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

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Siddhartha Mitra
Christopher L. Osburn
Andrew S. Wozniak
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[1] East Carolina University,Department of Geological Sciences
[2] North Carolina State University,Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences
[3] Old Dominion University,Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
[4] University of Delaware,School of Marine Science and Policy
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Aquatic Geochemistry | 2017年 / 23卷
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Gulf of Mexico; Rainwater OC; CDOM; EEMs;
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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 δ13C of these rainwater samples ranged from −26.7 to −24.2‰ 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.
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