Journal
ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT
Volume 41, Issue 39, Pages 8898-8923Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2007.08.024
Keywords
source apportionment; CMB; organic tracer; radiocarbon; carbonaceous aerosols
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Sources of carbonaceous aerosols collected from three sites of Chattanooga, TN (CH), Muscle Shoals, AL (MS), and Look Rock, TN (LR) in the Tennessee Valley Region (TVR) were apportioned using both organic tracer-based chemical mass balance (CMB) modeling and radiocarbon ((14)C) measurement and the results were compared. Eight sources were resolved by CMB, among which wood combustion (averaging 0.92 mu g m(-3)) was the largest contributor to primary organic carbon (OC) concentrations, followed by gasoline exhaust (0.35 mu g m(-3)), and diesel exhaust (0.18 mu g m(-3)). The identified primary sources accounted for 43%, 71%, and 14% of measured OC at CH, MS, and LR, respectively. Contributions from the eight primary sources resolved by CMB could explain 107 +/- 10% of ambient elemental carbon (EC) concentrations, with diesel exhaust (66 +/- 32%) and wood combustion (37 +/- 33%) as the most important contributors. The fossil fractions in total carbon determined by (14)C measurements were in reasonably good agreement with that in primary (OC + EC) carbon apportioned by CMB in the MS winter samples. The comparison between the (14)C and CMB results revealed that contemporary sources dominated other OC in the TVR, especially in summertime (84% contemporary). (C) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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