Composition and variability of gaseous organic pollution in the port megacity of Istanbul: source attribution, emission ratios, and inventory evaluation

Thera, Baye T. P.; Dominutti, Pamela; Öztürk, Fatma; Salameh, Thérèse; Sauvage, Stéphane; Afif, Charbel; Çetin, Banu; Gaimoz, Cécile; Keleş, Melek; Evan, Stéphanie; Borbon, Agnès

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-15131-2019

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13 Dec 2019

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| 13 Dec 2019

Composition and variability of gaseous organic pollution in the port megacity of Istanbul: source attribution, emission ratios, and inventory evaluation

Baye T. P. Thera, Pamela Dominutti, Fatma Öztürk, Thérèse Salameh, Stéphane Sauvage, Charbel Afif, Banu Çetin, Cécile Gaimoz, Melek Keleş, Stéphanie Evan, and Agnès Borbon

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A large set of volatile organic compound observations was collected for the first time in Istanbul in September 2014. A source–receptor approach has been carried out to apportion emission sources, estimate anthropogenic emissions, and evaluate emission inventories. Unexpectedly, transport was not the most dominant source in this study. Our work stresses the need to better represent VOC emissions in the eastern Mediterranean region with an effort on non-traffic sources and oxygenated VOCs.