Nature Communications (Mar 2019)
Urban pollution greatly enhances formation of natural aerosols over the Amazon rainforest
- Manish Shrivastava,
- Meinrat O. Andreae,
- Paulo Artaxo,
- Henrique M. J. Barbosa,
- Larry K. Berg,
- Joel Brito,
- Joseph Ching,
- Richard C. Easter,
- Jiwen Fan,
- Jerome D. Fast,
- Zhe Feng,
- Jose D. Fuentes,
- Marianne Glasius,
- Allen H. Goldstein,
- Eliane Gomes Alves,
- Helber Gomes,
- Dasa Gu,
- Alex Guenther,
- Shantanu H. Jathar,
- Saewung Kim,
- Ying Liu,
- Sijia Lou,
- Scot T. Martin,
- V. Faye McNeill,
- Adan Medeiros,
- Suzane S. de Sá,
- John E. Shilling,
- Stephen R. Springston,
- R. A. F. Souza,
- Joel A. Thornton,
- Gabriel Isaacman-VanWertz,
- Lindsay D. Yee,
- Rita Ynoue,
- Rahul A. Zaveri,
- Alla Zelenyuk,
- Chun Zhao
Affiliations
- Manish Shrivastava
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Meinrat O. Andreae
- Department of Geology and Geophysics, King Saud University
- Paulo Artaxo
- Institute of Physics, University of São Paulo
- Henrique M. J. Barbosa
- Institute of Physics, University of São Paulo
- Larry K. Berg
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Joel Brito
- IMT Lille Douai, University of Lille, SAGE
- Joseph Ching
- Meteorological Research Institute, Japan Meteorological Agency
- Richard C. Easter
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Jiwen Fan
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Jerome D. Fast
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Zhe Feng
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Jose D. Fuentes
- Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, Penn State University
- Marianne Glasius
- Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University
- Allen H. Goldstein
- Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California
- Eliane Gomes Alves
- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA)
- Helber Gomes
- Institute of Atmospheric Sciences, Federal University of Alagoas
- Dasa Gu
- Department of Earth System Science, University of California
- Alex Guenther
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Shantanu H. Jathar
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Colorado State University
- Saewung Kim
- Department of Earth System Science, University of California
- Ying Liu
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Sijia Lou
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Scot T. Martin
- School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University
- V. Faye McNeill
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University
- Adan Medeiros
- Amazonas State University, Center of Superior Studies of Tefé, R. Brasília
- Suzane S. de Sá
- School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University
- John E. Shilling
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Stephen R. Springston
- Environmental and Climate Sciences Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory
- R. A. F. Souza
- Amazonas State University, Superior School of Technology
- Joel A. Thornton
- Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington
- Gabriel Isaacman-VanWertz
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech
- Lindsay D. Yee
- Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California
- Rita Ynoue
- Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Institute of Astronomy, Geophysics and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Sao Paulo
- Rahul A. Zaveri
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Alla Zelenyuk
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Chun Zhao
- School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08909-4
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 10,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 12
Abstract
It remains unclear how urban emissions influence the formation of secondary organic aerosols (SOA), including in the Amazon forest. Here, the authors simulate the formation of SOAs in the Amazon using a high-resolution regional chemical transport model. They find that urban emissions of NOx from Manaus enhance the production of biogenic SOA by 60–200%.
