Articles | Volume 15, issue 20
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-6051-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-6051-2022
Research article
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21 Oct 2022
Research article |  | 21 Oct 2022

Source apportionment resolved by time of day for improved deconvolution of primary source contributions to air pollution

Sahil Bhandari, Zainab Arub, Gazala Habib, Joshua S. Apte, and Lea Hildebrandt Ruiz

Data sets

Data published in "Source apportionment resolved by time of day for improved deconvolution of primary source contributions to air pollution" L. Hildebrandt Ruiz and S. Bhandari https://doi.org/10.18738/T8/VIRK5O

Short summary
We present a new method to conduct source apportionment resolved by time of day using the underlying approach of positive matrix factorization. We report results for four example time periods in two seasons (winter and monsoon 2017) in Delhi, India. Compared to the traditional approach, we extract a larger number of factors that represent the expected sources of primary organic aerosol. This method can capture diurnal time series patterns of sources at low computational cost.