The concentration, dry deposition, composition study of ambient air particulate and metallic pollutants at a traffic sampling site

Aerosol samples were collected by total suspended particulate (TSP) and dry deposition plate (downward, upward) from August to November in 2003 in central Taiwan. The particulate metallic elements (Fe, Pb, Zn, Cu, Mg and Mn) were also measured in this study during the summer and autumn periods of 2003. The results obtained in this study indicated that the ambient air particulate mass concentrations in the daytime period (averaged 975.4 mg/m3) were higher than the night-time period (averaged 542.1 mg/m3). And the downward dry deposition fluxes (averaged 58.12 mg/m2-sec) were about 2.2 times that of upward dry deposition fluxes (averaged 26.37 mg/m2-sec) in the daytime period. Furthermore, the average downward dry deposition fluxes (averaged 26.54 mg/m2-sec) were also about 2.3 times that of upward dry deposition fluxes (averaged 11.52 mg/m2-sec) in the nighttime period. Moreover, the average downward dry deposition fluxes are greater than the upward dry deposition fluxes for all the heavy metals in either daytime or night-time period. In addition, the deposition velocity for mass, metallic elements (Fe, Pb, Zn, Cu, Mg and Mn) during daytime and night-time period were also calculated. In addition, the average TSP composition (mg/g) in the daytime period of the metallic elements (Fe, Pb, Zn, Cu, Mg and Mn) is 1.73, 0.26, 1.16, 0.28, 0.43 and 0.12 mg/g, respectively. And the average TSP composition in the night-time period of the metallic elements (Fe, Pb, Zn, Cu, Mg and Mn) is 3.02, 0.33, 1.57, 0.41, 0.58 and 0.13 mg/g, respectively at traffic sampling site of central Taiwan.