Source apportionment and dynamic changes of carbonaceous aerosols during the haze bloom-decay process in China based on radiocarbon and organic molecular tracers

Abstract

Fine carbonaceous aerosols (CAs) is the key factor influencing the currently filthy air in megacities in China, yet few studies simultaneously focus on the origins of different CAs species using specific and powerful source tracers. Here, we present a detailed source apportionment for various CAs fractions, including organic carbon (OC), water-soluble OC (WSOC), water-insoluble OC (WIOC), elemental carbon (EC) and secondary OC (SOC) in the largest cities of North (Beijing, BJ) and South China (Guangzhou, GZ), using the measurements of radiocarbon and anhydrosugars. Results show that non-fossil fuel sources such as biomass burning and biogenic emission make a significant contribution to the total CAs in Chinese megacities: 56-±-4 in BJ and 46-±-5-% in GZ, respectively. The relative contributions of primary fossil carbon from coal and liquid petroleum combustions, primary non-fossil carbon and secondary organic carbon (SOC) to total carbon are 19, 28 and 54-% in BJ, and 40, 15 and 46-% in GZ, respectively. Non-fossil fuel sources account for 52 in BJ and 71-% in GZ of SOC, respectively. These results suggest that biomass burning has a greater influence on regional particulate air pollution in North China than in South China. We observed an unabridged haze bloom-decay process in South China, which illustrates that both primary and secondary matter from fossil sources played a key role in the blooming phase of the pollution episode, while haze phase is predominantly driven by fossil-derived secondary organic matter and nitrate.

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Junwen Liu1, Jun Li1, Di Liu1, Ping Ding2, Chengde Shen2, Yangzhi Mo1, Xinming Wang1, Chunling Luo1, Zhineng Cheng1, Snke Szidat3, Yanlin Zhang3, Yingjun Chen4, and Gan Zhang1

1State Key Laboratory of Organic Geochemistry, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510640, China

2State Key Laboratory of Isotope Geochemistry, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510640, China

3Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry & Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Berne, 3012, Switzerland

4College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China

Correspondence to: Jun Li ([email protected])

Received: 13 September 2015 Published in Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss.: 14 December 2015 Revised: 18 February 2016 Accepted: 23 February 2016 Published: 8 March 2016

Abstract. Fine carbonaceous aerosols (CAs) is the key factor inuencing the currently lthy air in megacities in China, yet few studies simultaneously focus on the origins of different CAs species using specic and powerful source tracers. Here, we present a detailed source apportionment for various CAs fractions, including organic carbon (OC), water-soluble OC (WSOC), water-insoluble OC (WIOC), elemental carbon (EC) and secondary OC (SOC) in the largest cities of North (Beijing, BJ) and South China (Guangzhou, GZ), using the measurements of radiocarbon and anhydrosugars. Results show that non-fossil fuel sources such as biomass burning and biogenic emission make a signicant contribution to the total CAs in Chinese megacities: 56 4 in BJ and 46 5 %

in GZ, respectively. The relative contributions of primary fossil carbon from coal and liquid petroleum combustions, primary non-fossil carbon and secondary organic carbon (SOC) to total carbon are 19, 28 and 54 % in BJ, and 40, 15 and 46 % in GZ, respectively. Non-fossil fuel sources account for 52 in BJ and 71 % in GZ of SOC, respectively. These results suggest that biomass burning has a greater inuence on regional particulate air pollution in North China than in South China. We observed an unabridged haze bloom-decay process in South China, which illustrates that both primary and secondary matter from fossil sources played a key role in the

blooming phase of the pollution episode, while haze phase is predominantly driven by fossil-derived secondary organic matter and nitrate.

1 Introduction

Particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter of < 2.5 m (PM2.5) is either directly emitted from emission sources (chemical industry, power plant, vehicle, biomass burning, soil dust, etc.) or formed as secondary particles via the conversion of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and inorganic gases (SO2 / NOx / NH3) to the particulate phase. These tiny particles have been shown to cause numerous environmental, health and climate problems that closely link humans and the global climate system (Brunekreef et al., 2002; Dock-ery et al., 1993; R.-J. Huang et al., 2014; Wang et al., 2011, 2014). Many countries or regions have set strict standards for the ambient concentration of PM2.5 in an attempt to improve public health and protect air quality. For example, the annual and 24 h PM2.5 standards are regulated at 35 and 75 g m3, respectively, in China.

As the worlds largest contributor of PM2.5 (Y. Huang et al., 2014), China is currently facing the challenge of severe

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air pollution (i.e., haze episodes) (Chan et al., 2008; Zhang et al., 2012), which has already led to numerous negative impacts on the atmospheric environment and public health.Up to 1.2 million premature deaths in China were directly or indirectly correlated with air pollution in 2010 (Lim et al., 2013). Furthermore, haze events in Chinese urban areas, especially in megacities, have become a common phenomenon that can occur during any season owing to the intensive emissions of pollutants and unfavorable meteorological conditions (He et al., 2014; X.-G. Liu et al., 2013). Better understanding of PM2.5 sources and formation processes, which remain unclear due to the complicated chemical constituents, is urgently needed and would greatly facilitate the development of steps to mitigate the serious haze pollution in China.

