Weekly agricultural emissions and ambient concentrations of ammonia: Validation of an emission inventory

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العنوان: Weekly agricultural emissions and ambient concentrations of ammonia: Validation of an emission inventory
المؤلفون: John Tait, Keith Jones, Johanna Zhao, Derek Hunt, Rita So, Roxanne Vingarzan, Steve C. Sheppard, Shabtai Bittman
المصدر: Atmospheric Environment. 113:108-117
بيانات النشر: Elsevier BV, 2015.
سنة النشر: 2015
مصطلحات موضوعية: Atmospheric Science, business.industry, animal diseases, Environmental engineering, Grid cell, Poultry farming, Atmospheric sciences, Atmosphere, Ammonia, chemistry.chemical_compound, Deposition (aerosol physics), Atmospheric reactions, chemistry, Agriculture, Environmental science, Emission inventory, business, General Environmental Science
الوصف: Weekly inventories for emissions of agricultural ammonia were calculated for 139 4 × 4 km grid cells over 52 weeks in the intensely farmed Lower Fraser Valley, BC. The grid cells were located both inside and outside an area that had been depopulated of poultry due to an outbreak of Avian Influenza prior to the start of the study. During the study period, ambient ammonia concentrations were measured hourly at two locations outside the cull area and one location inside the cull area. Large emission differences between grid cells and differences in temporal variation between cells were related to farming practices and meteorological factors such as temperature and rainfall. Weekly average ambient concentrations at the three sampling locations were significantly correlated with estimates of weekly emissions for many of the grid cells in the study area. Inside the cull area, ambient concentrations during the cull (week 1) were 37% of the concentrations after the cull (week 52), while outside the cull there was almost no difference between week 1 and week 52, suggesting that in normal (non-cull) conditions, about 60% of the ambient ammonia was due to poultry farms. Estimated emissions in weeks 1 and 52 for grid cells affected by the cull indicated that over 90% of the emissions came from poultry. The discrepancy in difference between week 1 and 52 for emissions and ambient concentrations could be due to atmospheric factors like transport, atmospheric reactions, dispersion or deposition; to errors in the inventory including farming data, emission factors; and omission of some non-poultry emission sources. Overall the study supports the ammonia emission inventory estimates. Detailed emission data helps in modeling ammonia in the atmosphere and is useful for developing abatement policy.
تدمد: 1352-2310
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2015.04.038
URL الوصول: https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::3187793cc6d389815e988268e5dcca1c
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2015.04.038
Rights: CLOSED
رقم الانضمام: edsair.doi...........3187793cc6d389815e988268e5dcca1c
قاعدة البيانات: OpenAIRE
الوصف
تدمد:13522310
DOI:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2015.04.038