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L. Luo1, X. H. Yao2, H. W. Gao2, S. C. Hsu3, J. W. Li4, and S. J. Kao1
1State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361102, China
2Key laboratory of Marine Environmental Science and Ecology, Ministry of Education, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, China
3Research Center for Environmental Changes, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
4Key Laboratory of Regional Climate-Environment for Temperate East Asia, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China
Correspondence to: S. J. Kao ([email protected])
Received: 25 June 2015 Published in Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss.: 18 September 2015 Revised: 4 December 2015 Accepted: 13 December 2015 Published: 18 January 2016
Abstract. The cumulative atmospheric nitrogen deposition has been found to profoundly impact the nutrient stoichiometry of the eastern China seas (ECSs: the Yellow Sea and East China Sea) and the northwestern Pacic Ocean (NWPO). In spite of the potential signicance of dry deposition in those regions, shipboard observations of atmospheric aerosols remain insufcient, particularly regarding the compositions of water-soluble nitrogen species (nitrate, ammonium and water-soluble organic nitrogen WSON). We conducted a cruise covering the ECSs and the NWPO during the spring of 2014 and observed three types of atmospheric aerosols. Aluminum content, air mass backward trajectories, weather conditions, and ion stoichiometry allowed us to discern dust aerosol patches and sea-fog-modied aerosols (widespread over the ECSs) from background aerosols (open ocean). Among the three types, sea-fog-modied aerosols contained the highest concentrations of nitrate (536 300 nmol N m3),
ammonium (442 194 nmol N m3) and WSON
(147 171 nmol N m3); furthermore, ammonium and
nitrate together occupied 65 % of the molar fraction
of total ions. The dust aerosols also contained signicant amounts of nitrate (100 23 nmol N m3) and ammonium
(138 24 nmol N m3) which were obviously larger than
those in the background aerosols (26 32 for nitrate and
54 45 nmol N m3 for ammonium), yet this was not
the case for WSON. It appeared that dust aerosols had less of a chance to come in contact with WSON during
Nitrogen speciation in various types of aerosols in spring over the northwestern Pacic Ocean
their transport. In the open ocean, we found that sea salt (e.g., Na+, Cl, Mg2+), as well as WSON, correlated positively with wind speed. Apparently, marine dissolved organic nitrogen (DON) was emitted from breaking waves. Regardless of the variable wind speeds from 0.8 to as high as 18 m s1, nitrate and ammonium, by contrast, remained in narrow ranges, implying that some supply and consumption processes of nitrate and ammonium were required to maintain such a quasi-static condition. Mean dry deposition of total dissolved nitrogen (TDN) for sea-fog-modied aerosols (1090 671 mol N m2 d1) was 5 times higher
than that for dust aerosols (190 41.6 mol N m2 d1) and
around 20 times higher than that for background aerosols(56.8 59.1 mol N m2 d1). Apparently, spring sea fog on
the ECSs played an important role in removing atmospheric reactive nitrogen from the Chinese mainland and depositing it into the ECSs, thus effectively preventing its seaward export to the NWPO.
1 Introduction
Anthropogenic reactive nitrogen (Nr) emissions have dramatically increased in the last few decades owing to rapidly growing populations and industry (Galloway et al., 2008). China is one of the largest producers and emitters of Nr in the world (Nr emission of 12.18 Tg yr1; Reis et al., 2009).
Inevitably, large amounts of Nr emanate into the adjacent
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seas through various pathways. Through the atmosphere, annual nitrogen depositions into the eastern China seas (ECSs: the Yellow Sea and East China Sea) had been reported to be the same order of magnitude carried by the Yangtze River discharge (Nakamura et al., 2005; Zhang et al., 2007).Both observational data and global models revealed that both of the Chinese marginal seas and the northwestern Pacic Ocean (NWPO) are under the atmospheric inuence of the Asian continent, which supplied signicant amounts of anthropogenic Nr (Duce et al., 2008) and terrigenous materials (Jickells et al., 2005). The cumulative effect of atmospheric input in the past decades even altered the nutrient stoichiometry on a regional scale, including the Chinese marginal seas and the North Pacic Ocean (Kim et al., 2011; Kim et al., 2014).
To better constrain atmospheric deposition of Nr into the ocean over large spatial and temporal scales, modeling the transport and deposition of air pollutants is essential. Models of atmospheric nitrogen deposition include abundant parameters, such as local emission densities, particle size, deposition velocity, chemical processes and meteorological conditions (Liu et al., 2005; Guenther et al., 2006; Kanakidou et al., 2012). However, model accuracy strongly relies on the validation by observational data. Unfortunately, shipboard observations, particularly for an offshore gradient from marginal seas to the open sea, are still limited.
In the marginal seas of China, dust and fog storms are two common intermittent weather events during the transition period from a cold to a warm season (Sun et al., 2001; Zhang et al., 2009). Dust aerosols may serve as a carrier bringing signicant amounts of terrigenous and anthropogenic nger-prints including trace elements (Duce et al., 1980) and Nr (Chen and Chen, 2008) from inland into the open sea via long-range transport. By contrast, sea fog is relatively stagnant and restricted on a spatial scale. Fog is the intermediate stage between precipitation and aerosol. Fog forms by the activation of particulates with subsequent growth and incorporation of other gases and particles (Cape et al., 2011). Fog droplets are smaller in size when compared to rain drops; however, concentrations of water-soluble species in fog water were not necessarily higher or lower than those of precipitation because of complicated chemical processes (Sasakawa and Uematsu, 2002; Watanabe et al., 2006; Jung et al., 2013).Inland fog chemistry has been well studied and its impacts on terrestrial ecosystems have been highlighted (Chang et al., 2002; Lange et al., 2003). Researchers have even designed experiments to investigate the differences in aerosol chemistry for pre- and post-fog formation periods to explore the inland fog impact on aerosol chemistry (Biswas et al., 2008;Safai et al., 2008). Fog, in fact, can be sampled only by specialized fog samplers; however, during aerosol sampling at sea there is no way to avoid fog once sea fog forms. Nevertheless, the effect of sea fog on aerosol chemistry has not yet been well studied, even less so in the coastal and marginal seas of China, where air pollution is serious. Therefore, com-
pared with inland fog and dust aerosols, we have less knowledge about sea fog chemistry and the aerosol chemistry under sea fog inuence. This is the rst investigation of Nr speciation and deposition of sea-fog-modied aerosols (aerosol collected under sea fog inuence) on the marginal seas off a continent producing strong emissions.
Different types of aerosols may be composed of different amounts of nitrogen species based on their formation history (e.g., origin, ow path, reactions during transport).In this study, we sampled total suspended particulate (TSP) marine aerosols on a cruise crossing over the ECSs and NWPO during spring 2014. Water-soluble nitrogen species and ion characteristics among different aerosol types, including dust, background and sea-fog-modied aerosols, were investigated. These observational data promoted our understanding of the type-specic concentration and deposition of various nitrogen species and the role of sea fog on nitrogen scavenging. The data may aid in validating model outputs for the Asian region and potentially evaluate the framework of nitrogen and aerosol interactions in current models.
