Source apportionment and analysis on ambient and personal exposure samples with a combined receptor model and an adaptive blank estimation strategy

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 40, Issue 20, 2006, Pages 3788-3801

  Zhao, Weixiang ^a   Hopke, Philip K ^a   Norris, Gary ^b   Williams, Ron ^b   Paatero, Pentti ^c  

^a Clarkson University   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Blank estimation; Combined receptor model; Exposure analysis; Source apportionment

Indexed keywords

BLANK ESTIMATION; COMBINED RECEPTOR MODEL; EXPOSURE ANALYSIS; SOURCE APPORTIONMENT;

CARBON; COPPER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NITRATES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SOILS;

ELEMENTARY PARTICLES;

NITRITE; ORGANIC CARBON; SULFATE;

EMISSION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; ORGANIC CARBON; PARTICLE MOTION;

AIR ANALYSIS; AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; AIRBORNE PARTICLE; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; FILTER; MOTOR VEHICLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 33646828697     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2006.02.027     Document Type: Article

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