First Results of the “Carbonaceous Aerosol in Rome and Environs (CARE)” Experiment: Beyond Current Standards for PM10

F Costabile, H Alas, M Aufderheide, P Avino, F Amato… - Atmosphere, 2017 - mdpi.com
In February 2017 the “Carbonaceous Aerosol in Rome and Environs (CARE)” experiment
was carried out in downtown Rome to address the following specific questions: what is the …

Characterization of metals in PM1 and PM10 and health risk evaluation at an urban site in the western Mediterranean

N Galindo, E Yubero, JF Nicolás, M Varea, J Crespo - Chemosphere, 2018 - Elsevier
PM 1 and PM 10 samples collected in the urban center of Elche during two years were
analyzed by Energy Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence in order to determine the …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-time and multi-size resolution receptor modeling to exploit jointly atmospheric aerosol data measured at different time resolutions and in multiple size …

F Crova, V Bernardoni, L Cadeo, S Canepari… - Atmospheric …, 2024 - Elsevier
In the recent decades, advanced instrumentation has been developed to measure the
atmospheric aerosol's physical-chemical properties with increased temporal detail and size …

[HTML][HTML] Towards a better understanding of fine PM sources: Online and offline datasets combination in a single PMF

M Via, J Yus-Díez, F Canonaco, JE Petit, P Hopke… - Environment …, 2023 - Elsevier
Source apportionment (SA) techniques allocate the measured ambient pollutants with their
potential source origin; thus, they are a powerful tool for designing air pollution mitigation …

[HTML][HTML] Source apportionment of ambient PM10 collected at three sites in an urban-industrial area with multi-time resolution factor analyses

D Mooibroek, UM Sofowote, PK Hopke - Science of The Total Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Chemical speciation data for PM 10, collected for annual trend analyses of health-relevant
species, at three receptor sites in a highly industrialized area (IJmond) in the Netherlands …

Sources, variability and parameterizations of intra-city factors obtained from dispersion-normalized multi-time resolution factor analyses of PM2. 5 in an urban …

UM Sofowote, RM Healy, Y Su, J Debosz… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Ambient fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) data of similar continuously monitored species at
two air monitoring sites with different characteristics within the City of Toronto were used to …

Source apportionment of ambient PM2. 5 in an industrialized city using dispersion-normalized, multi-time resolution factor analyses

UM Sofowote, D Mooibroek, RM Healy, J Debosz… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Ambient fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) data were collected in the lower City of Hamilton,
Ontario to apportion the sources of this pollutant over an 18-month period. Hamilton has …

Speciation of organic fractions does matter for aerosol source apportionment. Part 3: Combining off-line and on-line measurements

D Srivastava, O Favez, JE Petit, Y Zhang… - Science of The Total …, 2019 - Elsevier
The present study proposes an advanced methodology to refine the source apportionment
of organic aerosol (OA). This methodology is based on the combination of offline and online …

Study of atmospheric aerosols by IBA techniques: The LABEC experience

F Lucarelli, G Calzolai, M Chiari, S Nava… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2018 - Elsevier
At the 3 MV Tandetron accelerator of the LABEC laboratory of INFN (Florence, Italy) an
external beam facility is fully dedicated to PIXE-PIGE measurements of the elemental …

[HTML][HTML] Exploiting multi-wavelength aerosol absorption coefficients in a multi-time resolution source apportionment study to retrieve source-dependent absorption …

AC Forello, V Bernardoni, G Calzolai… - Atmospheric …, 2019 - acp.copernicus.org
In this paper, a new methodology coupling aerosol optical and chemical parameters in the
same source apportionment study is reported. In addition to results on source contributions …