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Source apportionment of carbonaceous particulate matter during haze days in Shanghai based on the radiocarbon

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To estimate the sources of carbonaceous particulate matter, 14C and biomass-burning marker (levoglucosan) were measured in the form of organic carbon (OC) and elemental carbon (EC) in PM2.5 that was collected in five different functional districts of Shanghai during winter 2013. Spatial variations of the contemporary proportion among different districts were evident. The results of levoglucosan in Xujiahui (XH) and Chongming (CM) agreed well with those of 14C. The results indicate that environmental protection policies should vary for functional districts within the same city to account for their different sources of emissions.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos. 21601202 and 11475082. China Meteorological Administration under Grant No. xzqxj 201704.

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  1. School of Nuclear Science and Technology, University of South China, Hengyang, 421001, China

    Nannan Wei & Detao Xiao

  2. Department of Nuclear Reactor Engineering, Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 201800, China

    Nannan Wei, Guanghua Wang, Ke Deng & Wei Liu

  3. Meteorological Service Center of Tibet Autonomous Region Meteorological Bureau, Lhasa, 850000, China

    Deqing Zhouga

  4. School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai, 200444, China

    Jialiang Feng

  5. Shanghai Environmental Monitoring Center, Shanghai, 200030, China

    Yihua Zhang

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Wei, N., Wang, G., Zhouga, D. et al. Source apportionment of carbonaceous particulate matter during haze days in Shanghai based on the radiocarbon. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 313, 145–153 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-017-5267-1

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