Source apportionment of organic compounds in Berlin using positive matrix factorization - Assessing the impact of biogenic aerosol and biomass burning on urban particulate matter

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 435-436, Issue , 2012, Pages 392-401

  Wagener, Sandra ^a,b   Langner, Marcel ^a   Hansen, Ute ^a   Moriske, Heinz Jörn ^b   Endlicher, Wilfried R ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UMWELTBUNDESAMT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Allergy; Biogenic aerosol; Biomass burning; Organic aerosol; Source apportionment; Urban aerosol

Indexed keywords

BERLIN , GERMANY; BIOGENIC EMISSION; BIOMASS-BURNING; CARDIO-VASCULAR DISEASE; DATA FITS; DENSELY POPULATED REGIONS; ELEMENTAL CARBON; FUNGAL SPORES; MEAN CONCENTRATIONS; ORGANIC AEROSOL; ORGANIC FRACTIONS; PARTICULATE MATTER; POSITIVE MATRIX FACTORIZATION; REGIONAL DISTRIBUTION; SECONDARY ORGANIC AEROSOLS; SECONDARY ORGANIC CARBON; SOURCE APPORTIONMENT; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; TRAFFIC EMISSIONS; URBAN AEROSOLS;

ALLERGIES; BIOMASS; ORGANIC CARBON; OZONE; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER);

AEROSOLS;

ISOPRENE; ORGANIC CARBON; PINENE;

AEROSOL; BIOMASS; BIOMASS BURNING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CORRELATION; ISOPRENE; MATRIX; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PARTICULATE MATTER; TRAFFIC EMISSION;

AEROSOL; AIR QUALITY; AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BIOGENIC AEROSOL; BIOMASS; BIOMASS BURNING; COMBUSTION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; COOKING; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EXHAUST GAS; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GERMANY; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTION AND POLLUTION RELATED PHENOMENA; POSITIVE MATRIX FACTORIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SECONDARY ORGANIC AEROSOL; SOURCE APPORTIONMENT; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; URBAN AREA;

AEROSOLS; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; BERLIN; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FIRES; HUMANS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PARTICULATE MATTER;

BERLIN; GERMANY;

EID: 84864520078     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.07.039     Document Type: Article

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