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16. Critical Load Assessments for Sulphur and Nitrogen for Soils and Surface Waters in China

Authors : Lei Duan, Yu Zhao, Jiming Hao

Published in: Critical Loads and Dynamic Risk Assessments

Publisher: Springer Netherlands

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Abstract

As a widely accepted scientific basis for guiding emission abatement strategies, the critical load concept was applied in China, with the prospect of a wider application in policy-making in the future. The aim of this chapter is to give an overview of critical load assessments for China. It includes a regional-scale assessment for soils, based on an extended Steady-State Mass Balance (SSMB) method, and a site-scale assessment for some surface waters in southern and north-eastern China, based on the MAGIC model. The soil critical load maps were derived based on thorough investigations of weathering rates of soils, uptake rates of vegetations, and depositions of base cations. Combining the emission inventory, chemistry transport model, and critical loads, the impacts of China’s emission control policy on soil acidification were evaluated, based on estimated exceedances of critical loads. The increasing emissions of atmospheric nitrogen and the decreasing emissions of particulate matter were estimated to largely counteract the benefits of SO₂ emission reductions in the near future. The results implied that a “multi-pollutant control strategy”, combing measures for S, N and PM reduction, is the way forward for future Chinese acidification mitigation.

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Title: Critical Load Assessments for Sulphur and Nitrogen for Soils and Surface Waters in China
Authors: Lei Duan
Yu Zhao
Jiming Hao
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Book: Critical Loads and Dynamic Risk Assessments
Print ISBN: 978-94-017-9507-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-94-017-9508-1

Copyright Year: 2015
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9508-1_16