Introducing the novel concept of cumulative concentration roses for studying the transport of ultrafine particles from an airport to adjacent residential areas

Author:

Seidler Julius,Friedrich Markus N.,Thomas Christoph K.ORCID,Nölscher Anke C.ORCID

Abstract

Abstract. Airports are often surrounded by urban residential areas, which is both a motivation and challenge for studying their potential impact on local air quality. Airports are a relevant source of ultrafine particles (UFPs), which can pose a risk to human health due to their small size (particle diameter Dp≤100 nm). However, in urban environments, UFPs originate from a multitude of biogenic and anthropogenic sources. Here, we investigate UFPs in close proximity to an airport to disentangle their impact on local air quality from other urban sources. We present observations and analyses of airborne UFP concentrations and size distributions determined at two sites in close proximity to Munich Airport. Therefore, two novel measurement stations were established north and south of the airport but were neither situated on the axis of prevailing wind directions nor impacted by fly overs. This set-up allowed us to explore a mainly advection-driven distribution of UFPs into the most populated adjacent residential areas. The observation period covered a full year from August 2021 to July 2022. We analysed the data set in three steps. (1) First, we derived UFP concentration roses using the wind data as reported at 10 m height at the airport to represent the local wind field. An increase in particle number concentrations and a shift of the modal maximum towards smaller mobility diameters became evident for wind directions, including those approaching from the airport. During the airport's operation hours during the daytime, median particle number concentrations were 2.2- and 1.6-fold compared to nighttime at the northern station and the southern station. However, our data had a high variability, and the direction-based analysis was uncertain due to other potential UFP sources in the surroundings and the assumption of a homogeneous, local wind field. (2) Next, we derived concentration roses employing the airflow observations from the two measuring stations at 5.3 m height. While the annual concentration rose in principle yielded the same conclusions as the first analysis step, a significant seasonal and diurnal variability of UFPs and wind became evident. The influencing factors were likely other urban local UFP sources, an increased surface roughness due to green vegetation, and the atmospheric boundary layer development. (3) In order to assess the possible advection of UFPs from the direction of Munich Airport relative to all other directions over the course of the year, we calculated cumulative concentration roses with both local- and site-scale wind data. Under the assumption of a homogeneous local wind field, the fraction of all UFPs sampled in airflows approaching from the airport's direction was 21 % (N322) and 40 % (S229). Considering a local background, the range of UFP advection from Munich Airport to the adjacent residential areas was up to 10 % in the north and 14 % in the south. It has to be noted that these values highlight the relative magnitude of the maximum impact of the airport on local air quality as they do not distinguish between UFP sources from the airport and other measuring sites. Additionally, they integrate over a time period during which the airport did not reach its full capacity compared to pre-COVID-19 times.

Funder

Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Umwelt und Verbraucherschutz

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Publisher

Copernicus GmbH

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