Division of Environmental Health and Risk
Management, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of
Birmingham Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of
Urban Ambient Air Particulate Matter Pollution Prevention and Control,
College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin 300350, China
Mohammed S. Alam
Division of Environmental Health and Risk
Management, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of
Birmingham Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
Christopher Stark
Division of Environmental Health and Risk
Management, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of
Birmingham Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
Ruixin Xu
Division of Environmental Health and Risk
Management, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of
Birmingham Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
Division of Environmental Health and Risk
Management, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of
Birmingham Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of
Urban Ambient Air Particulate Matter Pollution Prevention and Control,
College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin 300350, China
Division of Environmental Health and Risk
Management, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of
Birmingham Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
Department of Environmental Sciences/Centre
of Excellence in Environmental Studies, King Abdulaziz University, P.O. Box
80203, Jeddah, 21589, Saudi Arabia
Organic matter comprises a substantial proportion of the mass of toxic airborne particles which cause poor health and premature death. In this paper, new measurements of three important groups of organic compounds are reported and are analysed to infer their sources and their contributions to airborne particle concentrations.
Organic matter comprises a substantial proportion of the mass of toxic airborne particles which...