A Preliminary Assessment of Fossil Fuel and Terrigenous Influences to Rainwater Organic Matter in Summertime in the Northern Gulf of Mexico

作者：Mitra Siddhartha^*; O**urn Christopher L; Wozniak Andrew S

来源：Aquatic Geochemistry, 2017, 23(4): 217-231.

DOI：10.1007/s10498-017-9319-5

• Gulf of Mexico
• Rainwater OC
• CDOM
• EEMs

We report here for the first time rainwater organic carbon (OC) concentration and composition collected from open waters over the Gulf of Mexico. Rainwater OC concentrations ranged from 3.7 to 17.3 mg L-1. The delta C-13 of these rainwater samples ranged from -26.7 to -24.2aEuro degrees pointing toward terrestrial and/or fossil fuel OC sources (64-100%) combined with marine OC sources. Colored dissolved OM absorbance and EEM fluorescence spectra were indicative of secondary organic aerosol from terrestrial sources as well as aromatic fossil fuel compounds. Air mass back trajectory analyses along with these results indicate that rainwater OC in the Gulf of Mexico may be influenced by oil and gas infrastructure and emissions from known lanes of shipping traffic within the Gulf. These results also suggest that anthropogenic and biogenic emissions from the southeastern continental USA impact rainwater OC in the Gulf of Mexico.

• 出版日期2017-8
• 单位East Carolina