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›› 2014, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (6): 1108-1118.

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Wintertime temporal-spatial distribution characteristics of air pollutants in mountain gap town Urumqi

ZHAO Ke-ming1,2,LI Xia1,LU Xin-yu2,WANG Lei3,REN Quan3,FENG Zhi-min4,MA Chao2   

  1. (1 Institute of Desert and Meteorology, Urumqi, China Meteorological Administration, Urumqi 830002, Xinjiang, China;2 Xinjiang Meteorological Observatory, Urumqi 830002, Xinjiang, China; 3 Urumqi Meteorological Bureau, Urumqi 830002, Xinjiang, China;4 Xinjiang Climatic Center, Urumqi 830002, Xinjiang, China)
  • Received:2013-12-08 Revised:2014-02-14 Online:2014-11-25

Abstract: monitoring stations increased in urban area while the air pollutants such as PM2.5,O3 and CO began to list on daily operation besides the previous pollutants(PM10,SO2 and NO2). It is should be noted that large-scale coal-gas heating engineering came into effect in urban area since last October,which implied that the amount of air pollution emission could remarkably go down as well as urban air quality could improve to a certain degree during the last winter. In order to better understand the general public concern,the tempo-spatial distribution disciplines of air pollutants were analyzed in the light of hourly pollutants data including PM10,SO2,NO2,PM2.5,CO and O3 in combination with homochronous meteorological data during January 6-March 13,2013. The results show that the models of pollutants’spatial distribution can be broken down into two types,namely urban center-suburb model and south-north model. The concentration of PM10 increases from suburb to urban center but the ones of SO2 and CO decrease from suburb to center. The concentrations of PM2.5 and O2 go up from the south to the north area while NO2 exhibits the inverse model. Judging by the new Ambient Air Quality Standard(GB3095-2012),the air quality indices of six air pollutants(O3,SO2,NO2,CO,PM10 and PM2.5)ranking from low to high are Ⅰ,Ⅱ,Ⅱ-Ⅲ,Ⅲ,Ⅳ and Ⅴ,respectively. The diurnal variations shapes of air pollutants display two classes including the double-peak structure(PM10、PM2.5 and SO2) and the single-peak structure(NO2、CO and O3). The air qualities during two periods of 13∶00-16∶00 and 7∶00-8∶00 are the poorest and the best all day,respectively. It is noteworthy that the over standard rate caused by PM2.5 is relatively high with value of 88.7%. There are positive relationships between the concentration of PM2.5 and relative humidity,visibility,wind speeds and rainfall,as well as significant inverse relationship between the frequency and the inverse temperature difference. In addition,the occurrence frequency of the elevated southeasterly gale,inversion depth and the temperature difference between top and bottom of inversion all tend to increase with the AQI rising corresponding to PM2.5 concentration,which indicate that the elevated  southeasterly gale has great impacts on the local air quality.

Key words: mountain gap town, Urumqi, air pollutants, temporal-spatial variation features, the elevated southeasterly gale

CLC Number: 

  • X51