Source apportionment of VOCs and their impacts on surface ozone in an industry city of Baoji, Northwestern China.

ABSTRACT: Level of surface ozone (O₃) has been increasing continuously in China in recent years, while its contributors and formation pathways are less understood. In this study, distributions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and the roles on O₃ pollution have been investigated in a typical industrial city of Baoji in Northwestern China by means of monitoring of their concentrations and other trace gases_. The air samples have been collected at three sites according to urban function area. Concentration of VOCs in Weibin site, which near to industrial zone, was higher than most of other cities in China, and the ambient VOCs were dominated by aromatics and alkenes. The temporal variations of VOCs and O₃ coincided with the surface wind, implying that the

SUBMITTER: Xue Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5577141 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature