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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-8273-2021
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-8273-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Research article
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28 May 2021
Research article |
| 28 May 2021
| 28 May 2021
Source apportionment of carbonaceous aerosols in Beijing with radiocarbon and organic tracers: insight into the differences between urban and rural sites
Siqi Hou
School of Geography Earth and Environmental Science, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
Di Liu
School of Geography Earth and Environmental Science, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
now at: Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100029, China
Jingsha Xu
School of Geography Earth and Environmental Science, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
Tuan V. Vu
School of Geography Earth and Environmental Science, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
now at: School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
Xuefang Wu
School of Earth Sciences and Resources, China University of Geosciences, Xueyuan Road 29, Beijing, 100083, China
Deepchandra Srivastava
School of Geography Earth and Environmental Science, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
Pingqing Fu
Institute of Surface-Earth System Science, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China
Linjie Li
State Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Physics and Atmospheric Chemistry Institute of Atmospheric, Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100029, China
now at: Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg 41296, Sweden
State Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Physics and Atmospheric Chemistry Institute of Atmospheric, Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100029, China
Athanasia Vlachou
Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen PSI, 5232, Switzerland
Vaios Moschos
Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen PSI, 5232, Switzerland
Gary Salazar
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry & Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Bern, 3012, Switzerland
Sönke Szidat
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry & Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Bern, 3012, Switzerland
André S. H. Prévôt
Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen PSI, 5232, Switzerland
School of Geography Earth and Environmental Science, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
also at: Department of Environmental Sciences/Centre of Excellence in Environmental Studies, King Abdulaziz University, P.O. Box 80203, Jeddah, 21589, Saudi Arabia
School of Geography Earth and Environmental Science, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
Data sets
Research data supporting "Source Apportionment of Carbonaceous Aerosols in Beijing with Radiocarbon and Organic Tracers: Insight into the Differences between Urban and Rural Sites" Roy M. Harrison, Siqi Hou, and Jingsha Xu https://doi.org/10.25500/edata.bham.00000572
Short summary
This study provides a newly developed method which combines radiocarbon (14C) with organic tracers to enable source apportionment of primary and secondary fossil vs. non-fossil sources of carbonaceous aerosols at an urban and a rural site of Beijing. The source apportionment results were compared with those by chemical mass balance and AMS/ACSM-PMF methods. Correlations of WINSOC and WSOC with different sources of OC were also performed to elucidate the formation mechanisms of SOC.
This study provides a newly developed method which combines radiocarbon (14C) with organic...
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