Distribution and influencing factors of atmospheric nitrogen oxides (NOx) over the east coast of China in spring: Indication of the sea as a sink of the atmospheric NOx.

Ye Tian, Hui-Min Jian, Chun-Ying Liu, Jiang-Chen Gong, Pei-Feng Li, Gui-Peng Yang

Marine pollution bulletin 2024 Mar

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An integrated observation of NOx that included coastal cities and oceanic cruises covering the Qingdao coastal waters sites (QDCW) and the Yellow Sea and East China Sea sites (YECS) was conducted in spring. The average concentrations of the coastal cities, the QDCW, and the YECS were 5.4 ± 4.1, 4.2 ± 3.5, and 2.9 ± 6.8 ppb for NO while 18.5 ± 7.2, 9.4 ± 5.2, and 4.9 ± 6.4 ppb for NO2, depicting lowest levels in the open seas. Atmospheric NO and NO2 showed similar spatial variations over the seas, the stations where the air masses originated from land or nearshore regions showed higher levels, but the decisive influencing factors were not the same in the different study areas. The calculated NOx flux value in the YECS (-8.7 × 10-17 mol N cm-2) indicated that the sea surface was a net sink of atmospheric NOx. Copyright © 2024 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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Ye Tian, Hui-Min Jian, Chun-Ying Liu, Jiang-Chen Gong, Pei-Feng Li, Gui-Peng Yang. Distribution and influencing factors of atmospheric nitrogen oxides (NOx) over the east coast of China in spring: Indication of the sea as a sink of the atmospheric NOx. Marine pollution bulletin. 2024 Mar;200:116095