Source apportionment using radiocarbon and organic tracers for PM2.5 carbonaceous aerosols in Guangzhou, South China: Contrasting local- and regional-scale Haze events

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 20, 2014, Pages 12002-12011

  Liu, Junwen ^a,c   Li, Jun ^a   Zhang, Yanlin ^b   Liu, Di ^a   Ding, Ping ^a   Shen, Chengde ^a   Shen, Kaijun ^a,c   He, Quanfu ^a,c   Ding, Xiang ^a   Wang, Xinming ^a   Chen, Duohong ^a   Szidat, Sönke ^b   Zhang, Gan ^a  

^a GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON 14; ORGANIC CARBON; TRACER; AEROSOL; AIR POLLUTANT; CARBON; EXHAUST GAS; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PARTICULATE MATTER; SULFATE; WATER;

AEROSOL; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; EXHAUST EMISSION; HAZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTION CONTROL; RADIONUCLIDE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

AEROSOL; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CALCULATION; CHINA; COMBUSTION; FOSSIL; HAZE; HUMIDITY; PARTICULATE MATTER; SECONDARY ORGANIC AEROSOL; WINTER; AIR POLLUTANT; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EXHAUST GAS; PROCEDURES; SEASON; SOLUBILITY;

CHINA; GUANGDONG; GUANGZHOU;

AEROSOLS; AIR POLLUTANTS; BIOMASS; CARBON; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMIDITY; NITRATES; PARTICULATE MATTER; SEASONS; SOLUBILITY; SULFATES; VEHICLE EMISSIONS; WATER;

EID: 84908120276     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es503102w     Document Type: Article

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