2 Materials and methods
2.1 Aerosol sample collection and chemical analyses
A total of 44 TSP samples were collected using a high-volume TSP aerosol sampler (TE5170D; Tisch Environmental Inc.) during a research cruise on the R/V Dongfanghong II from 17 March to 22 April 2014. The cruise tracks (Fig. 1) covered the ECSs and the NWPO. The samples were taken at 12 h intervals. To avoid self-
contamination from the research vessel, we sampled only when the vessel was cruising; thus, the sampling interval was not exactly 12 h. Based on simultaneous 1 s particle number concentration measurements made using an optical particle sizer (TSI, USA), we found that ship plumes affected the TSP sampling occasionally during cruising (these data will be presented in a separate paper). We calculated the plume contribution to the measured volume particle concentration of PM10 during each TSP sampling (self-contamination) and the short-period contribution was less than 3 %. Detailed sampling information including date, time period and locations for each sample are listed in Table S1 in the Supplement. Meteorological data (Fig. 2) including wind speed and direction, relative humidity (RH) and temperature were recorded onboard.
The cruise encountered sea fog in the rst few days (orange shading in Fig. 2 for 1719 March) and ve samples (nos. 15) were collected. Surprisingly, sea fog occurred again on 2122 April, while approaching land (samples nos. 43 and 44). During the fog events, high RH and slow wind speed were recorded (see orange shading in Fig. 2).The strong temperature gradient indicated that the sea fog formed owing to a cold air mass from land confronting warm
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Figure 1. Map of the cruise track. Orange, pink and blue indicate sea fog, dust and background days during the cruise, respectively. Sample number and the collection range are shown.
air from the sea. Since these samples were collected on fog days (see orange tracks in Fig. 1) when we could collect aerosols, the sea-fog-modied the aerosols as well as sea fog droplets. Since we could not separate them from each other through our method, we classied these samples as sea-fogmodied aerosol.
Whatman 41 cellulose lters (Whatman Limited, Maid-stone, UK) were used for ltration. The analytical procedures were described by Hsu et al. (2010b, 2014). Briey, one-eighth of the lter was extracted using 15 mL of Milli-Q water on a reciprocating shaker for 0.5 h and left to rest for an additional 0.5 h at room temperature. Then, the extract was ltered through a polycarbonate membrane lter (0.4 m pore size and 47 mm in diameter from Nuclepore). The lter was leached three times with Milli-Q water, and then 5 mL of Milli-Q water was used to rinse the lter. The 45 mL extract solution was mixed with the 5 mL from rinsing, poured into a 50 mL clean plastic centrifuge tube and used for the determination of the ion species and water-soluble aluminum (Al).
The water-soluble and total concentrations of Al in the TSPs were analyzed using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometers (ICP-MS). For total Al, briey, one-eighth of the lter was digested with an acid mixture (4 mL HNO3 + 2 mL HF) using an ultra-high-throughput mi
crowave digestion system (MARSXpress, CEM Corporation, Matthews, NC, USA), and the efciency of the digestion scheme was checked by subjecting a certain amount of a standard reference material (SRM1648, urban particulate matter, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA) to the same treatment. The recoveries of Al in the SRM 1648 through digestion with the HNO3HF mixture fell within 10 % (n = 5) of the certied values. De
tails regarding the ICP-MS analysis are described in Hsu et al. (2008).
The major ionic species (Na+, NH+4, K+, Mg2+, Ca2+, Cl, NO3, NO2 and SO24) in the extract were analyzed using an ion chromatograph (model ICS-1100 for anions
Figure 2. The meteorological parameters collected during the sampling period (solid line). Wind speed is in purple, wind direction in green, RH in blue and temperature in red. The orange shadings indicate the period of sea fog contact and pink indicate the dust period. Non-sampling period is shown with dashed curves.
and model ICS-900 for cations) equipped with a conductivity detector (ASRS-ULTRA) and suppressor (ASRS-300 for the ICS-1100 and CSRS-300 for the ICS-900). Separator columns (AS11-HC for anions and CS12A for cations) and guard columns (AG11-HC for anions and CG12A for cations) were used in the analyses. The precision for all ionic species was better than 5 %. Details of the analytical processes can be found in Hsu et al. (2014). Only ve samples contained NO2 (1.39 nmol m3 for no. 2, 2.32 nmol m3 for no. 4, 3.69 nmol m3 for no. 5, 5.96 nmol m3 for no. 43 and3.76 nmol m3 for no. 44), which accounted for < 1 % of the total dissolved nitrogen (TDN).
The TDN was analyzed using the wet oxidation method to convert all nitrogen species into nitrate with re-crystallized potassium persulfate, and then the concentration of nitrate was measured using chemiluminescence (Knapp et al., 2005). Monitoring with laboratory stock (NO3 + NH+4 + glycine + EDTA) showed that the recover
ies of TDN by the persulfate oxidizing reagent (POR) digestion fell within 95105 % (n = 6) over the range of detection.
2.2 Data analysis
The amounts of non-sea-salt Ca2+ (nss-Ca2+) and non-sea-salt SO24 (nss-SO24) in the aerosol, as well as the Ca2+ and SO24 fractions in excess over that expected from sea salt, were calculated using the unit of equivalent concentration (neq m3) in the following equations:
[nssCa2+] = [Ca2+] [ssCa2+],where [ssCa2+] = 0.044 [Na+], (1)
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[nssSO24] = [SO24] [ssSO24],where [ssSO24] = 0.121 [Na+], (2)
where the factors 0.044 and 0.121 are the typical calcium-to-sodium and sulfate-to-sodium equivalent molar ratios in seawater (Chester, 1990).
Relative acidity (RA) was calculated using all the observed ion species in their equivalent concentrations following Yao and Zhang (2012):
RA = ([Na+] + [Mg2+] + [K+] + [Ca2+]
+ [NH+4])/([Cl] + [NO3] + [SO24]), (3)
where [Na+], [Mg2+], [K+], [Ca2+], [NH+4], [Cl], [NO3] and [SO24] are the equivalent concentrations of those water-extracted ions. The relative acidity is based on the imbalance of cations and anions, which was caused by the non-detected ions such as H+, HCO3 and CO23 (Kerminen et al., 2001).
When the total ions were distributed over a wide range (by a factor of 20 in our case), the ratio of total anions to cations in neq m3 is more effective in presenting the relative acidity than the absolute value of imbalance (total cations total anions).
The concentration of water-soluble organic nitrogen (WSON) was calculated using the following equation:
[WSON] = [TDN] [NO3] [NH+4] [NO2], (4) where [TDN], [NO3], [NH+4] and [NO2] are molar con
centrations (nmol N m3) of those water-soluble nitrogen species in TSPs. The standard errors propagated through
WSON calculation varied from sample to sample (17 to 1500 %). The average standard error was 116 % when all samples were considered, and when the extreme value was excluded, the average standard error was reduced to 81 %.