Carbonaceous aerosols (CAs) in PM2.5 have been shown to be crucial factors in the haze episodes. In a highly polluted region, 40 % of PM2.5 can be explained by CAs (Cao et

al., 2003), exerting remarkable impacts on the atmospheric visibility (Deng et al., 2008). Traditionally, CAs, of which classication approach is method-dependent, are categorized as organic carbon (OC) and elemental carbon (EC). OC represents the less refractory CAs that contain thousands of organic molecules either emitted by primary emission sources (primary organic carbon, POC) or formed by the conversion process of gas-to-particle (secondary organic carbon, SOC). In addition, OC can also be further classied into water-soluble organic carbon (WSOC) and water-insoluble organic carbon (WIOC). EC is formed only during incomplete combustion processes. TC is the sum of OC and EC. In recent years, source apportionments for these carbon species have yielded useful information in China through radiocarbon (14C)-based top-down studies. At the early period, studies related the 14C of atmospheric CAs were focusing on the TC fraction in China. It was reported that 3050 %

of PM2.5 TC is contributed from modern sources in Beijing during the year of 2001 (Yang et al., 2005). In Lhasa, a remote city of China, non-fossil sources accounted for 36

70 % of TC (Huang et al., 2010). In a background site of Southeast China, Niu et al. (2013) observed the obvious seasonality of percentages of non-fossil sources in TC: 45 in

summer and 95 % in winter, respectively. Nowadays, stud

ies are beginning to focus on the origins of sub-fractions of CAs, i.e., EC and OC in the lthy air of Chinese cities.Chen et al. (2013) rst systematically studied the 14C levels

of EC, also known as black carbon, in East Asia and found that fossil-fuel combustion contributed 80 6 % of the EC

emitted from China, which is conrmed by the studies of Liu et al. (2014) and Zhang et al. (2015). Using the combined measurements of 14C and stable carbon isotope (13C), Andersson et al. (2015) further pointed out that the sources of EC covering China are highly region-specic, probably due to the big difference of energy consumption among regions. Concerning OC, Zhang et al. (2015) found that the averaged contribution of fossil sources is 3558 % in Chi-

nese cities with the rest coming from non-fossil sources such as biomass burning and biogenic emissions. Through combining a series of analytical methods with 14C, R.-J. Huang et al. (2014) believed that haze enveloping Chinese cities is subject to secondary aerosols, which accounts for 3077 of PM2.5 and 4171 % of organic aerosols, respectively. However, most of these studies have emphasized only the 14C lev

els of one or two carbon species, and our understanding of haze formation remains limited. In this study, 14C levels for the various carbon species (WIOC, WSOC, OC, EC, and TC) are reported simultaneously in two cities located in North and South China, respectively. To further constrain the atmospheric behavior of PM2.5, secondary inorganic ions (SO24,

NO3 and NH+4), primary inorganic ions (K+, Ca2+, Mg2+, Cl and Na+) and biomass burning-specic organic tracers (Simoneit et al., 2001) (levoglucosan, Lev; Galactosan, Gal;

Mannosan, Mann) were also measured. Finally, a detailed source apportionment of CAs and PM2.5 was achieved in the largest city of North (Beijing) and South China (Guangzhou) using the measurements of 14C and other organic and/or inorganic chemicals, and the source dynamics of individual primary and secondary aerosols during the haze bloom-decay process in Guangzhou basing day-to-day time serials and Beijing basing low-to-high PM2.5 concentrations were investigated as well.

2 Materials and methods

2.1 Field sampling campaign

Twenty-four-hour PM2.5 samples (9.00 a.m. to 9.00 a.m. the following day) were collected continuously on pre-baked quartz ber lters (8 10 inches, Pall) through a high-

volume sampler equipped with a PM2.5 inlet (1 m3 min1, XT Instruments, Shanghai, China) in Chinas two largest megacities, located in North (Beijing, BJ, 39.9 N, 116.4 E,

20 million inhabitants; 21 samples) and South China (Guangzhou, GZ, 23.1 N, 113.3 E, 10 million inhabi

tants; 14 samples) during March and April 2013, respectively (Fig. 1). The meteorological parameters during sampling are shown in Supplement Fig. S1. After sampling, the lters were folded, wrapped in aluminum foil, sealed in airtight plastic bags, and stored in a refrigerator at 20 C until

analysis. Three eld blanks were collected from both sampling sites.

