Spectral dependency of light scattering/absorption and hygroscopicity of pollution and dust aerosols in Northeast Asia

Sihye Lee; Soon Chang Yoon; Sang Woo Kim; Yong Pyo Kim; Young Sung Ghim; Ji Hyoung Kim; Chang Hee Kang; Young Joon Kim; Lim Seok Chang; Suk Jo Lee

doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2011.12.026

Spectral dependency of light scattering/absorption and hygroscopicity of pollution and dust aerosols in Northeast Asia

Sihye Lee, Soon Chang Yoon, Sang Woo Kim, Yong Pyo Kim, Young Sung Ghim, Ji Hyoung Kim, Chang Hee Kang, Young Joon Kim, Lim Seok Chang, Suk Jo Lee

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Ground-based in-situ measurements were performed to investigate the spectral optical properties and hygroscopicity of light scattering and absorbing aerosols in pollution and dust plumes in Northeast Asia. The scattering ångström exponents of pollution plumes are high, ranging from 0.8 to 1.8, because light scattering aerosols consist of relatively fine particles such as sulfate, nitrate, ammonium and carbonaceous particles. Pollution case having high organic carbon (OC) exhibits a relatively high absorption ångström exponent (AAE), in the range of 1.0-1.5 due to the absorption by refractory OC at near-UV spectral region. Among the different pollution cases, the AAE is the highest in a polluted dust plume; this can be attributed to the strong wavelength dependence of light absorption by dust particles. The mass absorption cross section (MAC), which represents the ability of light-absorbing aerosols to absorb a photon, is 4.2-8.3m ²g ^-1, and it is high when black carbon is mixed with OC and dust particles. The MAC decreases with increasing relative humidity, especially for pollution plume with a high OC content and for dust plume. Under humid conditions, hygroscopic chemical species can absorb water vapor, thus growing in size and enhancing aerosol light scattering, but the MAC decreases because of the possible shielding effects of absorbing aerosols with water uptake.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	246-254
Number of pages	9
Journal	Atmospheric Environment
Volume	50
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2011.12.026
State	Published - Apr 2012

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This research was supported by the BK21 program of the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University , and by the Korea Meteorological Administration Research and Development Program under Grant CATER 2006-4104 .

Keywords

Light-absorbing aerosol
Mass absorption cross section
Organic carbon
Relative humidity

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