Journal
ATMOSPHERE
Volume 11, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/atmos11090906
Keywords
precipitation; PM2.5; wind; removal effect
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [41925022]
- Ministry of Science and Technology of China National Key RD Program [2019YFA0606803, 2017YFC1501403]
- Hebei Province Key Research and Development project [20375402D]
- Beijing Municipal Commission of science and technology [D171100007917001]
- State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology
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Atmospheric aerosol pollution has significant impacts on human health and economic society. One of the most efficient way to remove the pollutants from the atmosphere is wet deposition. This study selected three typical atmospheric pollution regions in China, the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (BTH), the Yangtze River Delta (YRD) and the Pearl River Delta (PRD) regions, as research areas, and used the hourly precipitation and PM(2.5)mass concentration data from 2015 to 2017 to investigate the removal impacts of precipitation on PM2.5. The PM(2.5)mass concentration difference before and after the hourly precipitation events was used to denote as the impacts of precipitation. Hourly precipitation event was selected so that the time difference between two PM(2.5)observations was short enough to limit the PM(2.5)change caused by other factors. This study focused on the differences in the removal effect of precipitation on PM(2.5)under different precipitation intensities and pollution levels. The results show that both precipitation intensity and aerosol amount affected the removal effect. A negative removal effect existed for both light precipitation and low PM(2.5)mass concentration conditions. In contrast, a positive removal effect occurred for both high precipitation and high PM(2.5)mass concentration conditions. The removal effect increased with increasing precipitation intensity and PM(2.5)mass concentration before precipitation and was consistent with the change trend of wind speed at a height of 100 m. The findings of this study can help understand the mechanism of wet scavenging on air pollution, providing support for air pollution control in future.
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