciences Union
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Citation Formats
Yang, Yang, Lou, Sijia, Wang, Hailong, Wang, Pinya, and Liao, Hong. Trends and source apportionment of aerosols in Europe during 1980-2018. United States: N. p., 2020.
Web. doi:10.5194/acp-20-2579-2020.
Yang, Yang, Lou, Sijia, Wang, Hailong, Wang, Pinya, & Liao, Hong. Trends and source apportionment of aerosols in Europe during 1980-2018. United States. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-2579-2020
Yang, Yang, Lou, Sijia, Wang, Hailong, Wang, Pinya, and Liao, Hong. Mon .
"Trends and source apportionment of aerosols in Europe during 1980-2018". United States. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-2579-2020. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1606330.
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title = {Trends and source apportionment of aerosols in Europe during 1980-2018},
author = {Yang, Yang and Lou, Sijia and Wang, Hailong and Wang, Pinya and Liao, Hong},
abstractNote = {Aerosols have significantly affected health, environment, and climate in Europe. Aerosol concentrations have been declining since the 1980s in Europe,mainly owing to a reduction of local aerosol and precursor emissions.Emissions from other source regions of the world, which have been changing rapidly as well, may also perturb the historical and future trends of aerosols and change their radiative impact in Europe. This study examines trends of aerosols in Europe during 1980–2018 and quantifies contributions from 16 source regions using the Community Atmosphere Model version 5 with Explicit Aerosol Source Tagging (CAM5-EAST). The simulated near-surface total mass concentration of sulfate, black carbon, and primary organic carbon had a 62 % decrease during 1980–2018. The majority of which was contributed to reductions of local emissions in Europe, and 8 %–9 % was induced by a decrease in emissions from Russia–Belarus–Ukraine. With the decreases in the fractional contribution of local emissions, aerosols transported from other source regions are increasingly important for air quality in Europe. During 1980–2018, the decrease in sulfate loading led to a warming effect of 2.0 W m–2 in Europe, with 12 % coming from changes in non-European sources, especially from North America and Russia–Belarus–Ukraine. According to the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSP) scenarios, contributions to the sulfate radiative forcing over Europe from both local European emissions and non-European emissions should decrease at a comparable rate in the next 3 decades, suggesting that future changes in non-European emissions are as important as European emissions for causing possible regional climate change associated with aerosols in Europe.},
doi = {10.5194/acp-20-2579-2020},
journal = {Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Online)},
number = 4,
volume = 20,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Mar 02 00:00:00 EST 2020},
month = {Mon Mar 02 00:00:00 EST 2020}
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