Improved source apportionment of organic aerosols in complex urban air pollution using the multilinear engine (ME-2)

Zhu, Qiao; Huang, Xiao-Feng; Cao, Li-Ming; Wei, Lin-Tong; Zhang, Bin; He, Ling-Yan; Elser, Miriam; Canonaco, Francesco; Slowik, Jay G.; Bozzetti, Carlo; El-Haddad, Imad; Prévôt, André S. H.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-1049-2018

Articles | Volume 11, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-1049-2018

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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-1049-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 11, issue 2

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23 Feb 2018

Research article |

| 23 Feb 2018

Improved source apportionment of organic aerosols in complex urban air pollution using the multilinear engine (ME-2)

Qiao Zhu, Xiao-Feng Huang, Li-Ming Cao, Lin-Tong Wei, Bin Zhang, Ling-Yan He, Miriam Elser, Francesco Canonaco, Jay G. Slowik, Carlo Bozzetti, Imad El-Haddad, and André S. H. Prévôt

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Short summary

Organic aerosol constitutes one of the major components of atmospheric particulate matter globally and is emitted from various sources. Therefore, identifying and quantifying the sources of organic aerosol accurately is a key task in the field. In this study, we applied a rather novel procedure for an improved source apportionment method (ME-2) to resolve the less meaningful or mixed factors problems for organic aerosol using the traditional method (PMF).