10th International Aerosol Conference
September 2 - September 7, 2018
America's Center Convention Complex
St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Source Apportionment


A European-wide Intercomparison for Source Apportionment with Receptor and Chemical Transport Models. CLAUDIO BELIS, Denise Pernigotti, Guido Pirovano, FAIRMODE WG3 Community, European Commission - Joint Research Centre

A Global Scale Source Apportionment Scheme for Particulate Matter using the GEOS-Chem Global Atmospheric Chemistry Model. CARMEN LAMANCUSA, Kristina Wagstrom, University of Connecticut

Advanced Receptor Models as a Tool to Improve the Knowledge of Aerosol Emission Sources at a Hot-Spot Pollution Site (Milan – Italy). ROBERTA VECCHI, Vera Bernardoni, Alessandro Bigi, Giulia Calzolai, Miriam Elser, Paola Fermo, Alice Forello, Franco Lucarelli, Dario Massabò, Silvia Nava, Andrea Piazzalunga, Rosaria Erika Pileci, Paolo Prati, Sara Valentini, Gianluigi Valli, University of Milan & INFN-Milan (Italy)

Aerosol Sources and Processes in Winter in Beijing: Insights from Aerosol Mass Spectrometry. YELE SUN, Zifa Wang, Pingqing Fu, Qingqing Wang, Wei Du, Weiqi Xu, Jian Zhao, Wei Zhou, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, CAS

Ambient PM2.5 Source Apportionment: a Case Study of Tehran. SINA TAGHVAEE, Mohammad Sowlat, Amirhosein Mousavi, Mohammad Sadegh Hassanvand, Masud Yunesian, Kazem Naddafi, Constantinos Sioutas, University of Southern California

An Improved Approach to Resolve Sources of Organic Aerosol by Combining Offline and Online Ambient Measurements. DEEPCHANDRA SRIVASTAVA, Olivier Favez, Jean-Eudes Petit, Yunjiang Zhang, Uwayemi Sofowote, Philip K. Hopke, Nicolas Bonnaire, Emilie Perraudin, Valerie Gros, Eric Villenave, Alexandre Albinet, INERIS

Analysis of Particulate Atmospheric Matter Samples Collected with High Time Resolution: Some Examples of Recent Applications. FRANCO LUCARELLI, Giulia Calzolai, Massimo Chiari, Silvia Nava, Roy M. Harrison, Zongbo Shi, Di Liu, Bill Bloss, Van Tuan Vu, University of Florence and INFN Florence, Italy

Application of Positive Matrix Factorisation to the Source Identification of Pcdd/Fs in Urban Air, South Korea. EUNHWA JANG, Taewuk Jeong, Nana Yoon, Seungryul Jeong, Busan Metropolitan Institute of Health and Environment

Assessing the PM2.5 Imbalance between a Far and Near-Road Location: High Temporal Frequency Source Apportionment and the Role of Black Carbon. UWAYEMI SOFOWOTE, Robert Healy, Yushan Su, Jerzy Debosz, Michael Noble, Anthony Munoz, Cheol H. Jeong, Jon M. Wang, Nathan Hilker, Greg J. Evans, Philip K. Hopke, EMRB, Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change

Assessment of Residential Wood Combustion Influences on Air Quality in a Suburban Area From Eastern Europe. LUMINITA MARMUREANU, Cristina Marin, Alexandru Dandocsi, Simona Andrei, National Institute of R&D for Optoelecttronics

Carbonaceous Organic Aerosol Composition and Sources in the Baltic. ATHANASIA VLACHOU, A. Tobler, Houssni Lamkaddam, Carlo Bozzetti, Kaspar Rudolf Dällenbach, Gary Salazar, Soenke Szidat, Urs Baltensperger, Imad El Haddad, Andre S.H. Prévôt, Paul Scherrer Institute

Chemical Characterization and Source Contribution to PM2.5 Organic Fraction in Neighboring Towns of Bogota, Colombia. Felipe Villamil, Irene Rosas, James Schauer, NESTOR ROJAS, Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Chemical Characterization of Secondary Organic Aerosol (SOA) in a Transitional Season of Biogenic VOC Emission. YUNLE CHEN, Theodora Nah, David Tanner, Masayuki Takeuchi, Hongyu Guo, Amy P. Sullivan, Lu Xu, Rodney J. Weber, Greg Huey, Nga Lee Ng, Georgia Institute of Technology

