Impact of primary and secondary organic sources on the oxidative potential of quasi-ultrafine particles (PM0.25) at three contrasting locations in the Los Angeles Basin

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 120, Issue , 2015, Pages 286-296

  Saffari, Arian ^a   Hasheminassab, Sina ^a   Wang, Dongbin ^a   Shafer, Martin M ^b   Schauer, James J ^b   Sioutas, Constantinos ^a  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

CMB; Oxidative potential; Particulate matter; Photochemical aging; Ultrafine

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; AMPHIBIOUS VEHICLES; AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; BEACHES; CARBON; CRASHWORTHINESS; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; LANDFORMS; LOCATION; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CMB; MULTIVARIATE REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OXIDATIVE POTENTIAL; PARTICULATE MATTER; SECONDARY ORGANIC AEROSOLS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATION; ULTRAFINE; WATER-SOLUBLE ORGANIC CARBON;

ORGANIC CARBON;

CHEMICAL COMPOUND; MOLECULAR MARKER; ORGANIC CARBON; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

AEROSOL; BEACH; EMISSION INVENTORY; OXIDATION; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTION MONITORING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; URBAN ATMOSPHERE; URBAN POLLUTION;

AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; MACROPHAGE; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASHORE; SECONDARY ORGANIC AEROSOL; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA;

CALIFORNIA; LONG BEACH [CALIFORNIA]; LOS ANGELES BASIN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84941286021     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2015.09.022     Document Type: Article

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