2.2 Separation for carbon species

An area of lter was cut and sandwiched by a ltration unit equipped with a quartz cartridge, and subsequently extracted carefully by 100 mL ultra-pure water (18.2 M[Omega1]).Only 5 % of carbon in original lter was lost during this

water-extraction and thus the resulting bias towards the measurement of WIOC and EC and the source apportionment of TC in the following text is marginal and can be neglected.

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Figure 1. Geographic locations of Beijing and Guangzhou as well as their PM2.5 chemical compositions. Air mass back trajectories within 24 h (run every 2 h from the end of sampling) for the selected samples are modeled at 100 m above ground level by Air Resources Laboratory,

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Hybrid Single Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory Model).

WSOC species were quantied using a TOC analyzer (Shimadzu TOC_VCPH, Japan). The washed lter was dried in a desiccator, wrapped in aluminum foil and stored in a refrigerator. Contribution of carbonate carbon (CC) to ne aerosols generally can be neglected if studies focus on the CAs (Chow and Watson, 2002). While, some early investigations showed that CC-rich dusts derived from deserts may exert a substantial inuence on the air quality during the spring season in North China (He et al., 2001; Zheng, et al., 2005). Thus, hydrochloric acid (1 M) was used to remove the potential CC in the samples collected in BJ in this study. WIOC and EC were obtained from the water-ltered sample using an off-line carbon analyzer (Sunset Laboratory, Inc., US) by the thermo-optical transmittance method (NIOSH 870). The average WIOC contents in the eld blanks from BJ and GZ were 0.25 0.02 and 0.26 0.03 g cm2, respectively. No

EC and WSOC were detected in any of the eld blanks. In this study, the reproducibility of the measurement of WIOC, EC, and WSOC is 5, 7, and 9 %, respectively (n = 4).

2.3 Radiocarbon measurements

Isolation procedures for the 14C measurements of WIOC, EC and WSOC have been described previously (D. Liu et al.,

2013, 2014; Zhang et al., 2010a). In brief, WIOC and EC were combusted in a stream of pure oxygen at 340 C for 15 min and 65 C for 10 min, respectively. Prior to combustion at 65 C, EC was placed in a tube furnace at 375 C for 4 h with air. WSOC solution was frozen, freeze-dried, and then combusted at 85 C. Graphite target preparations and accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) measurements were performed at the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academic Sciences (GIGCAS) and Peking University NEC compact AMS facility, respectively. All 14C values were reported as the fraction of modern carbon (fm) after correction with 13C for fractionation. fm was converted into the fraction of contemporary carbon (fc) to eliminate the effect of nuclear bomb tests through conversion factors (Mohn et al., 2008), which were 1.10 0.05 for EC and 1.06 0.05 for

OC in 2013 (Liu et al., 2014), respectively. Both fc values for TC and OC were calculated by isotopic mass balance. No blank corrections were performed owing to the low carbon amount in the eld blanks in this study, which accounted for only < 2 % of samples.

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2.4 Levoglucosan, galactosan and mannosan

Levoglucosan (Lev), Galactosan (Gal) and Mannosan (Mann) are regarded as excellent tracers for biomass burning activities (Simoneit et al., 2001). Detailed analytical procedure has been described in D. Liu et al. (2013, 2014). In brief, a section of lter was removed, spiked with 500 ng of methyl- -L-xylanopyranoside (m-XP) as internal standards, extracted with methanol, reduced using a rotary evaporator, ltered through a Teon syringe lter, dried in a stream of gentle nitrogen, and then reacted with a mixture of 40 L BSTFA (1 % TMCS) and pyridine at 7 C for 1 h. Subsequently, this derivatization solution was injected into a gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer (GC-MS, Agilent 7890-5975) with a capillary column (DB-5MS, 30 m, 0.25 mm,0.25 m).

2.5 Inorganic ions

A 2.54 cm2 lter was punched out, extracted twice in ultra-pure water (18.2 M[Omega1]) with a centrifuge, sonicated in an ice-water bath, and ltrated using a Teon syringe lter(0.22 m). Subsequently, the ltrates were combined and analyzed for anions and ions (Na+, Cl, Ca2+, Mg2+,

K+, NH+4, SO24 and NO3) using an ion chromatography (Metrohm 883 Basic IC plus, Switzerland). Small amounts of Mg2+, Ca2+, Cl and SO24 were detected in the eld blanks, and their corresponding concentrations in samples were corrected. The other ions were not detected in the eld blank lters. The reproducibility of these ions ranged between 5 and 11 % (n = 4) in this study.

2.6 Methodology for the source apportionment of carbons

2.6.1 The separation of fossil and non-fossil carbon species

The concentrations of non-fossil and/or fossil carbon species were directly calculated using their corresponding fc values as mentioned above. For example, the concentrations of fossil WIOC (WIOCf) and non-fossil WIOC (WIOCnf) were calculated as follows:

WIOCf = (1 fc(WIOC)) WIOC

WIOCnf = fc(WIOC) WIOC.

