High production of soluble iron promoted by aerosol acidification in fog

Shi, Jinhui, Guan, Yang, Ito, Akinori, Gao, Huiwang, Yao, Xiaohong, Baker, Alex R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8365-8953 and Zhang, Daizhou (2020) High production of soluble iron promoted by aerosol acidification in fog. Geophysical Research Letters, 47 (12). ISSN 0094-8276

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Abstract

The current poor understanding of soluble iron (Fe) yield in atmospheric aerosols leaves two observational facts having not yet been correctly simulated in numerical models: the high Fe solubility in aerosols with low Fe content and, hence, the wide range of observed Fe solubility. Our observation at Qingdao, a coastal city of China, revealed that soluble Fe was produced along with aerosol acidification much more efficiently in fog than under other weather conditions. The median Fe solubility in fog aerosols, 5.81%, was 3.3 times of that in haze aerosols, 5.2 times of that in clear days, and 21.5 times of that in dust aerosols. Involving fog processing in models may reduce the discrepancy in the atmospheric flux of soluble Fe to the ocean between numerical simulations and field observations.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: aerosol acidification,dust,fog,haze,iron solubility,observation model comparison,geophysics,earth and planetary sciences(all) ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1900/1908
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences
Faculty of Science > School of Natural Sciences
UEA Research Groups: Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
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Depositing User: LivePure Connector
Date Deposited: 14 Jul 2020 00:04
Last Modified: 21 Dec 2022 01:24
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/76035
DOI: 10.1029/2019GL086124

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