2.3 Flux calculation
The dry deposition ux (F ) was calculated by multiplying the aerosol concentrations of water-soluble nitrogen speciation (C) by the dry deposition velocity (V ):
F = C V, (5) where V is a primarily function of particle size and meteorological parameters, such as wind speed, RH and sea surface roughness (Duce et al., 1991). According to previous reports, dry deposition velocity varies by more than 3 orders of magnitude at a particle size ranging from 0.1 to 100 m (Hoppel et al., 2002). In general, ammonium appears in sub-micron mode from 0.1 to 1 m, with a small fraction residing in the coarser mode; however, nitrate is mainly distributed in a supermicron size ranging from 1 to 10 m (Nakamura et al., 2005; Baker et al., 2010; Yao and Zhang, 2012; Hsu
et al., 2014). The non-single-mode size distribution appears in not just nitrogenous elements but also metals, including aluminum and iron (e.g., Baker et al., 2013). Thus, for any compound or elements, using a xed deposition velocity to calculate dry deposition ux might cause under- or overestimation, as discussed by Baker et al. (2013). Unfortunately, we collected TSPs with no information for size distributions. Meanwhile, the meteorological parameters were highly variable during sample collection. In our observation wind speed ranging from 0.8 to 18 m s1 under a RH ranging from 40 to 100 % (Fig. 2). Thus, it is very difcult to provide variable dry deposition velocities under a wide range of environmental conditions (Hoppel et al., 2002; Baker et al., 2013); thus, assumptions were made based on existing knowledge. Based on the model and experimental results for aerosol deposition to the sea surface (Duce et al., 1991; Hoppel et al., 2002) and the size distribution of nitrate and ammonium in particles as reported above, deposition velocity of 2 cm s1 was applied for nitrate and 0.1 cm s1 for ammonium. Both deposition velocities were often used in calculating the specic nitrogen deposition uxes, especially for the maritime aerosols, though uncertainties were involved (de Leeuw et al., 2003; Nakamura et al., 2005; Chen et al., 2010; Jung et al., 2013). As for WSON, the size distribution of WSON in previous studies showed that WSON appears in a wide size spectrum (Chen et al., 2010; Lesworth et al., 2010; Srinivas et al., 2011). In previous studies, different orders of magnitude of deposition velocity were employed for WSON deposition (1.2 cm s1 by He et al., 2011; 0.1 cm s1 for ne and 1.0 cm s1 for coarse by Srinivas et al., 2011;
0.075 cm s1 for ne and 1.25 cm s1 for coarse by Violaki et al., 2010). Our TSP aerosols covered the entire size distribution; thus, 1.0 cm s1 was applied for WSON deposition.
Since 1.0 cm s1 is near the upper boundary of velocities previously applied for WSON deposition, our calculation of
WSON deposition may represent the upper boundary.
Note that a period of our aerosol sampling was inuenced by sea fog, which we could not avoid as mentioned earlier in the Introduction. Apparently, the deposition velocity for seafog-modied aerosol differs from that of common aerosol, thus, the deposition velocity needs to be revised once we have sufcient knowledge about the inuence of sea fog on aerosol deposition.
2.4 Air mass backward trajectory analysis
In order to investigate the likely origins of aerosols in the transporting air masses, 3 days with three heights of above-sea-level air mass backward trajectories were calculated using the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Hybrid Single Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory (HYSPLIT) model with a 1 1 latitudelongitude
grid and the nal meteorological database. Details about the HYSPLIT model can be found at https://ready.arl.noaa.gov/HYSPLIT.php
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Laboratory. The time period of 3 days was suggested to be sufcient for dust transport from dust source to the NWPO (Husar et al., 2001). The three heights (100, 500 and 1000 m) were selected because 1000 m can be taken as one of the typical atmospheric boundary layers (Hennemuth and Lammert, 2006).
3 Results and discussion
Using the Al content, air mass backward trajectories, weather conditions, and ion stoichiometry, we classied aerosols into three types and then discussed the speciation and concentrations of Nr for each aerosol type as well as the potential processes involved. We compared the chemical characteristics of dust aerosols collected in the ECSs with ours under sea fog inuence. Global aerosol and precipitation WSON data were also compiled to reveal the signicance of WSON. Finally, we estimated the deposition of individual nitrogen species for the three types of aerosol and highlighted the importance of atmospheric nitrogen deposition in different regions.
3.1 Aerosol type classication
Total Al content in aerosol samples is an often used index to identify dust events (Hsu et al., 2008). As shown in Fig. 3, the total Al concentrations in aerosols ranged from 52 to 6293 ng m3 during our entire cruise. For the rst three samples (from nos. 1 to 3 collected in the Yellow Sea), total Al increased from 1353 to 6293 ng m3, and then rapidly decreased (nos. 4 and 5 in the East China Sea) as the cruise moved eastward to the NWPO (orange shading in Fig. 3).When the cruise returned to the ECSs, the total Al concentrations in the aerosols (nos. 43 and 44) increased once again.Apparently, an abundance of dust is frequently present in the low atmosphere over the Chinese marginal seas in spring.The air mass backward trajectories by HYSPLIT (Fig. 4a) revealed that the air masses for these fog samples mainly hovered over the ECSs at an altitude of < 500 m and the air masses for nos. 15 originated from the east coast of China.The air masses for the samples of nos. 4344 were from southern South Korea. The water-soluble Al followed the same pattern as total Al (Fig. 3), but the leachable concentrations were signicantly higher when compared with dust aerosols reported for the same area. The relative acidity of aerosols showed that the values of sea-fog-modied aerosols were all below 0.9 (Fig. 3), indicating an enhanced acidication relative to those aerosols with sea fog inuence. The low RA values explained the higher concentrations of water-soluble Al.
As for sample nos. 6, 7, 2527 and 29 collected in the NWPO (see pink tracks in Fig. 1), the total Al concentrations ranged from 590 to 1480 ng m3 with an average of 1025 316 ng m3 (pink shading in Fig. 3),
which were signicantly higher than the remaining sam-
Figure 3. Total and water-soluble Al concentrations and relative acidity (RA) for TSP. The orange bars indicate the sea fog period, and the pink bars indicate the dust period. Sample identications are shown on the x axis (see Table S1). The horizontal blue dashed line (590 ng m3) stands for the reference to dene background aerosols, and black dashed line indicates the criterion of 0.9 for relative acidity.
ples (212 120 ng m3) from the NWPO. Although most
of the air mass backward trajectories of these samples collected in the NWPO originated from 25 to 40 N (and beyond) as well as high altitude (Fig. 4b), the lidar browse images from NASA (Fig. S1) clearly indicated that the air masses of these aerosol samples pass through dusty regions.The consistency between high total Al concentration and the occurrence of dust and polluted dust dened by the lidar browse images from the NASA allowed us to separate dust aerosols from background aerosols. In this paper, background aerosols stand for non-dusty and non-foggy aerosol in our classication. Thus, the background aerosol is more like a baseline aerosol collected within this study region during the investigating period; thus, the background may vary over space and time and it does not necessarily have to be pristine. Below we can also see a discernable ion stoichiometry among the three types.
3.2 Ion stoichiometry in three types of aerosol
Excluding sea-fog-modied aerosols, all the ratios of total anions and total cations followed close to a 1 : 1 linear relationship (Fig. 5a). Such a well-dened positive relationship indicated the charge balance and further emphasized the validity of our measurements. The sea-fog-modied aerosols in the ECSs contained higher contents of anions than cations, which was consistent with previous observations for fog water (Chang et al., 2002; Lange et al., 2003; Yue et al., 2014).The non-measured H+ ion should be the dominant cation for charge compensation, as indicated previously (Chang et al., 2002; Lange et al., 2003). The low RA values for sea-fogmodied aerosols also supported this notion (Fig. 3). Below we set out the characteristics of the three types of aerosol with ion stoichiometry.
