We examined the annual budget and source-receptor relationships for sulfur in East Asia using a regional chemical transport model (HYPACT) coupled with the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (RAMS). Model results are compared with the annual observation data, which are the daily concentrations of particulate SO
42- at Osaka and the annual SO
42- deposition measured by several organizations in Japanese Islands. HYPACT can reproduce the day-to-day variations of SO
42- concentration and the annual amount of SO
42- wet deposition. The annual spatial distributions of the concentration and deposition for SO
2 and SO
42- were estimated in 1995. The general features of distribution for SO
2 concentrations are similar to those for SO
42-. Both SO
2 and SO
42- concentrations are highest in the eastern part of China and is moderately high over the East China Sea and the western part of Japan. In contrast, the sulfur deposition distribution is completely different from the concentration distributions, because the wet deposition is strongly influenced by rainfall amount. Annual sulfur deposition in Japan is 49% from China, 21% from Japan, 13% from volcano and 12% from North and South Korea.
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