Chemical composition of PM2.5 at an urban site of Chengdu in southwestern China

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1070-1084

  Tao, Jun ^a   Cheng, Tiantao ^b   Zhang, Renjian ^c   Cao, Junji ^d   Zhu, Lihua ^a   Wang, Qiyuan ^d   Luo, Lei ^e   Zhang, Leiming ^c,f  

^a SOUTH CHINA INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^d Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^e NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

^f ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

carbonaceous matters; enrichment factor; mass closure; source apportionment; trace elements; water soluble ions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879222600     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-012-2168-7     Document Type: Article

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