Articles | Volume 17, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-6257-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-6257-2017
Research article
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22 May 2017
Research article |  | 22 May 2017

Nitro-polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons – gas–particle partitioning, mass size distribution, and formation along transport in marine and continental background air

Gerhard Lammel, Marie D. Mulder, Pourya Shahpoury, Petr Kukučka, Hana Lišková, Petra Přibylová, Roman Prokeš, and Gerhard Wotawa

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Nitro-polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (NPAH) are ubiquitous and formed in polluted air, but little is known about their abundance in background air and long-range transport potential. We studied NPAHs in the gas and particulate phases of aerosols in the marine (Mediterranean) and continental (Gt. Hungarian Plain) environment in summer. The NPAH levels determined in the southeastern outflow of Europe are the lowest ever reported and confirm intercontinental transport potential.
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