Evidence of organic N deposition and its anthropogenic sources in China

Zhang, Ying, Zheng, Lixia, Liu, Xuejun, Jickells, Tim, Cape, John Neil, Goulding, Keith, Fangmeier, Andreas and Zhang, Fusuo (2008) Evidence of organic N deposition and its anthropogenic sources in China. Atmospheric Environment, 42 (6). pp. 1035-1041.

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Abstract

Organic nitrogen (N) is an important component of the atmospheric deposition of reactive N, but its sources are essentially unknown. Assessing whether this dissolved organic N (DON) is of natural, anthropogenic or mixed origin is critically important in attempting to determine the scale of human perturbation of the global N cycle. Here we report evidence for atmospheric organic N deposition and its anthropogenic sources in China. Precipitation samples were collected and analyzed from 15 rural, suburban and urban sites during 2005 and 2006. The average deposition of DON was 8.6 kg ha-1 yr-1 with a volume-weighted concentration of 111 µmol L-1, which was much higher than in other regions of the world. The contribution of DON to total dissolved N (TDN) was approximately 30% on average, agreeing well with other reported data in the literature. Parallel collections of wet-only and bulk deposition showed wet deposition to be 68% on average, indicating a significant dry deposition component. Combining data from the Chinese sites with those from elsewhere in the world, significant (p

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Theme - ClimateUEA
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (former - to 2017) Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Climate, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences (former - to 2017)
Depositing User:	Rachel Snow
Date Deposited:	02 Mar 2011 10:08
Last Modified:	20 Mar 2023 12:32
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/25533
DOI:	10.1016/j.atmosenv.2007.12.015

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