Acidity and oxidative potential of atmospheric aerosols over a remote mangrove ecosystem during the advection of anthropogenic plumes.

Chemosphere

Department of Chemical Sciences, Bose Institute, EN Block, Sector-V, Salt Lake, Kolkata, 700091, India. Electronic address:

Published: March 2024

To investigate the acidity and the water-soluble oxidative potential of PM, during the continental biomass-burning plume transport, a three-year (2018-2020) winter-time campaign was conducted over a pristine island (21.35°N, 88.32°E) of Sundarban mangrove ecosystem situated at the shore of Bay of Bengal. The average PM concentration over Sundarban was found to be 98.3 ± 22.2 μg m for the entire study period with a high fraction of non-sea-salt- SO and water-soluble organic carbons (WSOC) that originated from the regional solid fuel burning. The thermodynamic E-AIM(IV) model had estimated that the winter-time aerosols over Sundarban were acidic (pH:2.4 ± 0.6) and mainly governed by non-sea-salt-SO. The volume and mass normalized oxidative potential of PM was found to be 1.81 ± 0.40 nmol DTT min m and 18.4 ± 6.1 pmol DTT min μg respectively which are surprisingly higher than several urban atmospheres across the world including IGP. The acid-digested water-soluble transition metals (Cu, Mn) show higher influences in the oxidative potential (under high aerosol acidity) compared to the WSOC. The study revealed that the advection of regional solid fuel burning plume and associated non-sea-salt-SO is enhancing aerosol acidity and oxidative stress that in turn alters the intrinsic properties of aerosols over such marine ecosystems rich in ecology and bio-geochemistry.

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