Thus, all carbon species could be separated into non-fossil and fossil fractions. EC is formed directly by incomplete combustion processes, with non-fossil source EC emitted from biomass burning activities.

2.6.2 Primary organic carbon

OC particles exiting in the present atmosphere are actually a mixture of POC and SOC. POC is the sum of primary biomass burning OC (POCbb), primary fossil fuel

combustion-derived OC (POCf) and the carbonaceous material that exists in vegetation debris, bioaerosols and re-suspended soil organic matter. Since vegetation debris, bioaerosols and soil dust in the air are generally much larger than 2.5 m, its portion in PM2.5 is small and can be neglected, especially in highly polluted air. For example, it was reported that vegetation debris accounted for only 1 % of

PM2.5 OC in Beijing, China (Guo et al., 2012). Moreover, although soil dust may contribute to the primary inorganic aerosol at Beijing (R.-J. Huang et al., 2014), its impact on CAs is negligible due to the low carbon content of soil. Thus, this fraction of OC was ignored in our study. The fraction of POCbb can be estimated using the concentration of Lev, which is an excellent molecular marker for biomass burning, with the hypothesis that the POCbb / Lev value is maintained at a stable level during transportation from emission sources to the ambient environment. In the real atmosphere, Lev is gradually oxidized and degraded (Hoffmann, et al., 2009).However, this decay occurs mainly in typical summer conditions, with 1 106 molecules cm3 of hydroxyl radicals and

independent of relative humidity, according to smog chamber results (Hennigan et al., 2010). Our study, however, was performed in spring with lower temperatures (lower hydroxyl radical levels), and air masses containing biomass burning-derived particles were derived mainly from the sub-urban and rural areas around the sampling locations (relatively shorter air transportation distances). Thus, it was appropriate to use Lev to estimate POCbb in this study.

POCbb = Lev (POC/Lev)bb (1) (POC / Lev)bb, the ratio of primary OC to Lev in the pure biomass burning particles, is closely related to the type of biomass burning (Fine et al., 2002). According to information from previously reported emission inventories, the mean values of (POC / Lev)bb for hardwood, softwood, and annual plants are 7.76, 14.2 and 13.5 with uncertainties of 19, 22, and 22 %, respectively (Fig. S3).

OC directly emitted from fossil fuel combustion is, in principle, water-insoluble (Weber et al., 2007; Zhang et al., 2014). This was further conrmed in a recent study performed by Dai et al. (2015), who found that > 90 % of trafc tunnel-emitted OC is water-insoluble, implying that primary fossil organic carbon (POCf) should be nearly exclusively water-insoluble, if considering the limited but existing SOC in the trafc tunnel. Therefore, POCf is estimated by the fraction of WIOCf.

POCf = WIOC (1 fc(WIOC)) (2)2.6.3 Secondary organic carbon

Non-fossil OC is composed of POCbb and non-fossil SOC (SOCnf) neglecting any contribution from plant debris. Thus, SOCnf can be estimated as follows:

SOCnf = OCnf POCbb. (3)

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Table 1. Data set (average values with standard deviation) for the measured components in this study. Units for the carbon fractions, anhydrosugars and ions are g C, ng, and g m3, respectively.

Beijing (North China) Guangzhou (South China)(15 Mar12 Apr 2013) (418 Apr 2013)

Average Std. Average Std.

WIOC 9.07 4.88 5.99 3.37 WSOC 10.2 5.76 4.31 2.25 OC 19.2 10.3 10.3 5.13 EC 2.56 1.68 3.04 1.42 TC 21.8 11.9 13.3 6.47 Gal 11.7 7.78 5.75 2.51 Mann 10.3 6.24 11.5 5.47 Lev 369 249 259 172 Na+ 0.83 0.32 0.34 0.15

NH+

4 13.0 10.6 7.01 3.05 K+ 1.43 0.90 0.82 0.34 Mg2+ 0.48 0.19 0.07 0.03

Ca2+ 5.63 2.54 0.60 0.36 Cl 5.62 3.30 1.91 1.68

NO

3 31.1 27.9 10.2 6.99 SO2

4 20.8 14.1 13.9 3.87

WIOC: water-insoluble organic carbon; WSOC: water-soluble organic carbon; OC: organic carbon; EC: elemental carbon; TC: total carbon; Gal: galactosan; Mann: mannosan; Lev: levoglucosan.

It should be noted that the VOC precursors of SOCnf can originate from both biogenic emissions and biomass burning.

Studies have found that fossil WSOC can serve as an accurate proxy for fossil SOC (SOCf) (Liu et al., 2014; Zhang et al., 2014), which was therefore calculated by the following equation:

SOCf = WSOC (1 fc(WSOC)). (4) Some fossil SOC may exist in water-insoluble phase. In

Tokyo, Japan, Miyazaki et al. (2006) estimated that < 30 % of SOC is water-insoluble, mainly representing fresh SOC (Favez et al., 2008). It is very likely that practically all SOC species would exist in water-soluble phases, if they underwent sufcient atmospheric reaction. Note that a small part of fresh SOC that exists in the water-insoluble phase is not taken into account for the estimation of fossil SOC, although samples were collected every 24 h in this study.

