Understanding aerosol composition in  a tropical inter-Andean valley impacted  by agro-industrial and urban emissions

Mateus-Fontecha, Lady; Vargas-Burbano, Angela; Jimenez, Rodrigo; Rojas, Nestor Y.; Rueda-Saa, German; van Pinxteren, Dominik; van Pinxteren, Manuela; Fomba, Khanneh Wadinga; Herrmann, Hartmut

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-8473-2022

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-8473-2022

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-8473-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 22, issue 13

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04 Jul 2022

Research article |

| 04 Jul 2022

Understanding aerosol composition in a tropical inter-Andean valley impacted by agro-industrial and urban emissions

Lady Mateus-Fontecha, Angela Vargas-Burbano, Rodrigo Jimenez, Nestor Y. Rojas, German Rueda-Saa, Dominik van Pinxteren, Manuela van Pinxteren, Khanneh Wadinga Fomba, and Hartmut Herrmann

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Chemical composition of PM2.5 in Cauca River valley Colombia, V1 L. Mateus, A. Vargas, and R. Jimenez https://doi.org/10.17632/jryhypdhy3.1

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This study reports the chemical composition of regionally representative PM_2.5 in an area densely populated and substantially industrialized, located in the inter-Andean valley, with the highest sugarcane yield in the world and where sugarcane is burned and harvested year round. We found that sugarcane burning is not portrayed as a distinguishable sample composition component. Instead, the composition analysis revealed multiple associations among sugarcane burning components and other sources.