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Roadside Particle Number Distributions and Relationships between Number Concentrations, Meteorology, and Traffic along a Northern California Freeway
Particle number distributions were measured simultaneously upwind and downwind of a suburban-agricultural freeway to determine relationships with traffic and meteorological parameters. Average traffic volumes were 6330 vehicles/hr with 10% heavy-duty vehicles, and volumes were higher in July than November. Most downwind particle number distributions were bimodal, with a primary mode at (similar to)10-25 nm, indicating that newly formed particles were sampled. Total downwind 6-237 nm particle number concentrations (N tot) ranged from 9.3 x 103 to 2.5 x 10 5 cm-3, with higher daily average concentrations in November compared with July. N tot correlated with wind speed, temperature, and relative humidity. Upwind photochemically initiated nucleation likely led to elevated background nanoparticle concentrations in July, as evidenced by increasing upwind distribution modal diameter with increasing temperature and a strong correlation between upwind Ntot and solar radiation. Also in summer, Ntot showed stronger correlation with heavy-duty vehicle volumes than wind speed, temperature, and relative humidity. These results indicate the importance of measuring background particle size distributions simultaneously with roadside distributions. There may be a minimum vehicle volume from which useful real-world vehicle particle number distributions can be measured at roadside, even when collecting samples within 10 m of the traveled lanes.
Roadside Particle Number Distributions and Relationships between Number Concentrations, Meteorology, and Traffic along a Northern California Freeway
Particle number distributions were measured simultaneously upwind and downwind of a suburban-agricultural freeway to determine relationships with traffic and meteorological parameters. Average traffic volumes were 6330 vehicles/hr with 10% heavy-duty vehicles, and volumes were higher in July than November. Most downwind particle number distributions were bimodal, with a primary mode at (similar to)10-25 nm, indicating that newly formed particles were sampled. Total downwind 6-237 nm particle number concentrations (N tot) ranged from 9.3 x 103 to 2.5 x 10 5 cm-3, with higher daily average concentrations in November compared with July. N tot correlated with wind speed, temperature, and relative humidity. Upwind photochemically initiated nucleation likely led to elevated background nanoparticle concentrations in July, as evidenced by increasing upwind distribution modal diameter with increasing temperature and a strong correlation between upwind Ntot and solar radiation. Also in summer, Ntot showed stronger correlation with heavy-duty vehicle volumes than wind speed, temperature, and relative humidity. These results indicate the importance of measuring background particle size distributions simultaneously with roadside distributions. There may be a minimum vehicle volume from which useful real-world vehicle particle number distributions can be measured at roadside, even when collecting samples within 10 m of the traveled lanes.
Roadside Particle Number Distributions and Relationships between Number Concentrations, Meteorology, and Traffic along a Northern California Freeway
Nanzetta, M.Katherine (author) / Holmen, Britt A. (author)
Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association ; 54 ; 540-554
2004
15 Seiten, 30 Quellen
Article (Journal)
English
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