Since the Cl / Na+ ratios of all samples including seafog-modied aerosols (Fig. 5b) were near 1.17, this indi-
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Figure 4. Map and cruise track superimposed on 3-day air mass backward trajectories corresponding to each sample. Altitudes of 100 m a.s.l. (triangles), 500 m a.s.l. (asterisks) and 1000 m a.s.l. (squares) are above sea level during the collection of (a) sea-fogmodied aerosols, (b) dust aerosols and (c) background aerosols. The color bar represents the altitude (in km).
cated that almost all the Na and Cl for our aerosols originated from sea salt. The relationship between Mg2+ vs. Na+ (Fig. 5c) indicated that almost all Mg2+ also originated from sea salt sources (Mg / Nass = 0.23), except sea-fog-modied
aerosols, which held a deviated correlation due to Mg enrichment (y = 0.32x+8.7, R2 = 0.88) because of terrestrial min
eral sources of Mg. Such Mg enrichment was not observed in summer sea fog in the subarctic North Pacic Ocean (Jung et al., 2013).
As for Ca2+ (Fig. 5d), all types of aerosol were enriched in Ca2+ but at different levels, indicating various degrees of terrestrial mineral inuence on the marine aerosols. For background aerosols, a strong correlation between Ca2+ and Na+ (y = 0.044x + 6.6, R2 = 0.92) was observed. The slope was
identical to that of sea water (Ca / Nass = 0.044), suggest
ing that most Ca2+ and Na+ in background aerosols were sourced from sea salt. An unusually high regression slope (20 times that of the sea salt) observed between Ca2+ and Na+ in sea-fog-modied aerosols (y = 0.90x 1.8, R2 = 0.71) was
attributable to the reaction between mineral CaCO3 and H+
Figure 5. Scatter plots for equivalent concentrations of specic ions. (a) Total anions vs. total cations, (b) chloride vs. sodium,(c) magnesium vs. sodium, (d) calcium vs. sodium, (e) potassium vs. sodium, (f) ammonium vs. nss-sulfate, (g)
P(nitrate + nss-
P(nss-calcium + ammonium) and (h) nitrate vs. ammonium. Orange, pink and blue are for sea-fog-modied, dust and background aerosols, respectively.
in fog droplets during the formation of sea fog (Yue et al., 2012). The more excessive Ca2+ observed in dust aerosols implied that stronger heterogeneous reactions between the acid gas and dust minerals had occurred during long-range transport (Hsu et al., 2014). Similar to Ca2+, patterns between K+ and Na+ can also be seen in Fig. 5e. However, besides the contribution from inland dust (Savoie and Prospero, 1980), excess K+ may also originate from biomass burning in China (Hsu et al., 2009). Note that statistically signicant intercepts could be seen in Ca2+ against Nass and K+ against
Nass scatter plots for background aerosols. Although small, such excesses in Ca2+ and K+ relative to Na+ in widespread background aerosols deserve further explanation.
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As shown in Fig. 5f, a correlation was found between NH+4 and nss-SO24. Except for three sea fog samples, all ratios fell close to the 1 : 1 regression line, suggesting the dominance of (NH4)2SO4 rather than NH4HSO4. Complete neutralization of NH+4 by nss-SO24 had likely occurred, and a similar phenomenon was found elsewhere (Zhang et al., 2013; Hsu et al., 2014).
The ratio of [NO3 + nss-SO24] / [NH+4 + nss-Ca2+] for
background aerosols (Fig. 5g) closely followed unity, thus suggesting that NH+4 + nss-Ca2+ was neutralized by the
acidic ions NO3 and nss-SO24. However, for the dust and foggy aerosols, [NO3 + nss-SO24] / [NH+4 + nss-Ca2+] ra
tios located between 1 : 1 and 2 : 1 indicated that the excess anthropogenic acidic ions that originated from coal fossil fuel combustion and vehicle exhaust had been transported to the ECSs and NWPO by the Asian winter monsoon as previously indicated (Hsu et al., 2010a). On the other hand, Liu et al. (2013) suggested that NHx emission in China is important and may play a major role in neutralizing the acidic ions. As shown in Fig. 5h, the scatter plot of NH+4 against
NO3, revealed that almost all dust and background aerosols sampled in the NWPO had NH+4 / NO3 ratios larger than 1, which is common in aerosol observation. However, signicantly enriched NO3 in sea-fog-modied aerosols drew the ratio down to < 1. Such high nitrate to ammonium ratios had been observed in a previous study of sea fog water collected from the South China Sea (Yue et al., 2012). In summary, the three types of aerosol had distinctive features in nitrogen speciation and ion stoichiometry including relative acidity (Fig. 6a), further supporting our aerosol type classication.
3.3 Nitrogen speciation and associated processes in different types of aerosol
3.3.1 Sea-fog-modied aerosols
Only a few studies concerning water-soluble nitrogen species in sea fog water have been published (Sasakawa and Uematsu, 2002; Yue et al., 2012; Jung et al., 2013). To the best of our knowledge, ours includes the rst rst-hand data from the Chinese marginal seas (the ECSs) in spring concerning water-soluble nitrogen species in aerosols collected under the inuence of sea fog. As shown in Table 1 and Fig. 6a, in sea-fog-modied aerosols the concentrations of nitrate ranged from 160 to 1118 nmol N m3 with a mean of 536 300 nmol N m3, and ammonium was slightly lower
than nitrate, ranging from 228 to 777 nmol N m3 with a mean of 442 194 nmol N m3. WSON in sea-fog-modied
aerosols was the lowest nitrogen species ranging from 23 to 517 nmol N m3 with a mean of 147 171 nmol N m3 (Ta
ble 1 and Fig. 6a). The sea-fog-modied aerosols contained 211 times higher concentration of nitrate, 26 times higher ammonium and 36 times higher WSON when compared with aerosols in the ECSs and other regions (Table 1). Such
Figure 6. Box plots for (a) concentrations of NO
3 , NH+
4 , WSON
and nss-Ca2+, and RA, and (b) fractions of nitrogen species in total dissolved nitrogen and proportion of nss-Ca2+ in Ca2+, in sea-fogmodied, dust and background aerosols. The large boxes represent the interquartile range from the 25th to 75th percentile. The line inside the box indicates the median value. The whiskers extend upward to the 90th and downward to the 10th percentile.
high concentrations of Nr not only highlighted the seriousness of the nitrogen air pollution in Chinese marginal seas but also underscored that water-soluble nitrogen species can be scavenged efciently during sea fog formation.
Since no chemistry data of sea-fog-modied aerosols had been reported before, we can only compare with the dust aerosols from the same regions in spring. The concentrations of leachable ions, water-soluble Al, and total Al and RA for dust aerosols and sea-fog-modied aerosols sampled in the ECSs are listed in Table 2. The seven sea-fog-modied aerosols were distinctive in chemical characteristics. For all except NH+4, NO3 and SO24, sea-fog-modied aerosols had lower or similar molar concentrations relative to dust aerosols. The anthropogenic species, particularly NO3 and
NH+4, were the most abundant ions in the sea-fog-modied aerosols. However, Na+ and Cl were the highest among all the ions in dust aerosols from the island of Jeju and the
East China Sea. Taking Jeju as an example, the concentration levels of Na+ and Cl were similar to those of our seafog-modied aerosols, yet both NO3 and NH+4 in sea-fogmodied aerosols were > 6 times higher than those from the island of Jeju.
The pie charts for ion fractions of aerosols from the ECSs are shown in Fig. 7. Note that the fraction distribution of ions for the dust aerosols from a previous cruise in the ECSs (n = 8, Fig. 7b; Hsu et al., 2010b) resembled that collected
from the island of Jeju (n = 49, Fig. 7c; Kang et al., 2009) de-
spite the fact that their sampling was performed in different
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aPercentageintotaldissolvednitrogen. bBbindicatesbiomassburning. cCalculatedvaluefromtheoriginaldata.
