MAX-DOAS measurements of NO2, HCHO and CHOCHO at a rural site in Southern China
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Title (Dublin Core)
MAX-DOAS measurements of NO2, HCHO and CHOCHO at a rural site in Southern China
Description (Dublin Core)
We performed MAX-DOAS measurements during the PRIDE-PRD2006 campaign in the Pearl River Delta region (PRD), China, for 4 weeks in July 2006 at a site located 60 km north of Guangzhou. The vertical distributions of NO<sub>2</sub>, HCHO, and CHOCHO were independently retrieved by an automated iteration method. The NO<sub>2</sub> mixing ratios measured by MAX-DOAS showed reasonable agreement with the simultaneous, ground based in-situ data. The tropospheric NO<sub>2</sub> vertical column densities (VCDs) observed by OMI on board EOS-Aura satellite were higher than with those by MAX-DOAS. The 3-D chemical transport model CMAQ overestimated the NO<sub>2</sub> VCDs as well as the surface concentrations by about 65%. From this observation, a reduction of NO<sub>x</sub> emission strength in CMAQ seems to be necessary in order to well reproduce the NO<sub>2</sub> observations. The average mixing ratios of HCHO and CHOCHO were 7 ppb and 0.4 ppb, respectively, higher than in other rural or semirural environments. The high ratio of 0.062 between CHOCHO and HCHO corresponds to the high VOCs reactivity and high HO<sub>x</sub> turnover rate consistent with other observations during the campaign.
Creator (Dublin Core)
Li, X.
Brauers, T.
Hofzumahaus, A.
Lu, K.
Li, Y. P.
Shao, M.
Wagner, T.
Wahner, A.
Date (Dublin Core)
2018-01-15
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application/pdf
Identifier (Dublin Core)
10.5194/acp-13-2133-2013
https://acp.copernicus.org/articles/13/2133/2013/
Source (Dublin Core)
eISSN: 1680-7324
Language (Dublin Core)
eng
