In the present study, we analyzed the chemical properties and factors impacting the sea fog water during two sea fog events over the northwestern South China Sea in March 2017, and compared our results with those of other regions. The sea fog water during these two events were highly acidic and their average pH was below 3, which was related to the high initial acidifying potential and large amounts of NO3- and SO42- not involved in the neutralization reaction. The dominant cations in the sea fog water were Na+and NH4+. The primary anions in the sea fog water over the South China Sea were Cl-and NO3-, while that over the North Pacific Ocean was mainly SO42-, and ratios of the three fog water ions near the Donghai Island were similar. Ions in the sea fog water during the two events were mainly derived from marine aerosols, while the difference was that the first low-level sea fog airflow trajectory passed over Hainan Island. Therefore, the proportion of K+in the first sea fog was much higher than that in sea water and the second. Sulfate was the key to fog water nucleation, which made ion concentration in the sea fog water during the second event higher than that during the first. A decrease in average diameter during the first sea fog formation led to an ion concentration increase, while the average diameter of sea fog water during the second event was lower than that during the first, which corresponded with a moderate ion concentration increase.

HAN Li-guo;XU Feng;XU Jian-jun;LI Ya-jie;CHAI Bo-yu;Lü Jing-jing

College of Ocean and Meteorology/South China Sea Institute of Marine Meteorology(SIMM), Guangdong Ocean University,Zhanjiang,Guangdong 524088 China;CMA-GDOU Joint Laboratory for Marine Meteorology,Guangdong Ocean University,Zhanjiang,Guangdong 524088 China;Key Laboratory of Climate, Resources and Environment in Continental Shelf Sea and Deep Sea of Department of Education of Guangdong Province,Guangdong Ocean University,Zhanjiang,Guangdong 524088 China;Shenzhen Institute of Guangdong Ocean University,Shenzhen,Guangdong 518120 China;Key Laboratory for Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation of China Meteorological Administration,Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology,Nanjing 210044 China

热带气象学报（英文版）

[1]HAN Li-guo;XU Feng;XU Jian-jun;LI Ya-jie;CHAI Bo-yu;Lü Jing-jing-.A Comparative Analysis of Chemical Properties and Factors Impacting Spring Sea Fog over the Northwestern South China Sea)[J].热带气象学报（英文版）,2022(03):297-307

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