| Title: | "The impact of local surface changes in Borneo on atmospheric composition at wider spatial scales: coastal processes, land-use change and air quality" |
| Author(s): | Pyle JA; Warwick NJ; Harris NR; Abas MR; Archibald AT; Ashfold MJ; Ashworth K; Barkley MP; Carver GD; Chance K; Dorsey JR; Fowler D; Gonzi S; Gostlow B; Hewitt CN; Kurosu TP; Lee JD; Langford SB; Mills G; Moller S; MacKenzie AR; Manning AJ; Misztal P; Nadzir MS; Nemitz E; Newton HM; O'Brien LM; Ong S; Oram D; Palmer PI; Peng LK; Phang SM; Pike R; Pugh TA; Rahman NA; Robinson AD; Sentian J; Samah AA; Skiba U; Ung HE; Yong SE; Young PJ; |
| Address: | "National Centre for Atmospheric Science, NCAS, UK. john.pyle@atm.ch.cam.ac.uk" |
| Journal Title: | Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 1471-2970 (Electronic) 0962-8436 (Print) 0962-8436 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "We present results from the OP3 campaign in Sabah during 2008 that allow us to study the impact of local emission changes over Borneo on atmospheric composition at the regional and wider scale. OP3 constituent data provide an important constraint on model performance. Treatment of boundary layer processes is highlighted as an important area of model uncertainty. Model studies of land-use change confirm earlier work, indicating that further changes to intensive oil palm agriculture in South East Asia, and the tropics in general, could have important impacts on air quality, with the biggest factor being the concomitant changes in NO(x) emissions. With the model scenarios used here, local increases in ozone of around 50 per cent could occur. We also report measurements of short-lived brominated compounds around Sabah suggesting that oceanic (and, especially, coastal) emission sources dominate locally. The concentration of bromine in short-lived halocarbons measured at the surface during OP3 amounted to about 7 ppt, setting an upper limit on the amount of these species that can reach the lower stratosphere" |
| Keywords: | Agriculture Air Pollution/*analysis Arecaceae/*chemistry/physiology Atmosphere/analysis/*chemistry Borneo Bromine/chemistry Butadienes/chemistry Carbanilides/analysis/chemistry Computer Simulation Formaldehyde/chemistry Hemiterpenes/chemistry Malaysia Nit; |
| Notes: | "MedlinePyle, J A Warwick, N J Harris, N R P Abas, Mohd Radzi Archibald, A T Ashfold, M J Ashworth, K Barkley, Michael P Carver, G D Chance, K Dorsey, J R Fowler, D Gonzi, S Gostlow, B Hewitt, C N Kurosu, T P Lee, J D Langford, S B Mills, G Moller, S MacKenzie, A R Manning, A J Misztal, P Nadzir, Mohd Shahrul Mohd Nemitz, E Newton, H M O'Brien, L M Ong, Simon Oram, D Palmer, P I Peng, Leong Kok Phang, Siew Moi Pike, R Pugh, T A M Rahman, Noorsaadah Abdul Robinson, A D Sentian, J Samah, Azizan Abu Skiba, U Ung, Huan Eng Yong, Sei Eng Young, P J eng Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't England 2011/10/19 Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2011 Nov 27; 366(1582):3210-24. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0060" |
