title: [Effect of dust deposition collection methods on collection efficiency].
abstract: There are lots of dust deposition collection methods on dust deposition, but there is no standard field observation method. At present, researchers have studied dust deposition using different methods in this issue, but due to the different observation method and collection efficiency, the research results are incomparable. The efficiency of the standard dust deposition gauge including dry, wet, net, net and glass ball and slowing speed methods was studied in the Tengger Desert. The amount of the dry method collected material was only about 5% to 62% of the wet method, the net method was only about 43% to 89% of the wet method, the net and glass ball method was only about 40% to 80% of the wet method. Wind speed obviously affected the dust deposition efficiency in all observation methods, the dust deposition efficiency decreased with increasing wind speed when the wind speed was smaller than 2.5 m.s-1, but the dust deposition efficiency had no clear trend with wind speed when the wind speed was larger than 2.5 m.s-1. The particle size of collected material by wet method was the smallest, followed by the slowing speed method, the net and glass ball method, the wet method and the dry method. There are relationships between the averaged wind speed, the averaged larger than 5 m.s-1 wind speed and the amount of dust deposition collected by the wet and the slowing speed methods, which can be expressed as exponential function. There are also linear relationships between the amount of collected material by the wet and dry, net, net and glass ball and slowing speed methods. The wet method is the best dust deposition collecting method, followed by the slow wind speed method. Therefore, in the arid and semi-arid regions, the slowing wind speed method can be used to replace the wet method to collect dust deposition.
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Desert and Desertification, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China. zhangzhsi@sina.com
authors.forename: Zheng-Cai
authors.initials: ZC
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Zhi-Bao
authors.initials: ZB
authors.lastname: Dong
mesh_terms: D000393:Air Pollutants / Q000032:analysis*; D004391:Dust / Q000032:analysis*; D004526:Efficiency; D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D000393:Air Pollutants; D004391:Dust