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Aerosol acidity and liquid water content regulate the dry deposition of inorganic reactive nitrogen
Athanasios Nenes
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Institute for Chemical Engineering Sciences, Foundation for Research
and Technology Hellas, Patras, 26504, Greece
School of Architecture, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Ecole
Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland
Spyros N. Pandis
Institute for Chemical Engineering Sciences, Foundation for Research
and Technology Hellas, Patras, 26504, Greece
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Patras, Patras, 26504,
Greece
Maria Kanakidou
Institute for Chemical Engineering Sciences, Foundation for Research
and Technology Hellas, Patras, 26504, Greece
Environmental Chemical Processes Laboratory, Department of Chemistry,
University of Crete, Voutes, Heraklion, Crete, 70013, Greece
Armistead G. Russell
School of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of
Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
Shaojie Song
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Petros Vasilakos
School of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of
Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
Rodney J. Weber
School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of
Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
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Short summary
Ecosystems and air quality are affected by the dry deposition of inorganic reactive nitrogen (Nr, the sum of ammonium and nitrate). Its large variability is driven by the large difference in deposition velocity of N when in the gas or particle phase. Here we show that aerosol liquid water and acidity, by affecting gas–particle partitioning, modulate the dry deposition velocity of NH3, HNO3, and Nr worldwide. These effects explain the rapid accumulation of nitrate aerosol during haze events.
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