PM2.5 10 0.2 0.1 0.3 0.1 0.2 0.4 26 39 35
PM2.5 Jan 2007 Middle S. Atlantic Remote ocean 1.3 0.8 51
PM1.3 2005, 2006 Crete, Greece 1.5 1.3 70 35 12 14 2 85 13
PM2.5 JanDec 2005 Indian Ocean Remote ocean 0.3 0.2 1.3 1.0 0.8 1.4 14 53 32 Violaki et al. (2015)
TSP(pollution)22 11 23 24 3.7 2.8 45
c48 c8 c
PM1.3 10 2005, 2006 Crete, Greece Island 26 9 8.9 4.0 5.5 3.9 64 23 13 Violaki and Mihalopoulos (2010)
TSP(Bb) b11 11 18 13 3.3 2.0 34
c56 c10 c
TSP(Bb) b28 16 48 48 6.2 6.4 34
c58 c8 cZamoraetal.(2011)
TSPJanDec2006Keelong,TaiwanCoastcity76 28 26
cChenetal.(2010)
TSP(seaspray)6.7 2.7 4.2 1.7 0.5 0.3 59
c37 c4 cZamoraetal.(2011)
TSPAug2003Sep2005GulfofAqabaCoast39 19 25 14 8 5 53
c34 c11 cChenetal.(2007)
TSPNovDec2000TasmaniaIsland11 7 2.6 3.0 3.6 5.7 63 15 21 Mace et al. (2003a)
TSPAugSep2008NWPRemoteocean1.8 1.5 1.2 1.1 1.1 0.93 43
c30 c28 cMiyazakietal.(2011)
TSPApr2007Mar2008Marina,SingaporeUrban50 31
c14 8
c56 22
c40 15
c11 6
c49 17
cHeetal.(2011)
TSPJulAug2008NWPORemoteocean2.55.6Jungetal.(2013)
TSPSpring20032004NortheastECSIsland85 47
c133 78
cKunduetal.(2010)
TSPMar2005Apr2007SouthwestECSShelf38 45 89 76 Hsu et al. (2010b)
TSPSepOct2002ECSShelf34 c136 c54 36 15
c61 c24Nakamuraetal.(2006)
TSPMar2004ECSShelf39 c91 c16 19 27
c62 c10
TSPMar2005,Apr2006YellowSeaShelf20Shietal.(2010a)
TSPApr2010NorthwestECSIsland111 c76 cZhuetal.(2013)
TSPMar2011NorthwestECSIsland137 c202 cZhuetal.(2013)
TSPFebMar2007NorthwestECSShelf68 c193 cShietal.(2010b)
TSP(dust)Feb1992May2004IslandofJejuIsland71 44
c72 48
cKangetal.(2009)
Table1.Nitrogenspeciationinvariousaerosolsreportedfromdifferentregions.
TSP(dust)May2007July2009Miami,FL,AtlanticCoastcity28 9 26 10 3.0 2.0 50
c45 c5 c
PM>2 (dust) Tropic Atlantic Ocean 14 Violaki et al. (2015)
TSP(dust)Mar2005Apr2007SouthwestECSShelf84 98 177 151 Hsu et al. (2010b)
TSP(dust)AugSep2007,2008Barbados,AtlanticIsland10 4 11 7 1.4 1.3 45
c49 c6 cZamoraetal.(2011)
TSP(seafog)MarApr2014ECSsShelf536 300 442 194 147 171 48 7 42 9 10 6 This study
TSP(dust)MarApr2014NWPORemoteocean100 23 138 24 11.2 4.0 41 5 56 7 5 2 This study
TSP(bgd.)MarApr2014NWPORemoteocean26 32 54 45 10.9 6.8 27 9 60 11 14 8 This study
SampletypeDateLocationNO
3 NH +
4 WSON NO
3 NH +
4 WSON Reference
nmolm 3 nmol m 3 nmol m 3 % a % a % a
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Table 2. Mean molar concentrations (nmol m3) of major ionic species together with Al (ng m3) in sea-fog-modied aerosols and dust aerosols in the ECS.
Sea foga Dustb Dustc mean SD mean SD mean SD
Na+ 123.2 97.5 294.8 238.3 130.4 85.2
NH+
4 441.5 193.9 177.6 150.7 72.2 47.7
Mg2+ 24.1 16.5 41.2 32.4 25.0 12.9
K+ 17.5 9.9 21.8 19.1 17.9 9.2
Ca2+ 54.7 52.2 61.7 39.5 76.9 58.5
Cl 125.2 111.3 280.9 349.1 121.3 101.6
NO
3 535.9 299.7 83.6 98.4 71.0 43.5
SO2
4 172.5 54.1 145.2 103.2 104.0 47.2
nss-SO2
4 165.1 50.3 94.9 89.0 96.1 47.3
Total Al 2460 2160 3470 2730 4900 6500
Water-soluble Al 124 36 38 45 nd
Al solubility 5.0 1.7 % 1.1 1.6 % nd
Relative acidity 0.73 0.13 1.07 1.06
a This study; b Hsu et al. (2010b); c Derivation from Kang et al. (2009); nd: no data.
Figure 7. Pie charts of ion distribution for (a) sea-fog-modied aerosols (this study), (b) dust aerosols collected over the East China Sea (n = 8) (Hsu et al., 2010b), and (c) dust aerosols collected on
the island of Jeju (n = 49) (Kang et al., 2009).
higher than those of dust aerosols (Table 2), suggesting the addition of anthropogenic SOx emission during sea fog formation as indicated by Gilardoni et al. (2014). In the marginal seas adjacent to the anthropogenic emission source, acidied sea fog induced by additional sulfuric and nitric acid was common (Sasakawa and Uematsu, 2005; Yue et al., 2014).
In general, Al in marine aerosols originated from terrestrial minerals (Uematsu et al., 2010). The mean concentrations of total Al in our seven sea fog samples were the lowest among those in dust aerosols from the ECSs (Table 2).However, the concentrations as well as the fractions of water-soluble Al in sea-fog-modied aerosols were signicantly higher than those of dust aerosols. Because of the high acidity (low RA values) for sea-fog-modied aerosols (Fig. 6a), we suspected that during the seasonal transition period the formation of sea fog at the landocean boundary may acidify
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areas and at different times. Such consistency in the ion pie chart indicates the representativeness of these dust aerosols. However, the pie chart for sea-fog-modied aerosols revealed that NH+4 and NO3 occupied approximately 30 and 36 % of the total ionic concentration (Fig. 7a). Such an overwhelmingly high occupation of nitrogenous ions emphasizes the role of sea fog in modifying the chemistry of non-foggy dust aerosols.
In a previous study in the Po Valley, the average scavenging efciencies for aerosol nitrate and ammonium were reported to be at similar levels (70 and 68 %; Gilardoni et al., 2014), while in our case the concentrations of nitrate in seafog-modied aerosols were higher than those of ammonium (Table 1 and Fig. 6a). Since the gas-phase HNO3 is rapidly dissolved in liquid water particles during the early stages of fog formation (Fahey et al., 2005; Moore et al., 2004), it was reasonable to infer that the enriched nitrate in sea fog was attributed to gaseous HNO3 owing to the gasliquid equilibrium between NO3 and HNO3 in fog droplets. Moreover, our sea-fog-modied aerosols were collected from the air masses moving around eastern China and the ECSs, where the NOx emission is the highest in China (Gu et al., 2012). The lifetime of NOx in the boundary layer is generally less than 2 days (Liang et al., 1998). Based on our air mass backward trajectories analysis, the travel time of air masses from inland China to the marginal seas is long enough for oxidation of NOx into HNO3. Thus, nitrate enrichment in the sea-fogmodied aerosol was likely a synergistic consequence due to the sea fog formation and gasliquid equilibrium of gaseous HNO3.
