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Carbonaceous aerosols at urban influenced sites in Norway

Yttri

K. E.

¹ Dye

¹ Braathen

O.-A.

¹ Simpson

² ³ Steinnes

⁴

Norwegian Institute for Air Research, P.O. Box 100, 2027 Kjeller, Norway

Norwegian Meteortological Institute, P.B. 43 Blindern, 0313 Oslo, Norway

Dept. of Radio and Space Science, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

Dept. of Chemistry, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491 Trondheim, Norway

17 11 2008

8 6 19487 19525

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Little is known regarding levels and source strength of carbonaceous aerosols in Scandinavia. In the present study, ambient aerosol (PM10 and PM2.5) concentrations of elemental carbon (EC), organic carbon (OC), water-insoluble organic carbon (WINSOC), and water-soluble organic carbon (WSOC) are reported for a curbside site, an urban background site, and a suburban site in Norway in order to investigate their spatial and seasonal variations. Aerosol filter samples were collected using tandem filter sampling to correct for the positive sampling artefact introduced by semi volatile OC. Analyses were performed using the thermal optical transmission (TOT) instrument from Sunset Lab Inc., which corrects for charring during analysis. Finally, we estimated the relative contribution of OC from wood burning based on the samples content of levoglucosan. Levels of EC varied by more than one order of magnitude between sites, likely due to the higher impact of vehicular traffic at the curbside and the urban background sites. In winter, the level of particulate organic carbon (OCp) at the suburban site was equal to (for PM10) or even higher (for PM2.5) than the levels observed at the curbside and the urban background sites. This finding was attributed to the impact of residential wood burning at the suburban site in winter, which was confirmed by a high mean concentration of levoglucosan (407 ng m−3). This finding indicates that exposure to primary combustion derived OCp could be equally high in residential areas as in a city center. It is demonstrated that OCp from wood burning (OCwood) accounted for almost all OCp at the suburban site in winter, allowing a new estimate of the ratio TCp/levoglucosan for both PM10 and PM2.5. Particulate carbonaceous material (PCM = Organic matter + Elemental matter) accounted for 46–83% of PM10 at the sites studied when considering the positive artefact of semi volatile OC, thus being the major contributor to PM.

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