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Contributions of the pollutant emission in South Korea to the aerosol concentrations and depositions in Asia

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The spatial distributions of annual mean concentrations and the annual total depositions of the Asian dust (AD) aerosol and the anthropogenic aerosol (AA) in 2010 are investigated with pollutant emissions over the whole model domain of Asia and without the pollutant emission from South Korea using the Aerosol Modeling System (AMS) that is modified from the Asian Dust Aerosol Model2 (ADAM2) and the Community Multi-Scale Air Quality (CMAQ) modeling System. The annual mean surface aerosol concentrations in Asia are found to affect a wide region as a complex mixture of AA and AD aerosols. However, the contribution of the pollutant emission from South Korea is found to be limited to the neighboring regions. The annual total aerosol deposition in Asia is 485.2 Tg. However, the contribution due to the pollutant emission from South Korea is about 1.9 Tg, suggesting of no significant contribution to the environment.

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    Soon-Ung Park, In-Hye Lee, Anna Choe & Seung Jin Joo

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Park, SU., Lee, IH., Choe, A. et al. Contributions of the pollutant emission in South Korea to the aerosol concentrations and depositions in Asia. Asia-Pacific J Atmos Sci 51, 183–195 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13143-015-0069-2

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