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Enhanced sulfate formation during China's severe winter haze episode in January 2013 missing from current models
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A regional haze with daily PM 2.5 (fine particulate matters with diameters less than 2.5 µm) exceeding 500 µg/m 3 lasted for several days in January 2013 over North China, offering an opportunity to evaluate models. Observations show that inorganic aerosols (sulfate, nitrate, and ammonium) are the largest contributor to PM 2.5 during the haze period, while sulfate shows the largest enhancement ratio of 5.4 from the clean to haze period. The nested‐grid GEOS‐Chem model reproduces the distribution of PM 2.5 and simulates up to 364 µg/m 3 of daily maximum PM 2.5. Yet on average, the model is a factor of 3 and 4 lower in PM 2.5 and fails to capture the large sulfate enhancement from the clean to haze period. A doubling of SO 2 emissions over North China, along with daily meteorology corrections, would be required to reconcile model results with surface SO 2 observations, but it is not sufficient to explain the model discrepancy in sulfate. Heterogeneous uptake of SO 2 on deliquesced aerosols is proposed as an additional source of sulfate under high‐relative humidity conditions during the haze period. Parameterizing this process in the model improves the simulated spatial distribution and results in a 70% increase of sulfate enhancement ratio and a 120% increase in sulfate fraction in PM 2.5. Combined adjustments in emissions, meteorology, and sulfate chemistry lead to higher sulfate by a factor of 3 and 50% higher PM 2.5, significantly reducing the model's low bias during the haze.
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- Wang, Y., Zhang, Q., Jiang, J., Zhou, W., Wang, B., He, K., Duan, F., Zhang, Q., Philip, S., & Xie, Y.
- Venue
- Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
- Publisher
- American Geophysical Union (AGU)
- Published
- 2014-09-11
- Volume
- 119
- Issue
- 17
- ISSN
- 0148-0227 (ISSN-L)
- 2169-897X
- 2169-8996
- OpenAlex
- W1841136326
- Cited by
- 366
- References
- 42
- FWCI
- 12.36
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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