Inorganic nitrogen over the western North Atlantic Ocean

The concentrations of the reactive nitrogen species NO2, NOx(= NO + NO2), NOy (the sum of all compounds of nitrogen and oxygen with the exception of N2O), particulate NO3−, and volatile NO3− were measured from ship and aircraft platforms over the western North Atlantic Ocean as part of the GCE/CASE/WATOX experiment. Air masses sampled were divided into continentally influenced and typical marine on the basis of trajectories, and radon and black carbon measurements. From the NO3− measurements on size separated aerosol and the altitude variations of volatile NO3− and particulate NO3−, a significant interaction between volatile NO3− and sea salt aerosol was indicated. The average marine concentrations measured were: 18 nmol m−3 for NO2, 29 nmol m−3 for NOx, 46 nmol m−3 for NOy, and 10 nmol m−3 for total inorganic NO3−. The reactive nitrogen species were present at concentrations some 40 times those encountered in the remote Pacific Ocean, whereas the inorganic NO3− was only 3 times higher.

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