Methods for identifying aged ship plumes and estimating contribution to aerosol exposure downwind of shipping lanes

Ausmeel, Stina; Eriksson, Axel; Ahlberg, Erik; Kristensson, Adam

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-4479-2019

Articles | Volume 12, issue 8

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-4479-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-4479-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 12, issue 8

Research article

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22 Aug 2019

Research article |

| 22 Aug 2019

Methods for identifying aged ship plumes and estimating contribution to aerosol exposure downwind of shipping lanes

Stina Ausmeel, Axel Eriksson, Erik Ahlberg, and Adam Kristensson

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RC1: 'Methods for identifying aged ship plumes and estimating contribution to aerosol exposure downwind of shipping lanes', Anonymous Referee #1, 04 Mar 2019
- AC1: 'Final author comment for Referee 1', Stina Ausmeel, 09 May 2019
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- AC2: 'Final author comment for Referee 2.', Stina Ausmeel, 09 May 2019

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Short summary

We present a method for identifying individual exhaust plumes of air pollution emitted from shipping, by linking these to specific ships using identification information which all ships transmit. We also quantify the contribution of these plumes to local particle levels, which has relevance for health effects. Ships emit a lot of nanometre-sized particles, which proved to be a good indicator of plumes at a distance of about 10 km downwind of a shipping lane in the Baltic Sea.