Development of a new method to estimate the regional and local contributions to black carbon

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 45, Issue 40, 2011, Pages 7681-7687

  Brochu, Paul J ^b   Kioumourtzoglou, Marianthi Anna ^a   Coull, Brent A ^a   Hopke, Philip K ^c   Suh, Helen H ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c CLARKSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Black carbon; Local black carbon; PMF; Quantile regression; Regional black carbon; Source apportionment

Indexed keywords

EID: 83955164525     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2011.01.074     Document Type: Conference Paper

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