Diesel vehicle and urban burning contributions to black carbon concentrations and size distributions in Tijuana, Mexico, during the Cal-Mex 2010 campaign

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 88, Issue , 2014, Pages 341-352

  Takahama, S ^a,i   Russell, L M ^a   Shores, C A ^b   Marr, L C ^b   Zheng, J ^c,j   Levy, M ^c   Zhang, R ^c   Castillo, E ^d   Rodriguez Ventura, J G ^d   Quintana, P J E ^e   Subramanian, R ^f,k   Zavala, M ^g   Molina, L T ^g,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE BAJA CALIFORNIA   (Mexico)

^e SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Droplet Measurement Technologies Inc   (United States)

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

^h MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

ⁱ EPFL   (Switzerland)

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

^k CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

Black carbon; Border; California; Mexico; Soot

Indexed keywords

DIESEL LOCOMOTIVES; FLEET OPERATIONS; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); SOOT;

BLACK CARBON; BORDER; CALIFORNIA; COMPLEMENTARY TECHNIQUES; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; MASS MEDIAN DIAMETERS; ME-XICO; TANDEM DIFFERENTIAL MOBILITY ANALYZERS;

URBAN GROWTH;

BLACK CARBON; DIESEL FUEL;

ABSORPTION; BURNING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DIESEL; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOOT; SPECTROMETRY; TRAFFIC EMISSION; TRAJECTORY; URBAN POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; BURN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIESEL ENGINE; EXHAUST GAS; HUMAN; INCANDESCENCE; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MEXICO; MOTOR VEHICLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOOT; URBAN AREA;

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

EID: 84897086929     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2013.09.057     Document Type: Article

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