Mei Zheng, Xiuying Zhao, Yuan Cheng, Caiqing Yan, Wenyan Shi, Xiaolu Zhang, Rodney J Weber, James J Schauer, Xinming Wang, Eric S Edgerton
PM(2.5), as one of the criteria pollutants regulated in the U.S. and other countries due to its adverse health impacts, contains more than hundreds of organic pollutants with different sources and formation mechanisms. Daytime and nighttime PM2.5 samples from the August Mini-Intensive Gas and Aerosol Campaign (AMIGAS) in the southeastern U.S. were collected during summer 2008 at one urban site and one rural site, and were analyzed for organic carbon (OC), elemental carbon (EC), water soluble organic carbon (WSOC), and various individual organic compounds including some important tracers for carbonaceous aerosol sources by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry...
January 15, 2014: Journal of Hazardous Materials