Persistent sulfate formation from London Fog to Chinese haze

  • Gehui Wang
    State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an 710061, China;
  • Renyi Zhang
    Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843;
  • Mario E. Gomez
    Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843;
  • Lingxiao Yang
    Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843;
  • Misti Levy Zamora
    Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843;
  • Min Hu
    State Key Joint Laboratory of Environmental Simulation and Pollution Control, College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China;
  • Yun Lin
    Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843;
  • Jianfei Peng
    Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843;
  • Song Guo
    Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843;
  • Jingjing Meng
    State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an 710061, China;
  • Jianjun Li
    State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an 710061, China;
  • Chunlei Cheng
    State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an 710061, China;
  • Tafeng Hu
    State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an 710061, China;
  • Yanqin Ren
    State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an 710061, China;
  • Yuesi Wang
    Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China;
  • Jian Gao
    Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100000, China;
  • Junji Cao
    State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an 710061, China;
  • Zhisheng An
    State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an 710061, China;
  • Weijian Zhou
    State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an 710061, China;
  • Guohui Li
    State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an 710061, China;
  • Jiayuan Wang
    State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an 710061, China;
  • Pengfei Tian
    Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843;
  • Wilmarie Marrero-Ortiz
    Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843;
  • Jeremiah Secrest
    Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843;
  • Zhuofei Du
    State Key Joint Laboratory of Environmental Simulation and Pollution Control, College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China;
  • Jing Zheng
    State Key Joint Laboratory of Environmental Simulation and Pollution Control, College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China;
  • Dongjie Shang
    State Key Joint Laboratory of Environmental Simulation and Pollution Control, College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China;
  • Limin Zeng
    State Key Joint Laboratory of Environmental Simulation and Pollution Control, College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China;
  • Min Shao
    State Key Joint Laboratory of Environmental Simulation and Pollution Control, College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China;
  • Weigang Wang
    Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843;
  • Yao Huang
    State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an 710061, China;
  • Yuan Wang
    Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125;
  • Yujiao Zhu
    Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843;
  • Yixin Li
    Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843;
  • Jiaxi Hu
    Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843;
  • Bowen Pan
    Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843;
  • Li Cai
    Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843;
  • Yuting Cheng
    State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an 710061, China;
  • Yuemeng Ji
    Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843;
  • Fang Zhang
    Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843;
  • Daniel Rosenfeld
    Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843;
  • Peter S. Liss
    Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843;
  • Robert A. Duce
    Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843;
  • Charles E. Kolb
    Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843;
  • Mario J. Molina
    Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093

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公開日
2016-11-14
権利情報
  • http://www.pnas.org/site/misc/userlicense.xhtml
DOI
  • 10.1073/pnas.1616540113
公開者
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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<jats:title>Significance</jats:title> <jats:p> Exceedingly high levels of fine particulate matter (PM) occur frequently in China, but the mechanism of severe haze formation remains unclear. From atmospheric measurements in two Chinese megacities and laboratory experiments, we show that the oxidation of SO <jats:sub>2</jats:sub> by NO <jats:sub>2</jats:sub> occurs efficiently in aqueous media under two polluted conditions: first, during the formation of the 1952 London Fog via in-cloud oxidation; and second, on fine PM with NH <jats:sub>3</jats:sub> neutralization during severe haze in China. We suggest that effective haze mitigation is achievable by intervening in the sulfate formation process with NH <jats:sub>3</jats:sub> and NO <jats:sub>2</jats:sub> emission control measures. Hence, our results explain the outstanding sulfur problem during the historic London Fog formation and elucidate the chemical mechanism of severe haze in China. </jats:p>

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