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Absorbable aerosols based on OMI data: a case study in three provinces of Northeast China

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In order to assess the status of aerosol pollution in three selected Northeast Provinces of China, Ozone Monitoring Instrument/Aura Near UV Aerosol Optical Depth and Single Scattering Albedo 1-orbit L2 Swath 13 × 24km V003 (OMAERUV) daily product data was used to evaluate (1) the ultraviolet aerosol index (UVAI) temporal and spatial distribution of the three Northeast Provinces from 2009 to 2018; (2) the potential pollution source areas of provincial capital cities; and (3) future trend changes. Furthermore, the influencing factors were also analyzed and are discussed herein. The results show that the UVAI in the Northeast Provinces exhibit an overall increasing trend, with an average annual increase rate of 2.99%. Seasonally, the UVAI increasing trend in winter is higher than in spring which in turn is higher than autumn. And summer has the least increasing trend. In addition, the external source of absorbent aerosol transmission is mainly in the southwest. Moreover, the overall UVAI remains relatively constant in the central part of the region, and increases slightly and significantly in the south and north directions. In general, spring, autumn, and winter all exhibit increasing trends in varying degrees. The difference between the forecasted and actual UVAI values in the Northeast Provinces does not exceed 10%; thus, the forecasting reliability is good. Also, UVAI has different degrees of correlation with natural factors, such as precipitation and temperature. With respect to social factors, UVAI and population density (a social factor) are positively correlated in 98.2% of the study area, demonstrating that there is a strong positive correlation between UVAI and smoke and dust emissions.

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Example 1: The data for UVAI analysis in this study originated from the NASA website. The original dataset data can be accessed from: https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/miradorguide?tree=project&project=OMI&dataGroup=L2_V003&dataset=OMNO2.003&version=003&year=2018&longname=OMI%2FAura&tdsourcetag=s_pcqq_aiomsg

Example 2: The DEM, precipitation, wind direction, wind speed, and temperature data used herein are from the Resource Science Data Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (http://www.resdc.cn), and the population density data is from the LandScan data website (https://landscan.ornl.gov). Many socio-economic and human activity data such as GDP, secondary industry GDP, building construction area, total energy consumption, and smoke and dust emissions are from the National Bureau of Statistics of the People’s Republic of China.stats.gov.cn) and Guangdong Provincial Bureau of Statistics (http://stats.gd.gov.cn/tjsj186/index.html).

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This research satellite data come from NASA Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC) in the USA. We appreciate the linguistic assistance provided by TopEdit (www.topeditsci.com) during the preparation of this manuscript.

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    Jiale Duan, Tianzhen Ju, Jiachen Fan, Ruirui Huang, Zhuohong Liang, Guoqaing Zhang & Tunyang Geng

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  3. Shandong Academy of Environmental Sciences, Jinan, China

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Duan, J., Ju, T., Wang, Q. et al. Absorbable aerosols based on OMI data: a case study in three provinces of Northeast China. Environ Monit Assess 193, 479 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-021-09249-x

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