Chemical Properties of PM 2.5 and Their Potential Source in Urban Background of Delhi, India. MANOJ KUMAR, Fasiur Rahman, Divesh Bhatia, Gazala Habib, IIT Delhi

Comparison of Ambient Aerosol Sources at Rural and Suburban Background Sites in Central Europe. OTAKAR MAKEŠ, Petr Vodička, Jaroslav Schwarz, Vladimír Ždímal, Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals of the CAS, v.v.i

Comparison of PM2.5 Chemical Composition and Sources at a Rural Background Site in Central Europe between the Years 1993/1994/1995 and 2009/2010: Effect of Legislative Regulations and Economic Grow on the Air Quality. PETRA POKORNÁ, Jaroslav Schwarz, Radek Krejci, Erik Swietlicki, Vladimír Havránek, Vladimír Ždímal, Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals CAS

Comprehensive Analysis of PM2.5 in Toronto: Composition, Sources, and Health Effects. CHEOL H. JEONG, Alison Traub, Angela Huang, Jon M. Wang, Nathan Hilker, Anthony Munoz, Ewa Dabek-Zlotorzynska, Dennis Herod, Scott Weichenthal, Greg J. Evans, SOCAAR, University of Toronto

Contribution of Primary and Secondary Particles to Mode-Segregated Aerosol Particle Number Concentrations in Four European Cities. IOAR RIVAS, Cristina Reche, David Beddows, David Green, Leena Järvi, Christoph Hueglin, Hilkka Timonen, Gary W. Fuller, Jarkko Niemi, Markku Kulmala, Roy M. Harrison, Andrés Alastuey, Xavier Querol, Frank J. Kelly, King's College London

Emission Characteristics of PM2.5 and Trace Gases from Household Wood Burning in Guanzhong Plain, Northwest China. YONG ZHANG, Jie Tian, Junji Cao, Wenjie Wang, Haiyan Ni, Suixin Liu, Zhenxing Shen, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Estimation and Sources of Cloud Water SO4 and NO3 Aerosols from Rainwater over High Altitude Station. YANG LIAN, P.S.P. Rao, G. Pandithurai, IITM, Pune

Excitation Emission Matrix Fluorescence Spectroscopy for Aerosol Source Identification. JAY RUTHERFORD, Neal Dawson-Elli, Igor Novosselov, Edmund Seto, Jonathan Posner, University of Washington

Fingerprinting Pre-monsoon Fine Aerosol Sources over Central Indo-Gangetic Plain. MANISH KUMAR, V.K. Sarma, R.S. Singh, Tirthankar Banerjee, Banaras Hindu University

Going Deeper on the Characterization of the Biogenic SOA by Combining On-line and Off-line Approaches during F-BEACh 2014. LAURENT POULAIN, Anke Mutzel, Monique Teich, Nadja Triesch, Andreas Held, Stefanie Richters, Dominik van Pinxteren, Yoshiteru Iinuma, Martin Brüggemann, Alfred Wiedensohler, Hartmut Herrmann, Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research

Identification of the Chemically Distinct Groups of Atlantic Aerosol Particles from 53°N to 53°S. SHAN HUANG, Laurent Poulain, Wolfram Birmili, Zhijun Wu, Hartmut Herrmann, Alfred Wiedensohler, Jinan University

Impact of a Shrinking Saline Lake (Salton Sea) on Regional Dust Deposition and Composition. ALEXANDER FRIE, Alexis Garrison, Mia Maltz, Jon Botthoff, Steve Bates, Timothy Lyons, Emma Aronson, Roya Bahreini, University of California Riverside

Impact of Emissions from Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach on the Oxidative Potential of Ambient PM0.25 Measured across the Los Angeles County. AMIRHOSEIN MOUSAVI, Mohammad Sowlat, Farimah Shirmohammadi, Sina Hasheminassab, Andrea Polidori, Martin Shafer, James Schauer, Constantinos Sioutas, University of Southern California

Impact of Environmental Policies and the Economy on Changes in Criteria Air pollutants Concentrations and Particulate Matter Compositions in New York State during 2005-2016. Stefania Squizzato, Mauro Masiol, David Q. Rich, PHILIP K. HOPKE, University of Rochester, Rochester, 14642, NY, USA

Impacts of Hazardous Metals and PAHs in the Ambient Air from Local and Regional Sources and Exceeded Cancer Risks in Taipei city. CHIN-YU HSU, Shih-Min Wang, Tzu-Ting Yang, Jyh-Larng Chen, Hung-Che Chiang, Yuh-Shen Wu, Yu-Cheng Chen, National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan

