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Industrial and wildfire aerosol pollution over world heritage Lake Baikal
- Source :
- Journal of environmental sciences (China). 107
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- Lake Baikal is the biggest reservoir of fresh water with unique flora and fauna; presently it is negatively affected by climate change, water warming, industrial emissions, shipping, touristic activities, and Siberian forest fires. The assessment of air pollution - related Baikal's ecosystem damage is an unsolved problem. Ship, based expedition exploring the Baikal atmospheric aerosol loading, was performed over the lake area in July 2018. We combine the aerosol near - water and vertical distributions over the Lake Baikal basin with meteorological observations and air mass transportation simulations. Lidar sounding of aerosol fields in the troposphere assesses the atmospheric background in the pristine areas and the pollution during fire-affected periods. Aerosol optical properties (scattering and spectral absorption) converted to the particle number size, black carbon (BC) mass, and Absorption Angstrom Exponent (AAE) provide the inside into aerosol characterization. Transport of industrial emissions from Krasnoyarsk and Irkutsk regions, and wildfire plumes from Republic of Yakutia relates the pollution sources to the increased concentrations of fine particle numbers, PM10 and BC mass over Southern and Northern/Central Baikal, respectively. The highest PM10 and BC are associated to the harbor and touristic areas of intensive shipping and residential biomass burning. Deposition estimates applied to aerosol data exhibit the pollution fluxes to water surface over the whole Baikal area. AAE marks the impact of coal combustion, residential biomass burning, and wildfires indicating the high pollution level of the Lake Baikal ecological system .
- Subjects :
- Pollution
Environmental Engineering
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
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Air pollution
Climate change
010501 environmental sciences
medicine.disease_cause
Atmospheric sciences
01 natural sciences
Wildfires
Troposphere
medicine
Environmental Chemistry
Ecosystem
Air mass
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
General Environmental Science
media_common
Aerosols
Air Pollutants
General Medicine
Aerosol
Deposition (aerosol physics)
Environmental science
Environmental Monitoring
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Details
- ISSN :
- 10010742
- Volume :
- 107
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of environmental sciences (China)
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....d4aabf68f31b8845aef5942497a198f9