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Title: Impact of urban and industrial emissions on mesoscale precipitation quality

Abstract

Results from an acid rain field study around the city of Philadelphia are presented. The study involved the sampling of wet deposition at a network of 40 sites within a distance of 60 km from the Delaware River. Emphasis was placed on event-type rain sampling of frontal and primarily nonconvective storms which are responsible for most of the Northeast's wet deposition. For most storms, meteorological conditions contributed to a predominant southeasterly transport. Local emissions appear to impact the deposition of nitrate (NO/sub 3//sup -/ which may register increases greater than 200%. It appears that this impact grows with distance from the river suggesting peaks beyond the 60 km boundary of the network. Comparisons with estimates of NO/sub x/ emissions reveal that a substantial fraction may be deposited as NO/sub 3//sup -/ on the mesoscale. The impact of local emissions on total sulfur is less striking; for some storms the sulfur excess is only in the form of dissolved SO/sub 2/.

Authors:
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
5027627
DOE Contract Number:  
AC02-76CH00016
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
J. Air Pollut. Control Assoc.; (United States)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 35:7
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; ACID RAIN; LONG-RANGE TRANSPORT; POLLUTION SOURCES; ATMOSPHERIC PRECIPITATIONS; NITRATES; NITROGEN OXIDES; PENNSYLVANIA; SAMPLING; SULFUR DIOXIDE; TRAJECTORIES; URBAN AREAS; WASHOUT; CHALCOGENIDES; ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSPORT; FEDERAL REGION III; MASS TRANSFER; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; NORTH AMERICA; OXIDES; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; PRECIPITATION SCAVENGING; RAIN; SEPARATION PROCESSES; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; SULFUR OXIDES; USA; 500200* - Environment, Atmospheric- Chemicals Monitoring & Transport- (-1989)

Citation Formats

Patrinos, A A.N. Impact of urban and industrial emissions on mesoscale precipitation quality. United States: N. p., 1985. Web. doi:10.1080/00022470.1985.10465949.
Patrinos, A A.N. Impact of urban and industrial emissions on mesoscale precipitation quality. United States. https://doi.org/10.1080/00022470.1985.10465949
Patrinos, A A.N. 1985. "Impact of urban and industrial emissions on mesoscale precipitation quality". United States. https://doi.org/10.1080/00022470.1985.10465949.
@article{osti_5027627,
title = {Impact of urban and industrial emissions on mesoscale precipitation quality},
author = {Patrinos, A A.N.},
abstractNote = {Results from an acid rain field study around the city of Philadelphia are presented. The study involved the sampling of wet deposition at a network of 40 sites within a distance of 60 km from the Delaware River. Emphasis was placed on event-type rain sampling of frontal and primarily nonconvective storms which are responsible for most of the Northeast's wet deposition. For most storms, meteorological conditions contributed to a predominant southeasterly transport. Local emissions appear to impact the deposition of nitrate (NO/sub 3//sup -/ which may register increases greater than 200%. It appears that this impact grows with distance from the river suggesting peaks beyond the 60 km boundary of the network. Comparisons with estimates of NO/sub x/ emissions reveal that a substantial fraction may be deposited as NO/sub 3//sup -/ on the mesoscale. The impact of local emissions on total sulfur is less striking; for some storms the sulfur excess is only in the form of dissolved SO/sub 2/.},
doi = {10.1080/00022470.1985.10465949},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/5027627}, journal = {J. Air Pollut. Control Assoc.; (United States)},
number = ,
volume = 35:7,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 1985},
month = {Mon Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 1985}
}