Source identification of particulate phosphorus in the atmosphere in Beijing.

Sci Total Environ

Sino-French Institute for Earth System Science, Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.

Published: March 2021

We tracked atmospheric phosphorus (P) in suspended particulate matter (PM) from a site in Beijing, China over a three-year period and found a new relationship between plants and atmospheric P. Concentrations of total phosphorus (TP) in the atmosphere during plant growing seasons were 2.5 times those observed in other months and levels of organic phosphorus (OP) were 3.9 times as high. TP and OP increases during growing seasons were much more significant in PM with diameters of over 2.5 μm (PM). PM collected during growing seasons included high levels of P but less nitrogen than that in primary biogenic aerosol particles (PBAPs) and differed from other emission sources such as combustion emissions and dust. A time series of OP concentrations in the atmosphere shows a time lag relative to Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) data with high levels found during early growing periods and much lower levels found during flourishing periods. Thus, we find that plants contribute to atmospheric P and especially to OP rather than to PBAP levels.

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