Impact of species uncertainty perturbation on the solution stability of positive matrix factorization of atmospheric particulate matter data

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 42, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 6015-6021

  Christensen, William F ^a   Schauer, James J ^b  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; ERRORS; ESTIMATION; FACTORIZATION; GASOLINE; LIGHT MEASUREMENT; LIQUID FUELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; METALS; NEUROLOGY; NITRATES; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; ORGANIC CARBON; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PETROLEUM PRODUCTS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOLUTIONS; STANDARDS; SULFATE MINERALS; TURBULENT FLOW; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ATMOSPHERIC PARTICULATE MATTER; AVERAGE VALUES; ELEMENTAL CARBON; FINE PARTICULATE MATTER; LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTIONS; MEASUREMENT UNCERTAINTIES; POSITIVE MATRIX FACTORIZATION; RELATIVE ERROR; RELATIVE ERRORS; SMALL PERTURBATIONS; SOLUTION STABILITY; SOURCE APPORTIONMENT; SOURCE CONTRIBUTIONS; STANDARD DEVIATION; STATISTICAL MEASURES;

ERROR ANALYSIS;

CARBON; GASOLINE; ION; METAL; NITRATE; ORGANIC CARBON; SULFATE;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ERROR ANALYSIS; EXHAUST EMISSION; NITRATE; ORGANIC CARBON; PARTICULATE MATTER; PERTURBATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SULFATE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; ERROR; EXHAUST GAS; PARTICULATE MATTER; UNITED STATES;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ATMOSPHERE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INDUSTRY; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PARTICULATE MATTER; SOLUTIONS; SULFATES; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

MISSOURI; NORTH AMERICA; SAINT LOUIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 49749098521     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es800085t     Document Type: Article

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