Fine and coarse PM composition and sources in rural and urban sites in Switzerland: Local or regional pollution?

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 427-428, Issue , 2012, Pages 191-202

  Minguillon M C ^a,b   Querol, X ^b   Baltensperger, U ^a   Prevot A S H ^a  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND WATER RESEARCH   (Spain)

Author keywords

Chemical composition; Metals; PM 10; PM 1; Source apportionment; Switzerland

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT PARTICULATE MATTER; AMMONIUM NITRATE; AMMONIUM SULFATE; ANTHROPOGENIC PROCESS; BIOAEROSOLS; BIOMASS-BURNING; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; COARSE FRACTIONS; EXHAUST EMISSION; FINE FRACTION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LOCAL SOURCE; MAJOR AND TRACE ELEMENTS; MINERAL MATTERS; ORGANIC AND ELEMENTAL CARBON; ORGANIC SOURCES; PM-COMPOSITION; POSITIVE MATRIX FACTORIZATION; RE-SUSPENSION; REGIONAL POLLUTION; ROAD DUSTS; ROAD TRAFFIC; SOURCE APPORTIONMENT; SWITZERLAND; TRACE ELEMENT CONCENTRATIONS; URBAN BACKGROUND; URBAN SITE;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; GLASS INDUSTRY; LEAD; MANGANESE; METALS; MINERALS; ORGANIC CARBON; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; RUBIDIUM; STRONTIUM; TIN;

CESIUM;

AMMONIA; AMMONIUM NITRATE; AMMONIUM SULFATE; ANTIMONY; ARSENIC; BISMUTH; CADMIUM; CARBON; CESIUM; COPPER; IRON; LANTHANUM; LEAD; LITHIUM; MANGANESE; MINERAL; NEODYMIUM; NICKEL; NITRATE; ORGANIC CARBON; ORGANIC MATTER; RUBIDIUM; STRONTIUM; SULFATE; THALLIUM; TITANIUM; VANADIUM; ZINC;

AMMONIUM NITRATE; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); METAL; NITRATE; ORGANIC CARBON; ORGANIC MATTER; PARTICULATE MATTER; RURAL AREA; TRACE ELEMENT; URBAN AREA;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUST; EXHAUST GAS; PARTICLE RESUSPENSION; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; SEASONAL VARIATION; SECONDARY ORGANIC AEROSOL; SUMMER; SWITZERLAND; TRAFFIC; URBAN AREA; WINTER;

AIR POLLUTANTS; CITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INDUSTRY; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; SEASONS; SWITZERLAND; TRACE ELEMENTS; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

PAYERNE; SWITZERLAND; VAUD; ZURICH [SWITZERLAND];

EID: 84861199744     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.04.030     Document Type: Article

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