Critical review of black carbon and elemental carbon source apportionment in Europe and the United States

NL Briggs, CM Long - Atmospheric Environment, 2016 - Elsevier
… European and US black carbon source apportionment studies. … Black carbon source
apportionment methods used in studies … of common black carbon source apportionment methods. …

Source apportionment of black carbon during winter in Beijing

Y Liu, C Yan, M Zheng - Science of the Total Environment, 2018 - Elsevier
Source apportionment results showed that the average contribution of liquid fuel source (eg,
vehicle emission) to BC was around 50% in clean days. While during the pollution episodes…

[HTML][HTML] Characteristics and source apportionment of black carbon in the Helsinki metropolitan area, Finland

A Helin, JV Niemi, A Virkkula, L Pirjola, K Teinilä… - Atmospheric …, 2018 - Elsevier
Black carbon is emitted from the incomplete combustion of carbonaceous fuels and will
detrimentally affect air quality, climate and human health. In this study, equivalent black carbon (…

Sources of black carbon at residential and traffic environments obtained by two source apportionment methods

S Saarikoski, JV Niemi, M Aurela… - Atmospheric …, 2021 - acp.copernicus.org
… This study investigated the sources of black carbon (BC) at two … The sources of BC were
explored by using positive matrix factorization (PMF) for the organic and refractory black carbon (…

Characteristics and source apportionment of black carbon aerosols over an urban site

TA Rajesh, S Ramachandran - Environmental Science and Pollution …, 2017 - Springer
… Aethalometer based source apportionment model using the measured aerosol absorption …
to apportion the contribution of fossil fuel and wood burning sources to the total black carbon (…

Evaluation of equivalent black carbon source apportionment using observations from Switzerland between 2008 and 2018

SK Grange, H Lötscher, A Fischer… - Atmospheric …, 2020 - amt.copernicus.org
… UV and IR α values are also required for the source apportionment and … 1.3 Black carbon
nomenclature note … collocated elemental carbon (EC) observations as equivalent black carbon (…

Multiple-year black carbon measurements and source apportionment using Delta-C in Rochester, New York

Y Wang, PK Hopke, OV Rattigan… - Journal of the Air & …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
… It was used as an input variable in source apportionment models for the first time in this …
The result showed the annual average PM 2.5 concentrations apportioned to diesel emissions in …

Black carbon over an urban atmosphere in northern peninsular Southeast Asia: Characteristics, source apportionment, and associated health risks

SK Pani, SH Wang, NH Lin, S Chantara, CT Lee… - Environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
sources of BC in the environment (Bond et al., 2013; Petzold et al., 2013). Source apportionment
of BC … Commonly-used methods for source apportionment of BC include positive matrix …

[HTML][HTML] The variability of mass concentrations and source apportionment analysis of equivalent black carbon across urban Europe

M Savadkoohi, M Pandolfi, C Reche, JV Niemi… - Environment …, 2023 - Elsevier
… This study analyzed the variability of equivalent black carbon (eBC) mass concentrations
and their sources in urban Europe to provide insights into the use of eBC as an advanced air …

Source apportionment of black carbon in different seasons in the northern suburb of Nanjing, China

A Jing, B Zhu, H Wang, X Yu, J An, H Kang - Atmospheric Environment, 2019 - Elsevier
… In this study, black carbon (BC) was measured in the northern suburb of … Source apportionment
in Beijing based on the Aethalometer model showed that controlling solid fuel sources, …