文摘
Laboratory and field measurements were conducted toexamine dry deposition of SO2 onto Chinese loess surfacesusing native soil sampled in the loess plateau, China.The field tests were employed in Beijing and Lanzhou, China,by directly measuring the dry deposition of SO2 on soil,which uses soil put on a collector as an SO2 passive samplingmedium. In the laboratory, a high rate of uptake to SO2deposition for Chinese soil surfaces due to the highly alkalinitywas found. The uptake of SO2 deposition was dependenton the pH soil and relative humidity. Furthermore, we evaluatedsome factors that affect the measurement precision:response of SO2 uptake, repeatability, recovery factor, andvariability associated with the weight and the surfacecoverage on the collectors. As a result, it was shown thatthe measurement precision was primarily related to theratio of the SO2 deposition amount relative to the sulfurcontent of the original soil. This result was consistent withthe field observations. The laboratory and field resultsindicated an excellent agreement on the SO2 uptake inherentin the results from the soil surfaces in different regions.