Articles | Volume 12, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-4479-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-4479-2019
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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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.