Abstract
A “rain-only” method is proposed to find out the precipitation effect on particle aerosol removal from the atmosphere, and this method is not only unique and novel but also very simple and can be easily adapted to predict aerosol particle scavenging over any region across the world irrespective of the topographical, orographical, and climatic features. By using this simple method, the influences of the rain intensity and particle mass concentration on the aerosol scavenging efficiency are discussed. The results show that a higher concentration, a higher rain intensity, and a larger particle size lead to a higher scavenging efficiency and a higher scavenging rate. The greater the rain intensity, the higher the scavenging efficiency. The scavenging efficiency of PM10 by precipitation is better than that of PM2.5. When the rain intensity is 10 mm h−1, the scavenging efficiency of PM2.5 reaches 5.1 μg m−3 h−1, and the scavenging efficiency of PM10 reaches 15.8 μg m−3 h−1. The scavenging rate increases faster when accumulative precipitation is below 15 mm. The scavenging rate has obvious monthly variation, and the scavenging rate of coastal areas is less than that of inland Jiangsu. The growth of the particle mass concentration after precipitation is divided into two stages: the rapid growth stage after precipitation ends, and the slow growth stage about 24 h after precipitation ends.
Subject
Atmospheric Science,Environmental Science (miscellaneous)
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12 articles.
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