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Sources of Fine Particles in a Rural Midwestern U.S. Area

Sources of Fine Particles in a Rural Midwestern U.S. Area

Eugene Kim, Philip K Hopke, Donna M Kenski, Michael Koerber

Environ Sci Technol. 2005 Jul 1;39(13):4953-60.

PMID: 16053096

Abstract:

Ambient PM2.5 (particulate matter < or = 2.5 microm in aerodynamic diameter) samples collected at a rural monitoring site in Bondville, IL on every third day using Interagency Monitoring of Protected Visual Environments (IMPROVE) sampler were analyzed through the application of the positive matrix factorization (PMF). The particulate carbon fractions were obtained from the thermal optical reflectance method that divides particulate carbon into four organic carbon, pyrolyzed organic carbon (OP), and three elemental carbon fractions. A total of 257 samples collected between March 2001 and May 2003 analyzed for 35 species were used and eight sources were identified: summer-high secondary sulfate aerosol (40%), secondary nitrate aerosol (32%), gasoline vehicle (9%), OP-high secondary sulfate aerosol (7%), selenium-high secondary sulfate aerosol (4%), airborne soil (4%), aged sea salt (2%), and diesel emissions (2%). The compositional profiles for gasoline vehicle and diesel emissions are similar to those estimated in other U.S. areas. Backward trajectories indicate that the highly elevated airborne soil impacts were likely caused by Asian and Saharan dust storms. Potential source contribution function analyses show the potential source areas and pathways of secondary sulfate aerosols, especially the regional influences of the biogenic as well as anthropogenic secondary aerosol.

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