Title of article :
Simultaneous DOAS and mist-chamber IC measurements of HONO in Houston, TX
Author/Authors :
Stutz، نويسنده , , Jochen and Oh، نويسنده , , Hoon-Ju and Whitlow، نويسنده , , Sallie I. and Anderson، نويسنده , , Casey and Dibb، نويسنده , , Jack E. and Flynn، نويسنده , , James H. and Rappenglück، نويسنده , , B. and Lefer، نويسنده , , B.، نويسنده ,
Issue Information :
روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2010
Abstract :
Nitrous acid is an important component of nighttime N-oxide chemistry, and provides a significant source of both OH and NO in polluted urban air masses shortly after sunrise. Several recent studies have called for new sources of HONO to account for daytime levels much higher than are consistent with current understanding. However, measurement of HONO is problematic, with most in-situ techniques reporting higher values than simultaneous optical measurements by long-path DOAS, especially during daytime. The discrepancy has been attributed to positive interference in the in-situ techniques, negative interference in DOAS retrievals, the difficulty of comparing the different air masses sampled by the methods, or combinations of these.
August and September 2006, HONO mixing ratios from collocated long-path DOAS and automated mist-chamber/ion chromatograph (MC/IC) systems ranged from several ppbv during morning rush hour to daytime minima near 100 pptv. Agreement between the two techniques was excellent across this entire range during many days, showing that both instruments accurately measured HONO during this campaign. A small bias towards higher LP-DOAS observations at night can be attributed to slow vertical mixing leading to pronounced HONO profiles. A positive daytime bias of the MC/IC instrument during several days in late August/early September was correlated with photochemically produced compounds such as ozone, HNO3 and HCHO, but not with NO2, NOx, HO2NO2, or the NO2 photolysis rate. While an interferant could not be identified organic nitrites appear a possible explanation for our observations.
Keywords :
HONO , Measurement techniques , nitrous acid
Journal title :
Atmospheric Environment
Journal title :
Atmospheric Environment