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Contributions of primary emissions and secondary formation to nitrated aromatic compounds in themountain background region of Southeast China
Yanqin Ren
State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment,
Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China
Key Lab of Geographic Information Science of Ministry of Education of
China, School of Geographic Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai
200142, China
Jie Wei
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Key Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling,
Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese
Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
South China Institute of Environmental Sciences, Ministry of Ecology
and Environment, Guangzhou, 510655, China
Zhisheng Zhang
South China Institute of Environmental Sciences, Ministry of Ecology
and Environment, Guangzhou, 510655, China
Hong Li
State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment,
Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China
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Nine quantified nitrated aromatic compounds (NACs) in PM2.5 were examined at the peak of Mt. Wuyi. They manifested a significant rise in overall abundance in the winter and autumn. The transport of contaminants had a significant impact on NACs. Under low-NOx conditions, the formation of NACs was comparatively sensitive to NO2, suggesting that NACs would become significant in the aerosol characteristics when nitrate concentrations decreased as a result of emission reduction measures.
Nine quantified nitrated aromatic compounds (NACs) in PM2.5 were examined at the peak of Mt....
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