Source apportionment of ambient PM2.5 in two locations in central Tehran using the Positive Matrix Factorization (PMF) model

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 628-629, Issue , 2018, Pages 672-686

  Taghvaee, Sina ^a   Sowlat, Mohammad H ^a   Mousavi, Amirhosein ^a   Hassanvand, Mohammad Sadegh ^b   Yunesian, Masud ^b   Naddafi, Kazem ^b   Sioutas, Constantinos ^a  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

PM2.5; PMF; Source apportionment; Tehran

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; AIR QUALITY; CARBON; DUST; FACTORIZATION; INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS; METEOROLOGY; ORGANIC CARBON; ROADS AND STREETS; TRACE ELEMENTS;

ADVERSE HEALTH EFFECTS; ELEMENTAL AND ORGANIC CARBONS; IDENTIFICATION AND INTERPRETATION; PM2.5; POSITIVE MATRIX FACTORIZATION MODELS; SOURCE APPORTIONMENT; TEHRAN; TRAFFIC-RELATED EMISSIONS;

MATRIX ALGEBRA;

ALUMINUM; AMINE; BARIUM; CADMIUM; CALCIUM; CHROMIUM; COPPER; IRON; LITHIUM; MAGNESIUM; MANGANESE; NICKEL; NITRIC OXIDE; SELENIUM; SILICON; SODIUM; STRONTIUM; SULFATE; TIN; TITANIUM; ZINC;

AEROSOL; AIR QUALITY; AMBIENT AIR; ELEMENTAL CARBON; NUMERICAL MODEL; ORGANIC CARBON; PARTICULATE MATTER; SAMPLING; SOURCE APPORTIONMENT; TRAFFIC EMISSION;

AIR QUALITY; AMBIENT AIR; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH HAZARD; IRAN; PARTICULATE MATTER; POSITIVE MATRIX FACTORIZATION MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

IRAN; TEHRAN [IRAN];

EID: 85042227659     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.02.096     Document Type: Article

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