3 Results and discussion

3.1 PM2.5 and chemical composition

Extremely high PM2.5 mass concentrations are detected in both BJ (74.7418, mean 218 g m3) and GZ (46.1145, mean 90.6 g m3) (Fig. 1), compared to the Chinese rst-grade air quality standard (35 g m3, 24-h) and the World

Health Organization (25 g m3, 24-h). Such elevated PM2.5

loadings can be vividly observed from space (Fig. S2). In this study, the average PM2.5 concentration in BJ is 2.4-fold higher than that in GZ, indicating poorer air quality over the North China region, which has been found in previous investigations (Cao et al., 2012) and is also consistent with the fact that BJ and the adjacent suburban and rural areas (North China Plain) have the worlds highest population density. Organic matter (OM) is the largest contributor to PM2.5 in both cities (Fig. 1), followed by NO3 (13 %), SO24 (9.5 %), NH+4(5.8 %), Ca2+ (2.6 %), Cl (2.6 %), and EC (1.1 %) in BJ and SO24 (16 %), NO3 (10 %), NH+4 (7.6 %), EC (3.2 %), and Cl (2.0 %) in GZ. OM calculations are based on the relative contributions of WSOC and WIOC in OC, due to the different conversion factors for WIOC to WIOM (1.3) and WSOC to WSOM (2.1) (Yttri et al., 2007; Favez et al., 2009;Sun et al., 2011; Chen et al., 2014). OM is the sum of WIOM and WSOM. The proportions of the other measured chemicals are generally lower than 1 %. In this study, 4050 %

of PM2.5 are unidentied, which is relatively higher than that ( 1036 %) from a recent study performed in China (R.-

J. Huang et al., 2014) and probably because we did not measure elementals and their oxidants in PM2.5. Fox example,

Chen et al. (2001) found 3540 % of PM2.5 cannot be iden

tied in Taiwan without measuring some constituents such as Cu, Cd, and As. In addition, the water absorbed by organics would also inuence the proportion of unidentied fraction in particles (Andrews et al., 2000). Different chemical compositions are largely reective of their different source characteristics and the corresponding atmospheric processes. For example, the higher concentrations of Ca2+ recorded in BJ in this study are due to the extensive dust storms originating from deserts in northwestern regions that strongly impact North China in spring (He et al., 2001; Zheng et al., 2005).Road and construction fugitive dust also can lead to a relative higher Ca2+ in PM2.5, while this source may mainly inuences Beijing in summer and is insignicant in spring (Zheng et al., 2005). In addition, biomass burning activities, using domestic biofuel, are generally more widespread in North China (Liu et al., 2007), which is reected by the higher levels of biomass burning markers (Lev and K+) in

BJ (Table 1).

3.2 Radiocarbon results

Although the chemical compositions of PM2.5 can largely be identied by state-of-the-art analytical technology (R.-J. Huang et al., 2014), there is not a robust method of performing direct and precise PM2.5 source apportionment exists due to the complexity of the emission sources and atmospheric processes. Carbonaceous aerosols are not only the most important fractions of PM2.5, but also the main factors that signicantly lead to severe air pollution and deterioration in atmospheric visibility (Cao et al., 2003, 2007;Deng et al., 2008; Yang et al., 2011) owing to their strong ability for scattering and absorbing visible light (Bond et al.,

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2006; Kanakidou et al., 2005). Source apportionment based on 14C analysis has the potential to unambiguously separate the various carbon species into fossil (14C-free) and non-fossil fractions (modern 14C level) (Gustafsson et al., 2009;R.-J. Huang et al., 2014; Kirillova et al., 2013; D. Liu et al., 2013; Szidat et al., 2004; Weber et al., 2007; Wozniak et al., 2012; Lewis et al., 2004), providing signicant information on the PM2.5 sources and corresponding atmospheric processes that they have undergone. Our results show that non-fossil emissions represent a signicant portion of the TC in both North and South China: 56 4 in BJ and

46 5 % in GZ, respectively (Table 2). Similar to previous

studies conducted in cities around the world (Andersson et al., 2015; Bernardoni et al., 2013; D. Liu et al., 2013; Szidat et al., 2009), EC is derived mainly from fossil-fuel combustion in urban regions. In the remote areas, biomass burning plays a more central role in EC loading. Fox example,

5070 % of EC were found coming from the burning of biomass materials in the Arctic (Barrett et al., 2015) and the nature protection area of China (Zhang et al. 2014). On average, a larger proportion of biomass burning in the EC in BJ (33 7 %) relative to GZ (20 5 %) indicates that the emis

sions of biomass burning, e.g., biofuel burning and outdoor res in North China, are higher than those in South China.This result is consistent with the other observations in this study: the mean concentrations of Lev and K+ in BJ are higher than in GZ by factors of 1.4 and 1.7, respectively (Table 1). More than half of the OC fraction is contributed by non-fossil sources in both BJ (59 4 %) and GZ (54 6 %).