As for SO24, both the concentration and percentage occupation were comparable in sea-fog-modied aerosols and dust aerosols (Table 2 and Fig. 7). However, the concentrations of nss-SO24 in sea-fog-modied aerosols were 60 %
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the aerosol to effectively promote the solubility of metals in aerosol minerals.
Finally, it has been shown that dissolved organic matter can be scavenged by fog, but its scavenging efciency was lower than those of nitrate and ammonium due to hydrophobic organic species being more difcult to scavenge than hydrophilic ones (Maria and Russell, 2005; Gilardoni et al., 2014). In our case, although concentrations of WSON in seafog-modied aerosols (147 171 nmol N m3) were signif
icantly higher than those of background aerosols, the ratio of WSON to TDN in sea-fog-modied aerosols (10 6 %)
was similar to those (ranging from 10 to 24 %) of background aerosols sampled in the ECSs (Table 1). Such a high WSON concentration but low WSON % in TDN in sea-fogmodied aerosols may indicate the lower scavenging efciency of WSON relative to other nitrogen species or that its source region is different or both.
Note that all these aerosols in our study were sampled by using TSP. Conventional knowledge indicates that aerosol may act as a precursor for fog formation, but this does not necessarily mean all the aerosols we sampled were directly associated with fog. Nevertheless, we observed distinctive chemistry for this type of aerosol either comparing with aerosols sampled during the same cruise or comparing with non-foggy aerosols collected in the ECSs in previous study. More studies are needed to explore the effect of sea fog formation on aerosol chemistry.
3.3.2 Dust aerosols
For dust aerosols collected in the NWPO, nitrate ranged from 79 to 145 nmol N m3 with an average of 100 23 nmol N m3, and ammonium ranged from 94 to
163 nmol N m3 with an average of 138 24 nmol N m3
(Table 1 and Fig. 6a). Relative to background aerosols, both nitrate and ammonium were signicantly higher in dust aerosols revealing the anthropogenic nitrogen ngerprint carried by the Asian dust outow along with westerlies (Chen and Chen, 2008). Interestingly, dust aerosols contained a low concentration of WSON (11.2 4.0 nmol N m3) re
sembling that of background aerosols (Table 1 and Fig. 6a).
Moreover, dust aerosols held the lowest WSON fraction in total dissolved nitrogen among the three types (Table 1 and Fig. 6b). Based on the good correlation between nss-Ca2+ and WSON, previous studies demonstrated that dust can carry anthropogenic nitrogen activity into remote oceans and simultaneously promote the ratio of WSON / TDN in aerosol (Mace et al., 2003b; Lesworth et al., 2010; Violaki et al., 2010). However, in our case there was no correlation between WSON and nss-Ca2+ (not shown), likely illustrating that these aerosols had less chance to come in contact with WSON along their pathway from a high altitude, or that WSON had been scavenged during transport. However, the latter was less likely.
3.3.3 Background aerosols
For the 31 background aerosol samples, the mean concentrations of NO3 and NH+4 were 26 32 and
54 45 nmol N m3 (Table 1). Both were 10 times higher
than those collected in the same region during summer(2.5 1.0 nmol N m3 for nitrate and 5.9 2.9 nmol N m3
for ammonium; Jung et al., 2011). The 10 times higher Nr for springtime background aerosols indicated that the spring background was not pristine at all. Such distinctive seasonality was ascribed to the origins of air mass, since in summer the air masses in our study area were mainly from the open ocean, while in spring the air masses came from the northeast of China through the Japanese Sea and Japan (Fig. 4c), where they were strongly inuenced by anthropogenic nitrogen emission (Kang et al., 2010). The concentration of WSON in background aerosols was 10.9 6.8 nmol N m3,
which fell within the wide range reported previously ( 1 to
76 nmol N m3; Table 1). In the open ocean, the WSON in aerosols may come from natural and anthropogenic sources.
For example, the highest percentage of WSON in TDN in the southern Atlantic (84 %) was attributed to high biological productivity (Violaki et al., 2015). Unfortunately, no marine biological data (i.e., special amines or amino acids as summarized by Cape et al., 2011) existed in our case to directly support marine-sourced aerosol WSON.
Nevertheless, our sampling cruise experienced a wide range of wind speed with variable sea salt contents during the collection of background aerosols. The correlations between ion content and wind speed may reveal some useful information as indirect evidence. Higher sea salt, e.g., Na+, Cl, and
Mg2+, appeared with higher wind speed conditions (Fig. 8ac). Positive correlations can be seen although r-square values were small, possibly due to time-integrated sampling ( 12 h) and averaged wind speed over the sampling period.
The positive correlation illustrated that the emission of sea salt aerosols was driven by wind intensity as indicated by Shi et al. (2012). Except for WSON (Fig. 8d), which was consistent with sea-salt-associated ions, no statistically signicant relationships can be derived from scatter plots of nitrate and ammonium against wind speed (Fig. 8e and f). An analogous tendency between WSON and sea salt ions suggested that WSON might come from the surface ocean. Since the concentration of dissolved organic nitrogen (DON) in surface sea water was less variable, ranging from 4.5 to 5.0 M in the Pacic Ocean (Knapp et al., 2011), DON can be taken as a relatively constant component in surface sea water similar to Na+, Cl and Mg2+. Very likely, breaking waves and sea spray brought DON into the atmosphere under higher wind speed. In fact, using free amino acids and urea compositions in the maritime aerosol, Mace et al. (2003a) indicated that live species in the sea surface microlayer may serve as a source of atmospheric organic nitrogen.
Compared with DON in the surface ocean, it is not possible that nitrate and ammonium in the surface seawater are a
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Figure 8. Scatter plots of concentrations of (a) Na+, (b) Cl, (c) Mg2+, (d) WSON, (e) NO
3 , and (f) NH+
4 against corresponding wind speed for background aerosols. Wind speed was derived by averaging wind speed (5 min average) in corresponding sampling intervals.
Crosses in (d), (e) and (f) were not considered during the linear regression.
source of atmospheric aerosol nitrate and ammonium since the concentrations of nitrate and ammonium are very low (a few tens to hundreds of nM) in the surface ocean. However, under a wide range of wind speed, we observed relatively narrow concentration ranges of aerosol ammonium and nitrate. This was strange, given that high wind speed implied vigorous exchange on the airsea interface, during which both sea salt emission and scavenging were supposed to be high. Under efcient scavenging conditions, to maintain a relatively uniform aerosol nitrate or ammonium concentration (quasi-static), some supply processes are needed for compensation. Since the surface ocean is not a possible source for both aerosol ammonium and nitrate, we suggested alternative supplies which included deposition from the upper atmosphere and photochemical production/consumption.
