Kosa (yellow sand) components in precipitation collected at central Japan |
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| Authors: | Tetsuji Chohji Moritsugu Kitamura Masahiro Tabata |
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| Institution: | 1.Department of Ecomaterials Engineering,Toyama National College of Technology,Toyama,Japan;2.Ishikawa Prefectural Institute of Public Health and Environmental Science,Taiyogaoka Kanazawa,Japan |
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| Abstract: | In east Asia, acidic gases derived from fossil fuel combustion have increased in the past decades. On the other hand, the Asian dust, also called Kosa (yellow sand) is transported following windstorms from arid lands in the Asian continent. Many researchers have been interested in the reaction between acidic aerosols and Kosa aerosols as well as the long-range transport of these emissions. To investigate the characteristics of chemical components in precipitation on a long-term basis over Japan, precipitation was sequentially collected from April 1984 to March 1997 at Kanazawa located near the coast of the Sea of Japan. Precipitation samples were collected at 1 mm intervals for the first 5 mm rainfall and all volume of rainwater after 6 mm for all precipitation events with an automatic wet only precipitation collector. According to the analyses of precipitation including Kosa aerosols during Kosa periods, the reaction in the air between Kosa and acidic components during the long-range transport was discussed. |
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