Although the 14C levels in the OC in BJ and GZ have similar ranges, the cities differ considerably in the species of WIOC and WSOC. On average, the percentage of non-fossil carbon in WIOC in BJ (74 8 %) is 23 % higher than that in

GZ (51 2 %). This result is probably explained by the large

difference between North and South China in the types of biomass burned. In Beijing and its adjacent regions, annual plants, e.g., crop residues and agricultural grass, are the main materials involved in biomass burning activities (Cheng et al., 2013; Duan et al., 2004; Li et al., 2008, 2010; Yan et al., 2006). Whereas 2000 km south from BJ, in GZ, the types of biomass are marked by hardwood (Liu et al., 2014), which is further conrmed by the compositions of anhydrosugars in this study (Fig. S3). Compared to the hardwood burning (WIOC / OC = 79 %), OC aerosols emitted directly from

combustion of annual plants appeared to be more enriched in WIOC species (WIOC / OC = 97 %) (Iinuma et al., 2007),

which is probably the most important factor in the markedly higher 14C levels in WIOC in BJ compared to those in GZ.In contrast, WSOC in BJ is more depleted in 14C than that in GZ: 46 13 % of WSOC in BJ and 60 11 % in GZ is di

rectly correlated with non-fossil sources. WSOC is regarded as a mixture of mainly SOC and POCbb (Ding et al., 2008;

Weber et al., 2007). Such a difference in the WSOC-14C lev

els between the two cities could be attributed mainly to the

origins and formation processes of the SOC, of which will be discussed below.

3.3 Source apportionment

A source apportionment model for carbonaceous aerosols using the combined measurements of 14C and biomass burning tracers was recently reported (Liu et al., 2014). Detailed information with respect to this model is provided in the Methodology section of the paper. Signicantly distinct characteristics between BJ and GZ are observed for the source apportionments of TC (Fig. 3). The largest contributor to TC in BJ is SOCnf (28 2 %), followed by

SOCf (26 5 %), POCbb (24 1 %), POCf (10 4 %), ECf

(8 2 %), and ECbb (4 1 %), whereas in GZ, an order

of SOCnf (31 2 %) > POCf (22 4 %) > ECf (18 3 %)

> SOCf (15 9 %) > POCbb (10 4 %) > ECbb (4 1 %) is

observed. Consequently, the fraction of primary sources, i.e., the sum of POC and EC, was higher in GZ (54 9 %) than

that in BJ (46 4 %). The variability of the source apportion

ment results represent the 1 standard deviation of the individual sources during the study. It should be noted that model uncertainties of the contributors mainly depend on correction factors such as (POC / Lev)bb emission ratios of wood-burning markers and conversion factors for determination of the fraction of contemporary carbon from 14C analysis. Typical relative model uncertainties were recently estimated by Zhang et al. (2015) using a similar model approach as 20-25 % for SOCnf, SOCf, POCbb, and POCf as well as 13 %

for ECf, and ECbb.

POC and EC aerosols are independent of the conditions of atmospheric gas reactions and thus can directly reect the characteristics of local emission sources. The total proportions of ECf and POCf in GZ (40 6 %) are signicantly

higher than those in BJ (19 5 %), indicating high emissions

from fossil fuel combustion in GZ. The ratios of POCf to ECf are similar in both cities: 1.3 0.42 in BJ and 1.2 0.26 in

GZ. These fossil fuel-derived POC / EC ratios in ambient air are considerably lower than the ratios directly derived from industrial coal combustion (2.76.1) (Zhang et al., 2008) but close to those of trafc exhaust (0.51.3) (He et al., 2008;Zhou et al., 2014). The total proportions of ECbb and POCbb in the TC accounted for 28 1 and 15 5 % in BJ and GZ,

respectively, which conrmed the greater impact of biomass burning on regional air pollution in North China.

Of SOC, 52 5 and 71 11 % are derived from non-fossil

sources in BJ and GZ, respectively. Using multi-technique integrated methods, R.-J. Huang et al. (2014) found that 35 54 and 6585 % of the SOC were derived from non-fossil sources in BJ and GZ, respectively, which is consistent with our results. These ndings underline the importance of the non-fossil contribution to SOC formation in Chinas megacities. The considerable difference in SOC composition between the two cities might be due to the signicant difference in SOC precursors and corresponding atmospheric reaction

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Table 2. Percentages of non-fossil sources in various carbon species (%).