Based on 15NNH+4 in aerosol (Jickells et al., 2003) and rainwater (Altieri et al., 2014) collected in the Atlantic, the ocean was suggested to be one of the ammonium sources for the atmosphere. Because of the low concentration of ammonium in the ocean surface, direct ammonium emission via sea spray was less likely. Based on our observation, we hypothesized that the emitted marine WSON in the atmosphere may serve as a precursor for ammonium and/or nitrate via the photodegradation and photooxidation processes reported previously (Spokes and Liss, 1996; Vione et al., 2005; Xie et al., 2012). A recent study by Paulot et al. (2015) supported our hypothesis. By modeling global inventories of ammonia emissions, they found that the ammonia source from the ocean cannot neutralize the sulfate aerosol acidity; thus photolysis of marine DON at the ocean surface or in the atmosphere was suggested to be a source of atmospheric ammonia. More studies about the exchange processes among nitro-
gen species through the oceanatmosphere boundary layer are needed.
3.4 WSON in aerosol and rainwater: a global comparison
Organic nitrogen, distributed in the gas, particulate and dissolved phases, is an important component in the atmospheric nitrogen cycle. In our case, mean fractions of WSON in aerosol TDN were 10 6, 5 2 and 14 8 % for mod
ied sea fog, dust and background aerosols, respectively.
All values fell within the wide range reported previously (also in Table 1). Here we synthesized a published data set about aerosol WSON from around the world for comparison (Fig. 9a). The synthesized data revealed that aerosol WSON concentrations varied over 3 orders of magnitude and the fraction of WSON in TDN ranged from 1 % to as high as 85 %. Additionally, the fraction of WSON was the less variable towards high WSON concentrations. The slope of the linear regression between WSON and TDN indicated that WSON accounted for 18 % of aerosol TDN. Although the positive correlation between WSON and TDN may imply WSONs anthropogenic origin (Jickells et al., 2013), the marine-sourced WSON cannot be ignored in the open ocean as discussed in Sect. 3.3.3.
In Fig. 9b, we made a comparison between the distribution of the WSON fraction in rainwater TDN and that in aerosol. The distribution pattern of WSON fractions in aerosols (Fig. 9b, grey bar) was relatively concentrated, revealing a tendency towards lower fractions. Its peak frequency appeared at the category of 1020 % and at least 80 % of the observed WSON fractions fell within < 25 %. However, for WSON/TDN in rainwater (Fig. 9b, blue bar),
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Figure 9. (a) Scatter plot of published aerosol WSON and TDN concentrations from around the world (red circles for this study, black crosses from Lesworth et al., 2010; Chen et al., 2007; Mace et al., 2003a; Miyazaki et al., 2011; Shi et al., 2010a; Srinivas et al., 2011; Zamora et al., 2011; and Violaki et al., 2015). (b) Frequency histograms for percentage WSON in aerosol TDN (grey bars, data from a) and in rainwater (blue bars, data from Cornell, 2011; Zhang et al., 2012; Altieri et al., 2012; Cui et al., 2014; Chen et al., 2015; and Yan and Kim, 2015).
the distribution pattern was relatively diffusive, shifting towards a higher percentage and peaking at around categories of 2540 % with a mean value of 33 % (n = 332), which is
slightly higher than that (24 %, n = 115) obtained by Jick
ells et al. (2013). Although values of the coefcient of variation for both aerosol and rainwater were high, the results were still statistically meaningful. The mean WSON fraction for rainwater was around 2 times that for aerosol (18 %), but the sampling bias inherent in such a comparison should be noted. In a previous study, Mace et al. (2003a) reported that the fractional contribution of dissolved free amino acids to organic nitrogen in rainwater was 4 times higher than that in aerosol. The higher fractional contribution of WSON to TDN for rainwater may imply that precipitation washed out hydrophilic organic matter or WSON from the atmosphere more effectively (Maria and Russell, 2005).
3.5 Dry deposition of TDN and the implications
As shown in Fig. 10, the atmospheric nitrogen dry deposition over the cruise revealed a large spatial variance under different weather conditions. In the ECSs, the mean DIN (NH+4 + NO3) deposition on
fog days was estimated to be 960 mol N m2 d1
(926 518 and 38 17 mol N m2 d1 for nitrate
and ammonium), which was around 6 times higher than the average values for ordinary aerosols derived from literature reports (153 mol N m2 d1 for aerosol nitrate and 12.3 mol N m2 d1 for aerosol ammonium; see Table 3). The WSON deposition ranged from 20 to 446 mol N m2 d1 with an average of 127 148 mol N m2 d1. Since the bioavailability of
aerosol WSON to phytoplankton was reported to be high (1280 %; Bronk et al., 2007; Wedyan et al., 2007), by taking WSON into consideration, the deposition of TDN will be 1100 mol N m2 d1.
Figure 10. Dry deposition of aerosol nitrogen against sample identication. Nitrate is in blue, ammonium in red and WSON in green. Sample identications, which match with Table S1, are shown on the x axis.
Taking 1150 103 km2 for the total area cover by
the ECSs, we calculated the daily nitrogen supply from atmospheric deposition associated with sea fog to be 18 11 Gg TDN d1, which is around 6 times the nitro
gen input from the Yangtze River in spring (total amount of 3.1 Gg DIN d1; Li et al., 2011) and 2 times the supply from the subsurface intrusion of the Kuroshio (7.9 Gg NO3-
N d1; Chen, 1996). In the ECSs, the sea fog occurrence was around 35 days in March and 810 days in April (Zhang et al., 2009). Given such high TDN deposition per day, the contribution of foggy weather should really be taken into account in a monthly estimate even though the occurrence of sea fog is limited in time and space. Moreover, with a focus on the plume area, the atmospheric inuence is more widespread than the river.
Assuming that nitrogen was the limiting nutrient and that all the total dissolved nitrogen deposited from atmosphere into the sea was bioavailable and would be utilized for carbon xation, we obtained a C-xation rate of 87 mg C m2 d1
in spring for the ECSs based on the Redeld C / N ratio of 6.6. Since atmospheric nitrogen deposition is an external source, such a conversion represents new production. When compared with the primary productivity in the East China Sea (292549 mg C m2 d1; Gong et al., 2000), the new
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Table 3. The depositional uxes reported or calculated for the Asian region and Pacic Ocean based on assumed deposition velocity.
Locations Collection type Date NO
3 a NH+
4 a WSONa Totala Reference
ECSs (sea fog) Cruise MarApr 2014 926 518 38 17 127 148 1090 671 This study
NWPO (dust) Cruise MarApr 2014 172 40 11.9 2.1 6.5 5.7 190 41.6 This study
NWPO (bgd.) Cruise MarApr 2014 44.6 55.3 4.66 3.90 7.6 6.5 56.8 59.1 This study
Subarctic western North Pacic Cruise JulAug 2008 3.3 2.3 1.9 0.63 5.3 2.6 Jung et al. (2011)
Subtropical western North Pacic Cruise AugSep 2008 3.0 1.5 2.7 2.1 5.7 3.5 Jung et al. (2011)
Central North Pacic Cruise Jan 2009 1.6 0.44 1.4 0.96 3.1 1.4 Jung et al. (2011)
Northwest ECSb Cruise FebMar 2007 117 17 134 Shi et al.(2010b) Southwest ECSb Cruise Spring 20052007 66 8 74 Hsu et al. (2010b) Northwest ECSb Coastal island Apr 2010 192 6.6 198.6 Zhu et al. (2013) Northwest ECSb Coastal island Mar 2011 237 17.5 254.5 Zhu et al. (2013)
a In mol N m2 d1. b Recalculated uxes based on assumed deposition velocity.
production associated with sea fog nitrogen deposition may account for 1630 % of the primary production in the ECSs on foggy days in spring.
