Volatile organic compounds in Tijuana during the cal-mex 2010 campaign: Measurements and source apportionment

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 70, Issue , 2013, Pages 521-531

  Zheng, Jun ^a,b   Garzón, Jessica P ^b,c   Huertas, María E ^b,c   Zhang, Renyi ^a,b   Levy, Misti ^b   Ma, Yan ^a   Huertas, José I ^c   Jardón, Ricardo T ^d   Ruíz, Luis G ^d   Tan, Haobo ^e   Molina, Luisa T ^f  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND SCIENCES   (Mexico)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^e Institute of Tropical and Marine Meteorology CMA   (China)

^f MOLINA CENTER FOR ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditional probability function; Positive matrix factorization; PTR MS; Tijuana; Trace gases; VOCs

Indexed keywords

ACETONE; AIR QUALITY; DIESEL ENGINES; DIESEL LOCOMOTIVES; EXHAUST GASES; FACTORIZATION; GASES; GASOLINE; KETONES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SULFUR DIOXIDE; VEHICLES; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; WIND;

CONDITIONAL PROBABILITY FUNCTION; POSITIVE MATRIX FACTORIZATION; PTR-MS; TIJUANA; TRACE-GASES;

MATRIX ALGEBRA;

2 BUTANONE; ACETALDEHYDE; ACETONE; AROMATIC COMPOUND; BENZENE; GASOLINE; HYDRONIUM ION; ISOPRENE; METHANOL; NITRIC OXIDE; SOLVENT; TOLUENE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

AIR MASS; AIR QUALITY; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ATMOSPHERIC PLUME; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BIOGENIC EMISSION; BORDER REGION; DIESEL ENGINE; TRACE GAS; TRAFFIC EMISSION; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DIESEL ENGINE; DRY DEPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EXHAUST GAS; MASS SPECTROMETER; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEXICO; PLUME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON TRANSFER REACTION MASS SPECTROMETER; PROTON TRANSPORT; SOLAR RADIATION; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; VEGETATION; WIND;

BAJA CALIFORNIA [(STT) MEXICO]; CALIFORNIA; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; SAN DIEGO; TIJUANA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84877136114     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2012.11.030     Document Type: Article

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