Display options
Cite
Choularton TW, Wicks AJ, Downer RM, et al. A field study of the generation of nitrate in a hill cap cloud. Environ Pollut. 1992;75(1):69-73doi: 10.1016/0269-7491(92)90058-i.
Choularton, T. W., Wicks, A. J., Downer, R. M., Gallagher, M. W., Penkett, S. A., Bandy, B. J., Dollard, G. J., Jones, B. M., Davies, T. D., Gay, M. J., Tyler, B. J., Fowler, D., Cape, J. N., & Hargreaves, K. J. (1992). A field study of the generation of nitrate in a hill cap cloud. Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987), 75(1), 69-73. https://doi.org/10.1016/0269-7491(92)90058-i
Choularton, T W, et al. "A field study of the generation of nitrate in a hill cap cloud." Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987) vol. 75,1 (1992): 69-73. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/0269-7491(92)90058-i
Choularton TW, Wicks AJ, Downer RM, Gallagher MW, Penkett SA, Bandy BJ, Dollard GJ, Jones BM, Davies TD, Gay MJ, Tyler BJ, Fowler D, Cape JN, Hargreaves KJ. A field study of the generation of nitrate in a hill cap cloud. Environ Pollut. 1992;75(1):69-73. doi: 10.1016/0269-7491(92)90058-i. PMID: 15092051.
Copy Download .nbib Format: NLM
Share it on

Environ Pollut. 1992;75(1):69-73. doi: 10.1016/0269-7491(92)90058-i.

A field study of the generation of nitrate in a hill cap cloud.

Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)

T W Choularton, A J Wicks, R M Downer, M W Gallagher, S A Penkett, B J Bandy, G J Dollard, B M Jones, T D Davies, M J Gay, B J Tyler, D Fowler, J N Cape, K J Hargreaves

Affiliations

  1. Department of Pure and Applied Physics, UMIST, Manchester, UK.

PMID: 15092051 DOI: 10.1016/0269-7491(92)90058-i

Abstract

A field experiment to investigate the formation of nitrate as an airstream passes through a hill cap cloud has been performed at the UMIST field station on Great Dun Fell. It has been shown that the aerosol nitrate concentration increased by about 0.5 microg m(-3) as the airstream passed through the cloud during the night. At sunrise the nitrate production disappeared. It is suggested that the most likely mechanism for this nitrate production was due to the solution of N2O5 and NO3 formed from the reaction of NO2 with O3. These higher oxides build up overnight in the absence of short wave radiation to photolyse them. Other possible mechanisms of nitrate production are also discussed.

Publication Types