Similar to sea fog on the ECSs, sporadic dust events are frequently observed from March to May in the NWPO (Shao and Dong, 2006). In our spring case, the average deposition of dust aerosol nitrate and ammonium (172 40 mol N m2 d1 for ni
trate and 11.9 2.1 mol N m2 d1 for ammonium)
were signicantly higher than that of background aerosols (44.6 55.3 mol N m2 d1 for nitrate and
4.7 4.0 mol N m2 d1 for ammonium; see Table 3).
However, both dust and background aerosols depositions were signicantly higher in spring when compared to summer dry deposition in the subtropical western North Pacic (3.0 1.5 for nitrate and 2.7 2.1 mol N m2 d1
for ammonium) and the subarctic western North Pacic(3.3 2.3 for nitrate and 1.9 0.63 mol N m2 d1 for
ammonium) (Jung et al., 2011). Likewise, the C-xation rate in the NWPO during spring was estimated to be4.515 mg C m2 d1 based on the above assumptions and observations. The minimal level of C xation induced by dry deposition, in fact, equals to the maximum carbon uptake(3.6 mg C m2 d1; Jung et al., 2013) in summer by the total atmospheric DIN deposition (wet + dry + sea fog) in
the western North Pacic Ocean. Thus, the contribution of atmospheric nitrogen deposition to primary production in the NWPO could be signicantly different between seasons.
4 Conclusions
We presented the total dissolved nitrogen species including water-soluble organic nitrogen in TSP sampled over the ECSs and NWPO during spring and the samples of the ECSs were collected under sea fog inuence. Three types of aerosol the sea-fog-modied, dust and background aerosols were classied. We found that sea fog formation significantly altered the aerosol chemistry, resulting in the highest concentrations of all nitrogen species among the three types of aerosol, accompanied by higher acidity and higher
cation deciency. On a daily basis, the nitrogen supply from sea-fog-associated atmospheric deposition into the ECSs was around 6 times the nitrogen supply from the Yangtze River in spring (total amount of 3.1 Gg DIN d1) and 2 times the supply from the subsurface intrusion of Kuroshio (7.9 Gg NO3-
N d1). Sea-fog-associated deposition and chemical processes require more attention and need to be considered in future aerosol monitoring and modeling works, especially in marginal seas during seasonal transition.
In the open sea, the spring background aerosol ammonium and nitrate were 10 times higher than previous report for summer, indicating an anthropogenic inuence and the importance of the seasonality of the air mass source. The ammonium and nitrate varied in narrow ranges showing no correlation with wind speed, which may represent the degree of sea salt emission and scavenging. It is likely that nitrate and ammonium in the atmosphere above sea surface had reached a budget balance. Since the supply of nitrate and ammonium from surface ocean (bottom) is not possible, their sources might come from upper atmospheric boundary layer (top) or photochemical production of nitrogenous compounds. However, WSON revealed a similar pattern to the sea salt ions (Na+, Mg2+ and Cl), in which concentrations increased as the wind speed increased. Such a similarity indicated that at least a portion of the WSON should come from the surface ocean, where DON is emitted with sea salt. Future studies of nitrogen isotopic compositions of aerosol WSON and marine DON may shed light on the role of marine DON in nitrogen cycling of the airsea interface.
The dust aerosols were signicantly enriched in nitrate and ammonium, but not in WSON. Unless WSON-depletion processes had occurred, such a disproportionate enrichment suggests that dust aerosols from high latitude and altitude may have less chance to come in contact with WSON during long-range transport.
The WSON to TDN ratios of aerosols collected in the ECSs and NWPO fell within that of the global pattern of aerosols. Since nitrate and ammonium are mainly anthropogenic, the signicantly positive correlation between WSON and TDN may imply WSONs anthropogenic origin.
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When TDN concentrations were low (< 100 nmol m3), the proportions of WSON in TDN were more diffusive, indicating that factors other than anthropogenic ones were involved.The mean ratio of WSON to TDN in aerosols was only 1/2 of that for precipitation over the world. Such a low proportion of WSON in aerosol TDN suggests that the aerosol was less capable of scavenging hydrophilic organic nitrogen when compared with precipitation. Nevertheless, WSON occupies a signicant portion of the TDN for both aerosol and precipitation and thus cannot be overlooked in the atmospheric nitrogen cycle.
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Acknowledgements. This research was funded by the Major State Basic Research Development Program of China (973 program) (nos. 2014CB953702 and 2015CB954003) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC U1305233, 91328207 and 41121091). We also thank Peiran Yu and Tianfeng Guo (Ocean University of China) for helping us to collect samples during the cruise and Shuen-Hsin Lin (Academia Sinica in Taiwan) for help in chemical analyses. John Hodgkiss of the University of Hong Kong is thanked for his assistance with English.
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Abstract
The cumulative atmospheric nitrogen deposition has been found to profoundly impact the nutrient stoichiometry of the eastern China seas (ECSs: the Yellow Sea and East China Sea) and the northwestern Pacific Ocean (NWPO). In spite of the potential significance of dry deposition in those regions, shipboard observations of atmospheric aerosols remain insufficient, particularly regarding the compositions of water-soluble nitrogen species (nitrate, ammonium and water-soluble organic nitrogen - WSON). We conducted a cruise covering the ECSs and the NWPO during the spring of 2014 and observed three types of atmospheric aerosols. Aluminum content, air mass backward trajectories, weather conditions, and ion stoichiometry allowed us to discern dust aerosol patches and sea-fog-modified aerosols (widespread over the ECSs) from background aerosols (open ocean). Among the three types, sea-fog-modified aerosols contained the highest concentrations of nitrate (536±300nmolNm<sup>'3</sup>), ammonium (442±194nmolNm<sup>'3</sup>) and WSON (147±171nmolNm<sup>'3</sup>); furthermore, ammonium and nitrate together occupied ¼ 65% of the molar fraction of total ions. The dust aerosols also contained significant amounts of nitrate (100±23nmolNm<sup>'3</sup>) and ammonium (138±24nmolNm<sup>'3</sup>) which were obviously larger than those in the background aerosols (26±32 for nitrate and 54±45nmolNm<sup>'3</sup> for ammonium), yet this was not the case for WSON. It appeared that dust aerosols had less of a chance to come in contact with WSON during their transport. In the open ocean, we found that sea salt (e.g., Na<sup>+</sup>, Cl<sup>'</sup>, Mg<sup>2+</sup>), as well as WSON, correlated positively with wind speed. Apparently, marine dissolved organic nitrogen (DON) was emitted from breaking waves. Regardless of the variable wind speeds from 0.8 to as high as 18ms<sup>'1</sup>, nitrate and ammonium, by contrast, remained in narrow ranges, implying that some supply and consumption processes of nitrate and ammonium were required to maintain such a quasi-static condition. Mean dry deposition of total dissolved nitrogen (TDN) for sea-fog-modified aerosols (1090±671µmolNm<sup>'2</sup>d<sup>'1</sup>) was 5 times higher than that for dust aerosols (190±41.6µmolNm<sup>'2</sup>d<sup>'1</sup>) and around 20 times higher than that for background aerosols (56.8±59.1µmolNm<sup>'2</sup>d<sup>'1</sup>). Apparently, spring sea fog on the ECSs played an important role in removing atmospheric reactive nitrogen from the Chinese mainland and depositing it into the ECSs, thus effectively preventing its seaward export to the NWPO.
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