Aerosol size distributions within and above a deciduous forest in suburban Tokyo, Japan

摘要

Forests interact in a complex manner with the atmosphere. They are sinks for many atmospheric pollutants, and they emit biogenic volatile organic compounds that are an important natural source of small aerosol particles in the air (Seinfeld and Pandis, 1998). Chemical and physical properties of aerosols vary both temporally and spatially because of various processes (e.g., nucleation, evaporation, condensation, deposition, and scavenging) that occur during the dispersion and transportation of air masses within and above forest canopies.