PM10 Source Apportionment in Ahvaz, Iran, using positive matrix factorization

Clean - Soil, Air, Water

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1143-1151

  Sowlat, Mohammad Hossein ^a   Naddafi, Kazem ^a   Yunesian, Masud ^a   Jackson, Peter L ^b   Lotfi, Saeedeh ^c   Shahsavani, Abbas ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Elemental composition; Ionic components; PM10; Positive Matrix Factorization; Source apportionment

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; AIR SAMPLING; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; BURNING; COMBUSTION; FRACTIONATION; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; ION CHROMATOGRAPHY; IONIC COMPOSITION; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTANT SOURCE;

AHWAZ; IRAN; KHUZESTAN;

EID: 84889680204     PISSN: 18630650     EISSN: 18630669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clen.201200131     Document Type: Article

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