Influence of Future Emission Reductions on Source Apportionment of Organic Aerosol in the Houston Region. BONYOUNG KOO, Alan Dunker, Greg Yarwood, Ramboll

Influence of Traffic Emissions on Chemical Composition of Particles in Helsinki, Finland. MINNA AURELA, Kimmo Teinilä, Sanna Saarikoski, Jarkko Niemi, Harri Portin, Pasi Aalto, Liisa Pirjola, Hilkka Timonen, Finnish Meteorological Institute

Investigation of Seasonal Sources of Secondary Organic Aerosol in Switzerland Using Extractive Electrospray Ionization Time-Of-Flight Mass Spectrometry (EESI-TOF). GIULIA STEFENELLI, Veronika Pospisilova, Felipe Lopez-Hilfiker, Kaspar Rudolf Dällenbach, Martin Rigler, Christoph Hueglin, Yandong Tong, Urs Baltensperger, Andre S.H. Prévôt, Jay G. Slowik, Paul Scherrer Institut

Long-term Characterization and Source Apportionment of Carbonaceous Aerosols over Five Sites in Northern India. DEEPIKA BHATTU, Jay G. Slowik, Francesco Canonaco, Imad EI Haddad, S.B. Tiwari, Purushottam Kumar, Shashi Tiwari, Rangu Venkata Satish, Neeraj Rastogi, Atul K. Srivastava, Deewan S. Bisht, Suresh Tiwari, Dilip Ganguly, S.N. Tripathi, Urs Baltensperger, Andre S.H. Prévôt, Paul Scherrer Institute

Long-Term Field Observations of Aerosol Chemical Composition in the Boreal Forest. LIINE HEIKKINEN, Mikko Äijälä, Matthieu Riva, Krista Luoma, Tuukka Petäjä, Douglas Worsnop, Mikael Ehn, University of Helsinki

Multi-Year Source Apportionment of Highly-Time Resolved Carbonaceous Aerosol in the Region of Paris, France. YUNJIANG ZHANG, Olivier Favez, Francesco Canonaco, Jean-Eudes Petit, Tanguy Amodeo, Francois Truong, Jean Sciare, Andre S.H. Prévôt, Valerie Gros, Alexandre Albinet, INERIS

Observational Evidence of Downdraft Clouds Contributing to Daytime Elevated Nitrate Concentration in an Urban Atmosphere. Jun Tao, Zhisheng Zhang, LEIMING ZHANG, Yunfei Wu, Junji Cao, Peng Cheng, Laiguo Chen, Renjian Zhang, South China Institute of Environmental Sciences

Particulate matter in the Northwest of the Iberian Peninsula: A one-year study. Fernanda Oduber, Carlos Blanco-Alegre, Ana Isabel Calvo, Amaya Castro, Roberto Fraile, Teresa Nunes, CÉLIA ALVES, University of Aveiro

Physicochemical Characteristics and Source Apportionment of PM2.5 in an Inland City of Baoji, China. ZHOU BIANHONG, Li Meijuan, Fang Ni, Zhang Zhangquan, Liu Suixin, Baoji University of Arts and Sciences

PM2.5 Source Apportionment Using a Hybrid Environmental Receptor Model. LUNG-WEN ANTONY CHEN, Junji Cao, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Positive Matrix Factorization of SEM Based Individual Particle Results from the Middle East: A Comparison of Data Sets from Kuwait Collected during Two Time Periods. Johann Engelbrecht, GARY CASUCCIO, Traci Lersch, RJ Lee Group, Inc.

Primary Sources and Secondary Formation of Organic Aerosols in Diadema, São Paulo, Brazil. DJACINTO MONTEIRO DOS SANTOS, Luciana Rizzo, Patrick Schlag, Samara Carbone, Paulo Artaxo, University of São Paulo

Real Time Source Quantification of Secondary Organic Aerosol in Zurich Using Extractive Electrospray Ionization Time-Of-Flight Mass Spectrometry (EESI-TOF). LU QI, Giulia Stefenelli, Veronika Pospisilova, Yandong Tong, Christoph Hueglin, Martin Rigler, Xinlei Ge, Mindong Chen, Urs Baltensperger, Andre S.H. Prévôt, Jay G. Slowik, Paul Scherrer Institute

