Articles | Volume 17, issue 22
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-13767-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-13767-2017
Research article
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20 Nov 2017
Research article |  | 20 Nov 2017

Source apportionment of carbonaceous chemical species to fossil fuel combustion, biomass burning and biogenic emissions by a coupled radiocarbon–levoglucosan marker method

Imre Salma, Zoltán Németh, Tamás Weidinger, Willy Maenhaut, Magda Claeys, Mihály Molnár, István Major, Tibor Ajtai, Noémi Utry, and Zoltán Bozóki

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The major finding of this study lies in the new pragmatic coupled radiocarbon–LVG apportionment scheme, which allows assessment of the contribution of the major carbonaceous species from fossil fuel combustion, biomass burning and biogenic sources with a reasonable uncertainty, and without coupling of thermal or separation methods with an AMS for rather small amounts of samples.
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