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ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH
Volume 204, Issue -, Pages 67-77Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2018.01.011
Keywords
Potential Source Contribution Function; Aerosol size distribution; Biomass burning; Long-range transport; Saharan dust
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- NASA/HQ
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In this paper, we combined a Potential Source Contribution Function (PSCF) analysis of daily chemical aerosol composition data with hourly aerosol size distributions with the aim to disentangle the major source areas during a complex and fast modulating advection event impacting on Central Italy in 2013. Chemical data include an ample set of metals obtained by Proton Induced X-ray Emission (PIXE), main soluble ions from ionic chromatography and elemental and organic carbon (EC, OC) obtained by thermo-optical measurements. Size distributions have been recorded with an optical particle counter for eight calibrated size classes in the 0.27-10 mu m range. We demonstrated the usefulness of the approach by the positive identification of two very different source areas impacting during the transport event. In particular, biomass burning from Eastern Europe and desert dust from Sahara sources have been discriminated based on both chemistry and size distribution time evolution. Hourly BT provided the best results in comparison to 6 h or 24 h based calculations.
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