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Ambient air particulate total lung deposited surface area (LDSA) levels in urban Europe

  • Xiansheng Liu*
  • , Hadiatullah Hadiatullah
  • , Xun Zhang
  • , Pedro Trechera
  • , Marjan Savadkoohi
  • , Meritxell Garcia-Marlès
  • , Cristina Reche
  • , Noemí Pérez
  • , David C.S. Beddows
  • , Imre Salma
  • , Wanda Thén
  • , Panayiotis Kalkavouras
  • , Nikos Mihalopoulos
  • , Christoph Hueglin
  • , David C. Green
  • , Anja H. Tremper
  • , Benjamin Chazeau
  • , Grégory Gille
  • , Nicolas Marchand
  • , Jarkko V. Niemi
  • Hanna E. Manninen, Harri Portin, Nadezda Zikova, Jakub Ondracek, Michael Norman, Holger Gerwig, Susanne Bastian, Maik Merkel, Kay Weinhold, Andrea Casans, Juan Andrés Casquero-Vera, Francisco J. Gómez-Moreno, Begoña Artíñano, Maria Gini, Evangelia Diapouli, Suzanne Crumeyrolle, Véronique Riffault, Jean Eudes Petit, Olivier Favez, Jean Philippe Putaud, Sebastiao Martins Dos Santos, Hilkka Timonen, Pasi P. Aalto, Tareq Hussein, Janne Lampilahti, Philip K. Hopke, Alfred Wiedensohler, Roy M. Harrison, Tuukka Petäjä, Marco Pandolfi, Andrés Alastuey, Xavier Querol
*Corresponding author for this work
  • Barcelona
  • Tianjin University
  • Beijing Technology and Business University
  • Hotan Normal College
  • Polytechnic University of Catalonia
  • Eotvos Lorand University
  • University of Crete
  • National Observatory of Athens
  • Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa)
  • MRC Centre for Environment and Health
  • Imperial College London
  • Aix-Marseille Université
  • Paul Scherrer Institute
  • Regional Network for Air Quality Monitoring of Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur
  • Helsinki Region Environmental Services Authority (HSY)
  • Czech Academy of Sciences
  • SLB-analys
  • German Environment Agency (UBA)
  • Saxon State Office for Environment
  • Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research
  • University of Granada
  • CIEMAT
  • Demokritos National Centre for Scientific Research
  • Université de Lille
  • Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement
  • Institut National de l’Environnement Industriel et des Risques
  • European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC)
  • Finnish Meteorological Institute
  • University of Helsinki
  • University of Jordan
  • University of Rochester
  • University of Birmingham
  • King Abdulaziz University

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Abstract

This study aims to picture the phenomenology of urban ambient total lung deposited surface area (LDSA) (including head/throat (HA), tracheobronchial (TB), and alveolar (ALV) regions) based on multiple path particle dosimetry (MPPD) model during 2017–2019 period collected from urban background (UB, n = 15), traffic (TR, n = 6), suburban background (SUB, n = 4), and regional background (RB, n = 1) monitoring sites in Europe (25) and USA (1). Briefly, the spatial-temporal distribution characteristics of the deposition of LDSA, including diel, weekly, and seasonal patterns, were analyzed. Then, the relationship between LDSA and other air quality metrics at each monitoring site was investigated. The result showed that the peak concentrations of LDSA at UB and TR sites are commonly observed in the morning (06:00–8:00 UTC) and late evening (19:00–22:00 UTC), coinciding with traffic rush hours, biomass burning, and atmospheric stagnation periods. The only LDSA night-time peaks are observed on weekends. Due to the variability of emission sources and meteorology, the seasonal variability of the LDSA concentration revealed significant differences (p = 0.01) between the four seasons at all monitoring sites. Meanwhile, the correlations of LDSA with other pollutant metrics suggested that Aitken and accumulation mode particles play a significant role in the total LDSA concentration. The results also indicated that the main proportion of total LDSA is attributed to the ALV fraction (50 %), followed by the TB (34 %) and HA (16 %). Overall, this study provides valuable information of LDSA as a predictor in epidemiological studies and for the first time presenting total LDSA in a variety of European urban environments.

Original languageEnglish
Article number165466
JournalScience of the Total Environment
Volume898
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 10 Nov 2023
Externally publishedYes

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
    SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities

Keywords

  • Particle number size distribution
  • Spatial variability
  • Total lung deposited surface area
  • Traffic emissions
  • Urban environment

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