Source apportionment of carbonaceous fine particulate matter (PM2.5) in two contrasting cities across the Indo–Gangetic Plain

Atmospheric Pollution Research

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 398-405

  Villalobos, Ana M ^a   Amonov, Mansur O ^a   Shafer, Martin M ^a   Jai Devi, J ^b,c   Gupta, Tarun ^d   Tripathi, Sachi N ^d   Rana, Kushal S ^e   McKenzie, Michael ^c   Bergin, Mike H ^b,c   Schauer, James J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^d INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

^e Archaeological Survey of India (Science Branch)   (India)

Author keywords

CMB; Organic compounds; SOA; Source apportionment; WSOC

Indexed keywords

EID: 84927941329     PISSN: 13091042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5094/APR.2015.044     Document Type: Article

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