Elucidating real-world vehicle emission factors from mobile  measurements over a large metropolitan region: a focus on  isocyanic acid, hydrogen cyanide, and black carbon

Wren, Sumi N.; Liggio, John; Han, Yuemei; Hayden, Katherine; Lu, Gang; Mihele, Cris M.; Mittermeier, Richard L.; Stroud, Craig; Wentzell, Jeremy J. B.; Brook, Jeffrey R.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-16979-2018

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-16979-2018

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-16979-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 18, issue 23

Research article

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30 Nov 2018

Research article |

| 30 Nov 2018

Elucidating real-world vehicle emission factors from mobile measurements over a large metropolitan region: a focus on isocyanic acid, hydrogen cyanide, and black carbon

Sumi N. Wren, John Liggio, Yuemei Han, Katherine Hayden, Gang Lu, Cris M. Mihele, Richard L. Mittermeier, Craig Stroud, Jeremy J. B. Wentzell, and Jeffrey R. Brook

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-16979-2018-supplement

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Pan Am 2016 Study Government of Canada https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/1260ee96-7acf-489e-826b-de96f0c19fcb

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We made measurements from a mobile laboratory across a large urban area and determined fleet-average vehicle emission factors (EFs) for a suite of traffic-related air pollutants. We present the first real-world EFs for isocyanic acid (HNCO) and hydrogen cyanide (HCN) and insight into their on-road variability. We find that vehicles may represent an important source of these air toxics at an urban scale. This work has implications for understanding population exposure to these species.