Articles | Volume 21, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-8323-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-8323-2021
Research article
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31 May 2021
Research article |  | 31 May 2021

Increase in secondary organic aerosol in an urban environment

Marta Via, María Cruz Minguillón, Cristina Reche, Xavier Querol, and Andrés Alastuey

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Atmospheric pollutants have been measured in an urban environment by means of state-of-the-art techniques, allowing the origin and the sources of pollution to be identified. Recent years are shown to be increasingly dominated by non-directly emitted particulate matter. Knowledge about the sources of atmospheric pollutants is necessary to design effective mitigation policies.
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