Identification of sources affecting fog formation using receptor modeling approaches and inventory estimates of sectoral emissions

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1288-1295

  Mehta, Bhavin ^a   Venkataraman, Chandra ^a   Bhushan, Mani ^a   Tripathi, Sachchida Nand ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

Biofuel combustion; Brick kilns; Kanpur (80 22 E, 26 26 N); Positive matrix factorization (PMF); Potential source contribution function (PSCF); Thermal power plants

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC FACTORS; AREA SOURCES; CHEMICAL DATA SETS; EMISSION INVENTORIES; EMISSION STRENGTHS; FOG EVENTS; FOG FORMATIONS; LOCAL SOURCES; MODELING APPROACHES; PARTICLE MASSES; POINT SOURCES; POSITIVE MATRIX FACTORIZATION (PMF); POTENTIAL SOURCE CONTRIBUTION FUNCTION (PSCF); REGIONAL SCALES; RELATIVE STANDARD DEVIATIONS; SEA SALTS; SOURCE REGIONS; THERMAL POWER PLANTS; TIME SERIES;

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; BIOFUELS; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOMASS; BRICK; BRICKMAKING; COAL TRANSPORTATION; COMBUSTION; FACTORIZATION; FOG; FUELS; FUNCTIONS; FURNACES; KILNS; LIGHT MEASUREMENT; POWER PLANTS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; SMOKE; SULFUR DIOXIDE; THERMOCHEMISTRY; THERMOELECTRIC POWER PLANTS; TURBULENT FLOW;

COAL COMBUSTION;

AEROSOL FORMATION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BIOFUEL; BIOMASS BURNING; DATA SET; EMISSION INVENTORY; FOG; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; POINT SOURCE POLLUTION; POWER PLANT; SEA SALT; THERMAL POWER; TIME SERIES;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; KANPUR; SOUTH ASIA; UTTAR PRADESH;

EID: 58249135852     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2008.11.041     Document Type: Article

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