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SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
Volume 619, Issue -, Pages 1515-1529Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.11.092
Keywords
Source apportionment; Long-range transport; PMF; FLEXPART; PSCF; Danube macro-region
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- European Structural and Investment Funds - European Commission [VEKOP-2.3.2-16-2016-00011]
- European Structural and Investment Funds - Hungarian Government [VEKOP-2.3.2-16-2016-00011]
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The contribution of main PM pollution sources and their geographic origin in three urban sites of the Danube macro-region (Zagreb, Budapest and Sofia) were determined by combining receptor and Lagrangian models. The source contribution estimates were obtained with the Positive Matrix Factorization (PMF) receptor model and the results were further examined using local wind data and backward trajectories obtained with FLEXPART. Potential Source Contribution Function (PSCF) analysis was applied to identify the geographical source areas for the PM sources subject to long-range transport. Gas-to-particle transformation processes and primary emissions from biomass burning are the most important contributors to PM in the studied sites followed by re-suspension of soil (crustal material) and traffic. These four sources can be considered typical of the Danubemacro-region because they were identified in all the studied locations. Long-range transport was observed of: a) sulphate-enriched aged aerosols, deriving from SO2 emissions in combustion processes in the Balkans and Eastern Europe and b) dust from the Saharan and Karakum deserts. The study highlights that PM pollution in the studied urban areas of the Danube macro-region is the result of both local sources and long-range transport from both EU and no-EU areas. (C) 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.
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