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Kajino et al. 2004
Kajino, M., Ueda, H., Satsumabayashi, H. and An, J. (2004). Impacts of the eruption of Miyakejima Volcano on air quality over far east Asia. Journal of Geophysical Research 109: doi: 10.1029/2004JD004762. issn: 0148-0227.

A regional-scale Eulerian Model System for Soluble Particles (MSSP) was constructed to simulate environmental changes caused by a SO42- increase as the result of the eruption of Miyakejima Volcano in the northwest Pacific Ocean. The measured volcanic SO2 emission was 9 Tg yr-1 for a year from the beginning of the eruption, July 2000. It is equivalent to 70% of global volcanic emission and 6.9% of global anthropogenic emission. Seasonal variations of the volcanic sulfate increase, and change of gas-aerosol partitioning of NH3 and pH decrease of precipitation were studied using the MSSP model for 1 year from September 2000 to August 2001, together with observations performed at Happo Ridge observatory in the mountainous area in central Japan. In winter, northwesterly wind prevails, and volcanic SO42- was mainly transported southeastward to the Pacific Ocean while volcanic SO42- was transported southwestward to Japan, Korea, and Taiwan, owing to the subtropical high-pressure system over the Pacific Ocean in summer. Temporal variations of SO42- concentrations and gas-aerosol equilibrium of NH3 at Happo Ridge were well-simulated. In the plume from the Asian continent, 98.7% of total SO42- was anthropogenic, and 63.5% of NH3 existed in aerosol phase as (NH4)2SO4. In the volcanic plume, 95.5% was volcanic, excessive sulfate fixed 100% of NH3 into aerosol phase, and aerosol was strongly acidified. Modeled annual mean pH of precipitation in Japan decreased by 0.3--1.0, which is equivalent to neutralization by yellow sand.

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Atmospheric Composition and Structure, Aerosols and particles (0345, 4801), Atmospheric Composition and Structure, Pollution—urban and regional, Atmospheric Composition and Structure, Volcanic effects, Atmospheric Composition and Structure, Troposphere—constituent transport and chemistry, Atmospheric Composition and Structure, Troposphere—composition and chemistry, regional air pollution model, volcanic sulfate, anthropogenic sulfate
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Journal of Geophysical Research
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