Responses of Aerosol Mass Spectra to Temperature Related Tree Stress. KRISTINA PLAUSKAITE, Julija Pauraite, Steigvile Bycenkiene, Algirdas Augustaitis, Vitas Marozas, Gintautas Mozgeris, Vidmantas Ulevicius, SRI Center for Physical Sciences and Technology

Seasonal Variations in Source Apportionment of the Redox Activity of Urban Fine Particulate Matter in Athens, Greece. SINA TAGHVAEE, Mohammad Sowlat, Christopher Lovett, Konstantinos Eleftheriadis, Evangelia Diapouli, Manos Manousakas, Constantinos Sioutas, University of Southern California

Source Apportionment of Brown Carbon Absorption by Coupling Ultraviolet-Visible Spectroscopy with Aerosol Mass Spectrometry. VAIOS MOSCHOS, Nivedita Kumar, Kaspar Rudolf Dällenbach, Urs Baltensperger, Andre S.H. Prévôt, Imad El Haddad, Paul Scherrer Institute / ETH Zurich

Source Apportionment of High Resolution Aerosol Trace Elements in Beijing, China. P. RAI, Markus Furger, Jay G. Slowik, Francesco Canonaco, Rujin Huang, Junji Cao, Urs Baltensperger, Andre S.H. Prévôt, Paul Scherrer Institute

Source Apportionment of Organic Particulate Matter at the Phillips 66 Research Center in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. SHAOKAI GAO, Phillips 66 Research Center

Source Apportionment of PM2.5 Using Hourly Measurements of Elemental Tracers and Major Constituents in an Urban Environment: Investigation of Time Resolution Influence. QIONGQIONG WANG, Liping Qiao, Min Zhou, Shuhui Zhu, Stephen Griffith, Li Li, Jian Zhen Yu, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology

Source Apportionment, Wind Transport and Atmospheric Transformation of Carbonaceous Aerosol in the San Joaquin Valley, California. BENJAMIN DE FOY, Michael Olson, Alexandra Lai, Min-Suk Bae, Qingyang Liu, Matthew Skiles, James Schauer, St. Louis University

Sources and Transformations to Atmospheric Aerosols in Winter: A Carbon and Nitrogen Isotopic Study in Beijing. QIAN YU, Mo Xue, Di Wu, Lei Duan, Jingkun Jiang, Shuxiao Wang, Tsinghua University

Strontium and Lead Stable Isotopes as Tracers of PM2.5 in Northern India. RACHEL YORK-MARINI, Swati Sharma, Gazala Habib, Brian Majestic, University of Denver

Submicron Aerosol at a Receptor Site in New Delhi: Interpreting Sources and Their Origin. SAHIL BHANDARI, Shahzad Gani, Dongyu S. Wang, Kanan Patel, Sarah Seraj, Prashant Soni, Zainab Arub, Gazala Habib, Joshua Apte, Lea Hildebrandt Ruiz, University of Texas at Austin

Sulfuric Acid and Nanocluster Aerosol Measured in an Urban Street Canyon of Helsinki, Finland. MISKA OLIN, Riina Hietikko, Minna Aurela, Heino Kuuluvainen, Niina Kuittinen, Mia Isotalo, Hilkka Timonen, Jarkko Niemi, Topi Rönkkö, Miikka Dal Maso, Tampere University of Technology

Temporal Variability of Submicron Organic Aerosol PMF Factor Mass Spectra During the Houston Aerosol Characterization and Health Experiment. NANCY SANCHEZ, Henry Wallace, Benjamin Schulze, Rivkah Gardner-Frolick, James Flynn, Barry Lefer, Robert Griffin, Rice University

Use of Specific Primary and Secondary Organic Markers for PM Source Apportionment Based on Positive Matrix Factorization (PMF). Deepchandra Srivastava, Olivier Favez, Emilie Perraudin, Jean-Luc Besombes, Franco Lucarelli, Laurent Alleman, Grazia Maria Lanzafame, Sophie Tomaz, Jean-Luc Jaffrezo, Benjamin Golly, Nicolas Bonnaire, Valerie Gros, Eric Villenave, ALEXANDRE ALBINET, INERIS

Wintertime Study of Ambient Aerosols (PM1 and PM2.5): Insights to Source Characterization and Atmospheric Transformation. GYANESH KUMAR SINGH, Prashant Rajput, Pradhi Rajeev, Dharmendra Kumar Singh, Amit Kumar Singh, Debajyoti Paul, Tarun Gupta, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur