Analysis on the difference of near-surface ozone concentration between the Fenwei Plain and the Loess Plateau at different altitudes
QIAN peng1, ZHU Bin1,2, LIU Hui-min2,3, JIANG Yi-rong2,3, ZHANG Jian-kang2,3, GAO Mei-mei2,3, KANG lei3
1. Key Open Laboratory of Aerosol and Cloud Precipitation, China Meteorological Administration, Collaborative Innovation Center for Meteorological Disaster Prediction, Early Warning and Evaluation, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing 210044, China; 2. Key Laboratory of Eco-Environmental and Meteorology for the Qinling Mountains and Loess Plateau, Shaanxi Meteorological Bureau, Xi'an 710016, China; 3. Yulin Meteorological Bureau, Yulin 719000, China
Abstract:Using the hourly dataset of ground-level ozone (O3) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) collected by the General Ecological and Environmental Monitoring Station of China from 2017 to 2019, combined with reanalysis of meteorological datasets, we analyze the O3 concentrations characteristics in seasonal, monthly and diurnal scales in typical suburban areas (Xi'an, 500m; Yulin, 1100m and Ordos, 1300m above sea level) at three different altitudes from the Fenwei Plain to the Loess Plateau. The potential chemical and meteorological causes of the differences in O3 concentrations at the three locations are also conducted. The results show that the O3 concentrations are high at all three sites with less differences of concentrations in summer. In Xi'an, the net O3 increase in daytime, the net decrease in nighttime and the NO2 concentrations (one of the precursors of O3) are the highest among the three sites in summer, indicating that O3 photochemical production in daytime and the NO titration O3 effect in nighttime are the strongest in Xi'an, followed by Yulin and Ordos. In winter, O3 concentrations in all three sites are low and the lowest in Xi'an and the highest in Erdos, with large differences. This may be due to the combination effect of weak photochemical reactions in daytime, differences in NO titration O3 effects at night and background O3 concentrations at different altitudes, reflecting that the O3 concentration levels at the three sites are not only dominant by local chemistry at different NOx levels, but also determined by regional background values. The study also reveals that O3 concentrations in Ordos and Yulin (at the higher altitudes) increase faster in the morning than in Xi'an, consistent with the faster upward increase of the boundary layer height in two sites in the morning, which could be caused by the entrainment effect, downward transport high background O3 from free troposphere to the surface by turbulence at this period. During the rainy night in each season, O3 concentrations in all three sites are higher than those on cloudy and sunny days, with a small difference in Xi'an and significant differences in Yulin and Ordos, which further implies that O3 concentrations at sites with high altitudes could be influenced strongly by high background O3 concentrations, partly through the dragging effect of precipitation, and partly because of the weakened titration of NO at night on rainy days. In this study, the hypothesis of the altitude impact on surface O3 has been proposed through the analysis of long-term observations, which also needs validate by model simulations in widely regions.
钱朋, 朱彬, 刘慧敏, 蒋伊蓉, 张建康, 高美美, 康磊. 汾渭平原至黄土高原不同海拔高度地区近地面臭氧浓度差异[J]. 中国环境科学, 2023, 43(1): 77-87.
QIAN peng, ZHU Bin, LIU Hui-min, JIANG Yi-rong, ZHANG Jian-kang, GAO Mei-mei, KANG lei. Analysis on the difference of near-surface ozone concentration between the Fenwei Plain and the Loess Plateau at different altitudes. CHINA ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCECE, 2023, 43(1): 77-87.
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