Articles | Volume 19, issue 15
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-10405-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-10405-2019
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15 Aug 2019
Research article |  | 15 Aug 2019

High contributions of fossil sources to more volatile organic aerosol

Haiyan Ni, Ru-Jin Huang, Junji Cao, Wenting Dai, Jiamao Zhou, Haoyue Deng, Anita Aerts-Bijma, Harro A. J. Meijer, and Ulrike Dusek

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We apply radiocarbon source apportionment of more volatile organic carbon (mvOC) to winter aerosol samples from six Chinese cities. We find a consistently larger contribution of fossil sources to mvOC than to secondary or total organic carbon. Fossil mvOC concentrations are strongly correlated with primary fossil OC but not with secondary fossil OC. The variability in nonfossil mvOC seems to be related to both primary and secondary biomass burning sources.
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