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Research article
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23 Jan 2015
Research article |
| 23 Jan 2015
A comparison of four receptor models used to quantify the boreal wildfire smoke contribution to surface PM2.5 in Halifax, Nova Scotia during the BORTAS-B experiment
M. D. Gibson
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Process Engineering and Applied Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
J. Haelssig
Department of Process Engineering and Applied Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
J. R. Pierce
Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
M. Parrington
School of GeoSciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
European Centre For Medium Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, UK
J. E. Franklin
Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
J. T. Hopper
Department of Process Engineering and Applied Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Z. Li
Department of Process Engineering and Applied Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China
T. J. Ward
Centre for Environmental Health Sciences, University of Montana, MT, USA
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This paper presents a quantitative comparison of the four most commonly used receptor models, namely absolute principal component scores, pragmatic mass closure, chemical mass balance, and positive matrix factorization. The receptor models were used to predict the contributions of boreal wild-fire smoke and other sources to PM2.5 mass in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada during the BORTAS-B experiment. This paper also presents a new woodsmoke PM2.5 enrichment factor (levoglucosan x 52).
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