The petroleum industry is a significant source of anthropogenic volatile organic compounds(VOCs),but up to now,its exact impact on urban VOCs and ozone(O_(3))remains unclear.This study conducted year-long VOC ob-serva...The petroleum industry is a significant source of anthropogenic volatile organic compounds(VOCs),but up to now,its exact impact on urban VOCs and ozone(O_(3))remains unclear.This study conducted year-long VOC ob-servations in Dongying,China,a petroleum industrial region.The VOCs from the petroleum industry(oil and gas volatilization and petrochemical production)were identified by employing the positive matrix factorization model,and their contribution to O_(3) formation was quantitatively evaluated using an observation-based chemical box model.The observed annual average concentration of VOCs was 68.6±63.5 ppbv,with a maximum daily av-erage of 335.3 ppbv.The petroleum industry accounted for 66.5%of total VOCs,contributing 54.9%from oil and gas evaporation and 11.6%from petrochemical production.Model results indicated that VOCs from the petroleum industry contributed to 31%of net O_(3) production,with 21.3%and 34.2%contributions to HO_(2)+NO and RO_(2)+NO pathways,respectively.The larger impact on the RO_(2) pathway is primarily due to the fact that OH+VOCs ac-count for 86.9%of the primary source of RO_(2).This study highlights the critical role of controlling VOCs from the petroleum industry in urban O_(3) pollution,especially those from previously overlooked low-reactivity alkanes.展开更多
The near-surface lapse rate reflects the atmospheric stability above the surface.Lapse rates calculated from land surface temperature(γTs)and near-surface air temperature( γTa )have been widely used.However,γTs and...The near-surface lapse rate reflects the atmospheric stability above the surface.Lapse rates calculated from land surface temperature(γTs)and near-surface air temperature( γTa )have been widely used.However,γTs and γTa have different sensitivity to local surface energy balance and large-scale energy transport and therefore they may have diverse spatial and temporal variability,which has not been clearly illustrated in existing studies.In this study,we calculated and compared γTa and γTs at^2200 stations over China from 1961 to 2014.This study finds that γTa and γTs have a similar multiyear national average(0.53°C/100 m)and seasonal cycle.Nevertheless,γTs shows steeper multiyear average than γTa at high latitudes,and γTs in summer is steeper than γTa ,especially in Northwest China.The North China shows the shallowest γTa and γTs,then inhibiting the vertical diffusion of air pollutants and further reducing the lapse rates due to accumulation of pollutants.Moreover,the long-term trend signs for γTa and γTs are opposite in northern China.However,the trends in γTa and γTs are both negative in Southwest China and positive in Southeast China.Surface incident solar radiation,surface downward longwave radiation and precipitant frequency jointly can account for 80%and 75%of the long-term trends in γTa and γTs in China,respectively,which provides an explanation of trends of γTa and γTs from perspective of surface energy balance.展开更多
基金funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China[grant number 42075094]the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation[grant number 2021M691921]+1 种基金the Ministry of Ecology and Environment of the People’s Republic of China[grant number DQGG202121]the Dongying Ecological and Environmental Bureau[grant number 2021DFKY-0779]。
文摘The petroleum industry is a significant source of anthropogenic volatile organic compounds(VOCs),but up to now,its exact impact on urban VOCs and ozone(O_(3))remains unclear.This study conducted year-long VOC ob-servations in Dongying,China,a petroleum industrial region.The VOCs from the petroleum industry(oil and gas volatilization and petrochemical production)were identified by employing the positive matrix factorization model,and their contribution to O_(3) formation was quantitatively evaluated using an observation-based chemical box model.The observed annual average concentration of VOCs was 68.6±63.5 ppbv,with a maximum daily av-erage of 335.3 ppbv.The petroleum industry accounted for 66.5%of total VOCs,contributing 54.9%from oil and gas evaporation and 11.6%from petrochemical production.Model results indicated that VOCs from the petroleum industry contributed to 31%of net O_(3) production,with 21.3%and 34.2%contributions to HO_(2)+NO and RO_(2)+NO pathways,respectively.The larger impact on the RO_(2) pathway is primarily due to the fact that OH+VOCs ac-count for 86.9%of the primary source of RO_(2).This study highlights the critical role of controlling VOCs from the petroleum industry in urban O_(3) pollution,especially those from previously overlooked low-reactivity alkanes.
基金This work was supported by the National Key Research&Development Program of China(2017YFA0603601)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41525018 and 41930970)。
文摘The near-surface lapse rate reflects the atmospheric stability above the surface.Lapse rates calculated from land surface temperature(γTs)and near-surface air temperature( γTa )have been widely used.However,γTs and γTa have different sensitivity to local surface energy balance and large-scale energy transport and therefore they may have diverse spatial and temporal variability,which has not been clearly illustrated in existing studies.In this study,we calculated and compared γTa and γTs at^2200 stations over China from 1961 to 2014.This study finds that γTa and γTs have a similar multiyear national average(0.53°C/100 m)and seasonal cycle.Nevertheless,γTs shows steeper multiyear average than γTa at high latitudes,and γTs in summer is steeper than γTa ,especially in Northwest China.The North China shows the shallowest γTa and γTs,then inhibiting the vertical diffusion of air pollutants and further reducing the lapse rates due to accumulation of pollutants.Moreover,the long-term trend signs for γTa and γTs are opposite in northern China.However,the trends in γTa and γTs are both negative in Southwest China and positive in Southeast China.Surface incident solar radiation,surface downward longwave radiation and precipitant frequency jointly can account for 80%and 75%of the long-term trends in γTa and γTs in China,respectively,which provides an explanation of trends of γTa and γTs from perspective of surface energy balance.