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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
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Research article
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Research article |
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Understanding aerosol composition in a tropical inter-Andean valley impacted by agro-industrial and urban emissions
Lady Mateus-Fontecha
Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Air Quality Research Group, Universidad Nacional de Colombia – Bogotá, Bogotá, DC 111321, Colombia
Angela Vargas-Burbano
Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Air Quality Research Group, Universidad Nacional de Colombia – Bogotá, Bogotá, DC 111321, Colombia
Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Air Quality Research Group, Universidad Nacional de Colombia – Bogotá, Bogotá, DC 111321, Colombia
Nestor Y. Rojas
Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Air Quality Research Group, Universidad Nacional de Colombia – Bogotá, Bogotá, DC 111321, Colombia
German Rueda-Saa
Department of Engineering and Management, Environmental Prospective, Universidad Nacional de Colombia – Palmira, Research Group, Valle del Cauca, Palmira 763533, Colombia
Dominik van Pinxteren
Atmospheric Chemistry Department (ACD), Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS), Permoserstraße 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany
Manuela van Pinxteren
Atmospheric Chemistry Department (ACD), Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS), Permoserstraße 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany
Khanneh Wadinga Fomba
Atmospheric Chemistry Department (ACD), Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS), Permoserstraße 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany
Hartmut Herrmann
Atmospheric Chemistry Department (ACD), Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS), Permoserstraße 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany
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- A twin site study of size-resolved composition, source apportionment and health impacts of aerosol particles in Morocco N. Deabji et al. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2025.121273
- Chemical characteristics and spatiotemporal variation of marine fine particles for clustered channels of air masses transporting toward remote background sites in East Asia P. Yen et al. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2023.121870
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This study reports the chemical composition of regionally representative PM2.5 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.
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