Location Sampling data OC WIOC WSOC EC TC SOC

Beijing 16 Mar 58 4 67 3 52 3 34 2 55 4 52 11

(BJ, North China) 22 Mar 54 5 83 4 53 3 33 2 60 5 55 11

25 Mar 59 4 65 3 52 2 24 1 54 4 58 13

10 Apr 54 4 82 4 22 1 43 2 53 4 43 11

Average 59 4 74 8 46 13 33 7 56 4 52 5 Guangzhou 11 Apr 59 4 52 2 68 3 28 1 52 4 74 10

(GZ, South China) 12 Apr 53 4 50 2 60 3 21 1 46 4 77 10

13 Apr 57 4 53 3 63 3 19 1 49 7 75 8

15 Apr 42 3 48 2 39 2 18 1 38 3 49 5

17 Apr 58 4 50 2 68 3 12 1 45 4 78 6

Average 54 6 51 2 60 11 20 5 46 5 71 11

Figure 2. Correlations between the primary biomass burning OC (POCbb) and the non-fossil secondary organic carbon (SOCnf).

processes. In spring (from March to early April), in North China, the land is bare and trees still leaess, whereas, in South China there is lush vegetation, which release non-fossil VOCs (isoprene, -pinene, -caryophyllene, etc.), which are SOC precursors. Additionally, a close relationship is ob-served between POCbb and SOCnf in BJ (R2 = 0.99) but

not in GZ (R2 = 0.50) (Fig. 2), indicating the predominant

role of biomass burning-derived VOCs in SOCnf formation in North China. Combined with the fact that the total proportion of ECbb and POCbb in TC in BJ is almost twofold higher than that in GZ, efforts to control biomass burning, such as fugitive open res, burning of agricultural residue, and domestic cooking and heating, are likely the most means of mitigating haze pollution in the North China region. In addition to the difference in the SOC precursors, the difference in meteorological conditions between the two cities is another likely reason for the difference in SOC composition. Compared to fossil-derived SOC, non-fossil SOC would preferentially be formed in a higher humidity environment (Liu et al., 2014; Favez et al., 2008). The relative humidity in GZ (79, 66 95 %) is much higher than that in BJ (48, 1979 %) during the sampling campaign.

Figure 3. Relative contributions (%) of different carbon species to total carbon with variability of the individual sources during the study. For model uncertainties of the individual fractions see Sect. 3.3.

3.4 Source dynamics of carbonaceous aerosols during haze process

Particulate-derived haze pollution is characterized by an elevated PM2.5 mass concentration due to the rapid physical accumulation and intensive atmospheric reactions. Knowledge of the source dynamics of the ne particles is crucial to understanding haze pollution.

An integrated haze process is observed in GZ from 11 to 17 April (Fig. S4). From 11 April (65 g m3), the

PM2.5 concentration increases sharply at an average rate of 34 g m3 day1 for 2 days, then reaches a plateau from 13 to 15 April (132145 g m3), and fall sharply to 76 g m3 on 17 April at a rate of 35 g m3 day1. To illustrate this haze bloom-decay process, all component concentrations (C)

are normalized to the concentration on the rst day (Co).

The concentrations for these components are listed in Supplement Table S1. As shown in Fig. 4c, both total primary and secondary matter concentrations increase by a factor of

1.5 from the rst day to the second day (blooming stage), indicating that direct emissions and atmospheric reactions

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Figure 4. Dynamic changes for the primary and secondary matters in Chinese cities. Detailed concentrations and the calculation methods are shown in Table S2. The rst day is 11 April in Guangzhou. For Beijing, samples are ordered by their PM2.5 concentrations. All concentrations (C) are normalized to that of a reference day (Co), i.e., the rst day and the day with the lowest PM2.5 concentration for Guangzhou and

Beijing, respectively. PI: primary ions; POMf: primary fossil organic matter; POMbb: biomass burning organic matter; SOMf: secondary fossil organic matter; SOMnf: secondary non-fossil organic matter.

played similar roles in PM2.5 growth during this phase. Notably, primary fossil organic matter (POMf), ECf and NO3 have the highest formation rates, with the values of C/Co > 2.0 (Fig. 4a, b), implying greater contribution of vehicle exhaust to the ne particles since NO3 is an indicator of trafc emissions. At the haze outburst (the third day which is also the initial day of haze), the growth rates of total primary and secondary matter diverge signicantly, and the C/Co values are 1.6 and 2.6, respectively, suggesting that atmospheric reactions started to play a more important role in the particle growth than direct emission-derived particles. The growth of POMf, ECf, secondary fossil organic matter (SOMf) and

