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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-9629-2016
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Research article
| 
02 Aug 2016
Research article |
| 02 Aug 2016
Variation in global chemical composition of PM2.5: emerging results from SPARTAN
Graydon Snider
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Physics and
Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Crystal L. Weagle
Department of Chemistry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova
Scotia, Canada
Kalaivani K. Murdymootoo
Department of Physics and
Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Amanda Ring
Department of Physics and
Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Yvonne Ritchie
Department of Physics and
Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Emily Stone
Department of Physics and
Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Ainsley Walsh
Department of Physics and
Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Clement Akoshile
Department of Physics, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria
Nguyen Xuan Anh
Institute of Geophysics, Vietnam Academy
of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam
Rajasekhar Balasubramanian
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Jeff Brook
Department of Public
Health Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Fatimah D. Qonitan
Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
ITB, JL. Ganesha No.10, Bandung, Indonesia
Jinlu Dong
Center for Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing,
China
Derek Griffith
Council for Scientific and Industrial
Research (CSIR), Pretoria, South Africa
Kebin He
Center for Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing,
China
Brent N. Holben
Earth Science Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center,
Greenbelt, MD, USA
Ralph Kahn
Earth Science Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center,
Greenbelt, MD, USA
Nofel Lagrosas
Manila Observatory, Ateneo de Manila University,
Quezon City, Philippines
Puji Lestari
Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
ITB, JL. Ganesha No.10, Bandung, Indonesia
Zongwei Ma
School of Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
Amit Misra
Center for Environmental Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of
Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India
Leslie K. Norford
Department of
Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA,
USA
Eduardo J. Quel
UNIDEF (CITEDEF-CONICET) Juan B. de la Salle
4397 – B1603ALO Villa Martelli, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Abdus Salam
Department of Chemistry, University of Dhaka, Dhaka,
Bangladesh
Bret Schichtel
Cooperative Institute for Research in
the Atmosphere, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Lior Segev
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Sachchida Tripathi
Center for Environmental Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of
Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India
Chien Wang
Center for
Global Change Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
Chao Yu
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory
University, 1518 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, GA, USA
Qiang Zhang
Center for Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing,
China
Yuxuan Zhang
Center for Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing,
China
Michael Brauer
School of
Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver,
British Columbia, Canada
Aaron Cohen
Health Effects Institute,
101 Federal Street Suite 500, Boston, MA, USA
Mark D. Gibson
Department of Process Engineering and Applied Science,
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory
University, 1518 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, GA, USA
J. Vanderlei Martins
Department of Physics and Joint Center for Earth Systems
Technology, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MA, USA
Yinon Rudich
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Department of Physics and
Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Department of Chemistry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova
Scotia, Canada
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
Cambridge, MA, USA
Data sets
SPARTAN PM2.5 G. Snider, C. L. Weagle, K. K. Murdymootoo, A. Ring, Y. Ritchie, E. Stone, A. Walsh, C. Akoshile, N. X. Anh, R. Balasubramanian, J. Brook, F. D. Qonitan, J. Dong, D. Griffith, K. He, B. N. Holben, R. Kahn, N. Lagrosas, P. Lestari, Z. Ma, A. Misra, L. K. Norford, E. J. Quel, A. Salam, B. Schichtel, L. Segev, S. N. Tripathi, C. Wang, C. Yu, Q. Zhang, Y. Zhang, M. Brauer, A. Cohen, M. D. Gibson, Y. Liu, J. V. Martins, Y. Rudich, and R. V. Martin http://spartan-network.org
U.S. Department of State Air Quality Monitoring Program (Beijing) PM2.5 U.S. Department of State http://www.stateair.net/web/mission/1/
Short summary
We examine the chemical composition of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) collected on filters at traditionally undersampled, globally dispersed urban locations. Several PM2.5 chemical components (e.g. ammonium sulfate, ammonium nitrate, and black carbon) vary by more than an order of magnitude between sites while aerosol hygroscopicity varies by a factor of 2. Enhanced anthropogenic dust fractions in large urban areas are apparent from high Zn : Al ratios.
We examine the chemical composition of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) collected on filters at...
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