Sources and formation mechanisms of carbonaceous aerosol at a regional background site in the Netherlands: insights from a year-long radiocarbon study

Dusek, Ulrike; Hitzenberger, Regina; Kasper-Giebl, Anne; Kistler, Magdalena; Meijer, Harro A. J.; Szidat, Sönke; Wacker, Lukas; Holzinger, Rupert; Röckmann, Thomas

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-3233-2017

Articles | Volume 17, issue 5

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-3233-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-3233-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 17, issue 5

Research article

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06 Mar 2017

Research article |

| 06 Mar 2017

Sources and formation mechanisms of carbonaceous aerosol at a regional background site in the Netherlands: insights from a year-long radiocarbon study

Ulrike Dusek, Regina Hitzenberger, Anne Kasper-Giebl, Magdalena Kistler, Harro A. J. Meijer, Sönke Szidat, Lukas Wacker, Rupert Holzinger, and Thomas Röckmann

Data sets

14C Public data set U. Dusek http://www.rug.nl/research/isotope-research/projects/public-data-set

Short summary

Measurements of the radioactive carbon isotope ¹⁴C allow to identify the sources of aerosol carbon. We report an extensive ¹⁴C source apportionment record in the Netherlands with samples covering a whole year. We discovered that long-range transport has a large influence on aerosol carbon levels. Fossil fuel carbon is least influenced by long-range transport and more regional in origin. Biomass burning seems to be a minor source of aerosol carbon in the Netherlands.