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Trans-boundary and in-country transport of air pollutants observed in Kobe, Japan by high frequent filter pack sampling method

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The seasonal intensive sampling of gases and particulate matter in ambient air was conducted at the site established in urban area of Japan to study the seasonal difference of the temporal variation of gases and particulate matter concentrations in urban atmosphere as well as to illustrate the different transport regimes that impacts air pollutants. The sample was collected by the four-stage filter-pack method with 6-h interval for one week in four seasons (spring, summer, autumn and winter). The trans-boundary transport of air pollutants with high concentration was characteristically observed in the spring sampling. On the other hand, we could successfully detect the in-country transports of air pollutants in the summer sampling. Four-season’s intensive survey considered, we could show the characteristic transport of air pollutants to provide the episodic high concentration for ambient air in the urban area of Japan, and successfully illustrate the seasonal-dependent transport regimes to impact on air pollutants.

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  1. The University of Kitakyushu, 1-1 Hibikino Wakamatsu-ku, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, 808-0135, Japan

    Masahide Aikawa

  2. Hyogo Prefectural Institute of Environmental Sciences, 3-1-18 Yukihira-cho, Suma-ku, Kobe, Hyogo, 654-0037, Japan

    Masahide Aikawa, Takatoshi Hiraki, Yosuke Horie, Ryouhei Nakatsubo & Chisato Matsumura

  3. National Institute for Environmental Studies, 16-2 Onogawa, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8506, Japan

    Masahide Aikawa & Hitoshi Mukai

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Aikawa, M., Hiraki, T., Horie, Y. et al. Trans-boundary and in-country transport of air pollutants observed in Kobe, Japan by high frequent filter pack sampling method. J Atmos Chem 74, 505–518 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10874-016-9357-1

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