Ambient marine shipping emissions determined by vessel operation mode along the East China Sea

Yangzhou Wu; Dantong Liu; Xiaotong Wang; Siyuan Li; Jiale Zhang; Hao Qiu; Shuo Ding; Kang Hu; Weijun Li; Ping Tian; Quan Liu; Delong Zhao; Endian Ma; Meiting Chen; Honghui Xu; Bin Ouyang; Ying Chen; Shaofei Kong; Xinlei Ge; Huan Liu

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144713

Ambient marine shipping emissions determined by vessel operation mode along the East China Sea

Sci Total Environ. 2021 May 15:769:144713. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144713. Epub 2021 Jan 20.

Authors

Yangzhou Wu¹, Dantong Liu², Xiaotong Wang³, Siyuan Li¹, Jiale Zhang¹, Hao Qiu¹, Shuo Ding¹, Kang Hu¹, Weijun Li¹, Ping Tian⁴, Quan Liu⁴, Delong Zhao⁴, Endian Ma⁵, Meiting Chen⁶, Honghui Xu⁷, Bin Ouyang⁸, Ying Chen⁸, Shaofei Kong⁹, Xinlei Ge¹⁰, Huan Liu³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Atmospheric Sciences, School of Earth Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, PR China.
² Department of Atmospheric Sciences, School of Earth Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, PR China. Electronic address: dantongliu@zju.edu.cn.
³ State Key Joint Laboratory of ESPC, School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, PR China.
⁴ Beijing Weather Modification Office, Beijing 100089, PR China.
⁵ Putuo District Meteorological Bureau of Zhoushan, Zhoushan 316100, PR China.
⁶ Zhoushan Meteorological Bureau, Zhoushan 316021, PR China.
⁷ Zhejiang Meteorological Science Institute, Hangzhou 310008, PR China.
⁸ Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YQ, United Kingdom.
⁹ Department of Atmospheric Sciences, School of Environmental Studies, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), Wuhan 430074, PR China.
¹⁰ School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, PR China.

PMID: 33736243
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144713

Abstract

Marine shipping emissions exert important air quality and climate impacts. This study characterized the ambient pollutants predominant by emissions from a variety of marine vessel types near the mid-latitude East China Sea. Two discernible primary shipping emissions were identified by factorization analysis on detailed mass spectra of organic aerosol (OA), as emissions in maneuvering and cruise, highly linked with NO_x (and less oxidized OA, black carbon, BC) or CO (and more oxidized OA), respectively. Using radio-recorded quantities and activities of 3566 vessels mixed with slow and high-speed diesel engines, we found emission of NO_x or BC per vessel was positively correlated with vessel speed, while CO emission peaked at moderate speed. The approach here based on vessel operation mode directly linked the vessel activities to ambient concentrations of pollutants from marine shipping emission, and may synthesize the complex vessel types in shipping emission inventory.

Keywords: Aerosol and gas pollutants; Emission inventory; Marine shipping emission; Operation mode.