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Environ Int

Title:		Secondary PM(2.5) dominates aerosol pollution in the Yangtze River Delta region: Environmental and health effects of the Clean air Plan
Author(s):		Li N; Zhang H; Zhu S; Liao H; Hu J; Tang K; Feng W; Zhang R; Shi C; Xu H; Chen L; Li J;
Address:		"Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Environment Monitoring and Pollution Control, Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Atmospheric Environment and Equipment Technology, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing, 210044, China. Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Environment Monitoring and Pollution Control, Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Atmospheric Environment and Equipment Technology, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing, 210044, China. Electronic address: Hongliao@nuist.edu.cn. Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, 00014, Finland. Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200438, China. Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100094, China. Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710049, China"
Journal Title:		Environ Int
Year:		2023
Volume:		20221230
Issue:
Page Number:		107725 -
DOI:		10.1016/j.envint.2022.107725
ISSN/ISBN:		1873-6750 (Electronic) 0160-4120 (Linking)
Abstract:		"The Clean Air Plan has been active in China since 2013 to mitigate severe PM(2.5) pollution. In this study, we applied the air quality model WRF-Chem to simulate PM(2.5) in the Yangtze River Delta (YRD) region of China in 2017, with the aim of assessing the air quality improvement and its associated health burden in the final year of the Clean Air Plan. To better describe the fate of various PM(2.5) compositions, we updated the chemical mechanisms in the model beforehand, including heterogeneous sulfate reactions, aqueous secondary organic aerosol (SOA) uptake, and volatility basis set (VBS) based SOA production. Both the observation and simulation results agreed that the stringent clear air action effectively reduced the PM(2.5) pollution levels by approximately 30 %. The primary PM(2.5) (-6 approximately - 16 % yr(-1)) showed a more significant decreasing trend than the secondary PM(2.5) (-2 approximately - 8 % yr(-1)), which was mainly caused by the directivity of the clear air actions and the worsening ozone pollution in the recent years. The inconsistent decreasing trends of PM(2.5) components subsequently led to an increasing proportion of secondary PM(2.5). Nitrate particles, higher in the central and western YRD region, have replaced sulfate and have become the largest component of secondary inorganic aerosols year-round, except in summer, when strong ammonium nitrate evaporation occurs. In addition, SOA remains an important component (21 approximately 22 %) especially in summer, most of which is produced from the oxidation and ageing of semi/intermediate volatile organic compounds (S/IVOC). Furthermore, we quantified the associated health impacts and found that the Clean Air Plan has largely reduced premature mortality due to PM(2.5) exposure in the YRD region from 399.1 thousand to 295.7 thousand. Our study highlights the benefits of the Clean Air Plan and suggests that subsequent PM(2.5) improvement should be geared more towards controlling secondary pollutants"
Keywords:		*Air Pollutants/analysis Particulate Matter/analysis Environmental Monitoring *Air Pollution China Aerosols/analysis Seasons Sulfates/analysis Emission control PM(2.5) pollution Premature mortality WRF-Chem Yrd;
Notes:		"MedlineLi, Nan Zhang, Haoran Zhu, Shuhan Liao, Hong Hu, Jianlin Tang, Keqin Feng, Weihang Zhang, Ruhan Shi, Chong Xu, Hongmei Chen, Lei Li, Jiandong eng Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Netherlands 2023/01/05 Environ Int. 2023 Jan; 171:107725. doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2022.107725. Epub 2022 Dec 30"