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ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
Volume 222, Issue -, Pages 567-582Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2016.11.012
Keywords
Non-refractory submicron particles (NR-PM1); Mass concentration; Organic aerosol (OA); AMS; Lanzhou
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41275141]
- 973 Program and Major Scientific Research Projects [2014CB441303]
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An Aerodyne quadrupole aerosol mass spectrometry (Q-AMS) was utilized to measure the size-resolved chemical composition of non-refractory submicron particles (NR-PM1) from October 27 to December 3, 2014 at an urban site in Lanzhou, northwest China. The average NR-PM1 mass concentration was 37.3 mu g m(-3) (ranging from 2.9 to 128.2 mu g m(-3)) under an AMS collection efficiency of unity and was composed of organics (48.4%), sulfate (17.8%), nitrate (14.6%), ammonium (13.7%), and chloride (5.7%). Positive matrix factorization (PMF) with the multi-linear engine (ME-2) solver identified six organic aerosol (OA) factors, including hydrocarbon-like OA (HOA), coal combustion OA (CCOA), cooking-related OA (COA), biomass burning OA (BBOA) and two oxygenated OA (OOA1 and OOA2), which accounted for 8.5%, 20.2%, 18.6%, 12.4%, 17.8% and 22.5% of the total organics mass on average, respectively. Primary emissions were the major sources of fine particulate matter (PM) and played an important role in causing high chemically resolved PM pollution during wintertime in Lanzhou. Back trajectory analysis indicated that the long-range regional transport air mass from the westerly was the key factor that led to severe submicron aerosol pollution during wintertime in Lanzhou. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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