NO3 (C/Co > 3.0) are more rapid than that of the other components, again indicating the important role of vehicle emissions. On the last day of the haze episode, all primary matter C/Co values markedly decrease, with the exception of unidentied materials. This phenomenon could be explained by the rapid shift in the pollutant sources transported by the air masses. As shown in Fig.1, air masses collected at the fth day originated from southern GZ, a major area of anthropogenic pollutant emission (Zheng et al., 2009) incorporating large-scale industry city districts, such as Foshan, Zhongshan and Dongguan. These industry-derived air masses are likely enriched with those materials that are not identied

in this study, such as mineral dust. Furthermore, the C/Co values for industry-related secondary matter such as SO24 (an indicator for industrial emissions) and SOMf showed a clear increase on the same day. The reason for the decline in the C/Co values of SOMnf is probably due to the dilution of biogenic and/or biomass burning VOCs with the invasion of these industry-related air masses. All of the C/Co values of the secondary aerosols decrease markedly on the seventh day (Fig. 4a, b), indicating that the atmospheric reactions has weakened in the post-haze phase, due in part to the scavenging effect of the precipitation that occurred on 16 April on the aged aerosols (Fig. S1).

In BJ, PM2.5 concentrations remain high during the sampling period, and no clear bloom-decay haze process similar to that observed in GZ is captured. It should be noted, however, that samples for the 14C measurements are not collected on consecutive days in BJ, as is the case for GZ. Therefore, C/Co values are plotted in Fig. 4 along the increasing trend of PM2.5 concentrations. After comparing the characteristics of relative lower and higher PM2.5 loadings, a recent study revealed that severe haze pollution in North China is controlled by the secondary matters (R.-J. Huang et al., 2014). Our results conrm this conclusion and nd an anomalous relationship between PM2.5 level and secondary

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matter (Fig. 4f), pointing out that atmospheric reactivity is not sufcient for the initiation of strong haze events. To a large extent, PM2.5 and secondary aerosols in North China depends on meteorological conditions and the origins of air masses (Guo et al., 2014). PM2.5 pollution on 25 March is more severe than that on 16 March, while the C/Co of total secondary matter 16 March is much higher than 25 March (Fig. 4f). Most air masses reaching on 16 March come from the most polluted region in North China, i.e., southern BJ (Figs. 1 and S2). These migrated aerosols underwent lots of atmospheric reactions and aging processes. On the other hand, NO3 displays the highest growth rate among all of the types of matter, indicating that trafc emissions contribute most to the air pollution. However, SOMnf, which in this study is mostly derived from biomass burning (Sect. 3.3), plays a more important role than SOMf (Fig. 4e), implying the importance of biomass burning in haze formation in BJ.This is much different from that in South China (Fig. 4b).Furthermore, the NH+4C/Co along the increase of PM2.5 loading in BJ is 510 times as high as that in GZ. This

is probably because North China, especially those regions in southern BJ (Heibei, Henan and Shandong), has the most intensive NH+4 emissions from fertilizer and livestock in China (Huang et al., 2012; Zhang et al., 2010b). In addition, it is reported that the emission factor of NH+4 from annual plant burning (47 mg kg1) is found to be approximately vefold that of hardwood burning (10 mg kg1) (Iinuma et al., 2007).

Therefore, the much higher NH+4 growth rate in BJ compared to that of GZ may partly be attributed to the importance of agricultural residue burning in North China.

4 Conclusions

Severely high loadings of carbonaceous aerosols (CAs) regarding the deterioration of air quality, risk of human health, and abnormal change of climate system in Chinese megacities has drawn a lot of scientic and public attention.Through the combined measurements of powerful source tracers (radiocarbon and anhydrosugars), this study reveals the signicant differences of the origins of various CAs in the megacities of North (Beijing) and South China (Guangzhou).The contribution of non-fossil sources (e.g., domestic heating and cooking) to total carbon (TC), organic carbon (OC), water-soluble OC (WSOC), water-insoluble OC (WIOC), and elemental carbon (EC) is 56 4 59 4, 46 13, 74 8,

and 33 7 % in Beijing, and 46 5, 54 6, 60 11, 51 2,

and 20 5 % in Guangzhou, respectively. Overall, non-

fossil sources play a more important role in CAs in North China than in South China. Lower contribution of non-fossil sources to secondary OC in Beijing than Guangzhou is largely because of the much lower humidity and limited biogenic volatile organic compounds in North China during the sampling campaign. The air pollution controls in China probably should be enacted and performed according to the

local circumstances. Finally, we nd that primary aerosols play an equally important role on the haze blooming phase as secondary aerosols in South China, yet nitrate and fossil secondary organic matter predominate in the haze stage.

The Supplement related to this article is available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-2985-2016-supplement

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Acknowledgements. This research was supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program (B) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant no. XDB05040503), the Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC; no. 41430645 and 41473101), the Guangzhou Science and Technology Plan Projects (no. 201504010002), and the Guangzhou Elites Scholarship Council (JY201332). The authors gratefully acknowledge the NOAA Air Resources Laboratory (ARL) for the provision of the HYSPLIT transport and dispersion mode. We also gratefully acknowledge the MODIS mission scientists and associated NASA personnel for the production of AOD data. This is a contribution (No.IS-2203) of GIGCAS.

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