Atmos. Chem. Phys., 18, 14445–14464, 2018 https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-14445-2018 © Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. Air quality in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River channel: a cruise campaign Zhong Li1, Chunlin Li1,2, Xingnan Ye1, Hongbo Fu1, Lin Wang1, Xin Yang1, Xinke Wang3, Zhuohui Zhao4, Haidong Kan4, Abdelwahid Mellouki5, and Jianmin Chen1,4 1Shanghai Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Particle Pollution and Prevention, Fudan Tyndall Center, Department of Environmental Science & Engineering, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China 2Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, 7610001 Rehovot, Israel 3Univ Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 CNRS, IRCELYON, 69626, Villeurbanne, France 4School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China 5Institut de Combustion, Aérothermique, Réactivité et Environnement, CNRS, 45071 Orléans CEDEX 02, France Correspondence: Jianmin Chen (
[email protected]) Received: 3 March 2018 – Discussion started: 25 April 2018 Revised: 10 August 2018 – Accepted: 3 September 2018 – Published: 10 October 2018 Abstract. The Yangtze River is the longest river in China; of levoglucosan in PM2:5 and the CO column level from nearly one-third of the national population lives along the satellite observation were greatly enhanced in the rural ar- river. Air quality over the Yangtze River is important as it eas (Anhui and Jiangxi), indicating that biomass burning may may have significant influences on the aquatic ecosystem, make a remarkable contribution to rural areas. The concen- the health of everyone living along the Yangtze River, and trations of typical tracer for heavy oil (V and Ni) signifi- regional climate change.