The use of polar organic compounds to estimate the contribution of domestic solid fuel combustion and biogenic sources to ambient levels of organic carbon and PM2.5 in Cork Harbour, Ireland

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 409, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2143-2155

  Kourtchev, Ivan ^a   Hellebust, Stig ^a   Bell, Jennifer M ^a   O'Connor, Ian P ^a   Healy, Robert M ^a   Allanic, Arnaud ^a   Healy, David ^a   Wenger, John C ^a   Sodeau, John R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Gas chromatography mass spectrometry; Isoprene; Levoglucosan; Polar organic marker compounds; Principal component analysis multiple linear regression; Secondary organic aerosol

Indexed keywords

GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY/MASS SPECTROMETRY; ISOPRENE; LEVOGLUCOSAN; POLAR ORGANIC MARKER COMPOUNDS; SECONDARY ORGANIC AEROSOL;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; BITUMINOUS COAL; CHROMATOGRAPHY; COAL COMBUSTION; ESTIMATION; FUNGI; LINEAR REGRESSION; ORGANIC CARBON; SPECTROMETRY; WOOD; WOOD FUELS;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

BETA PINENE; BITUMINOUS COAL; CELLULOSE; COAL; ISOPRENE; LEVOGLUCOSAN; LIMONENE; ORGANIC CARBON; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PINENE; POLAR ORGANIC COMPOUND; SMOKELESS COAL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AEROSOL; BIOGENIC EMISSION; COMBUSTION; FUEL; ORGANIC CARBON; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; COMBUSTION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGUS SPORE; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; IRELAND; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SECONDARY ORGANIC AEROSOL; SUMMER; WOOD;

AIR MICROBIOLOGY; AIR POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERE; BICYCLO COMPOUNDS; BUTADIENES; CARBON; CYCLOHEXENES; ENERGY-GENERATING RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FIRES; FOSSIL FUELS; HEMITERPENES; IRELAND; MONOTERPENES; PARTICULATE MATTER; PENTANES; POWER PLANTS; SEASONS; TERPENES;

AEROSOLS; AIR QUALITY; CARBON; CHROMATOGRAPHY; COAL; ESTIMATION; FUNGI; ISOPRENE; LEVOGLUCOSAN; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROSCOPY; WOOD;

CORK HARBOUR; COUNTY CORK; IRELAND; MUNSTER [IRELAND];

EID: 79953295933     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.02.027     Document Type: Article

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