Elemental composition and source identification of very fine aerosol particles in a European air pollution hot-spot

Atmospheric Pollution Research

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 671-679

  Pokorná, Petra ^a,b   Hovorka, Jan ^a   Hopke, Philip K ^b  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b CLARKSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Highly time resolved elemental composition; Positive matrix factorization; Rotating drum impactor; Synchrotron X ray fluorescence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84991585367     PISSN: 13091042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apr.2016.03.001     Document Type: Article

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