Source apportionment of particulate organic compounds in a rural area of Spain by positive matrix factorization

Atmospheric Pollution Research

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 492-505

  Pindado, Oscar ^a   Perez, Rosa M ^a  

^a CIEMAT   (Spain)

Author keywords

Atmospheric aerosol; Organic compounds; PMF; Source apportionment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870723600     PISSN: 13091042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5094/APR.2011.056     Document Type: Article

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