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PARTICULATE ORGANIC SOURCE MARKERS IN THE NEW YORK CITY METROPOLITAN AREA
Citation:
MCDOW, S. R., M. MAZUREK, M. LI, R. M. DUVALL, AND G. A. NORRIS. PARTICULATE ORGANIC SOURCE MARKERS IN THE NEW YORK CITY METROPOLITAN AREA. Presented at American Geophysical Union National Meeting, San Fancisco, CA, December 11 - 15, 2006.
Impact/Purpose:
The goal of this task is to develop methods and models to reduce the uncertainty in quantifying local and regional air pollutant source impacts on ambient samples collected in speciated PM, air toxic, and semi-continuous measurement networks. A combination of high resolution sampling, organic and inorganic analytical methods, and models will be developed and evaluated to reduce the uncertainty in source apportionment:
(1) semi-continuous inorganic species sampling
(2) inorganic analysis
(3) organic analysis for medium flow samples
(4) multivariate receptor models for ambient samples
(5) regional and local models
In addition, this task contributes to two additional tasks that have research focused on reducing the uncertainty in source apportionment: Identify Sources of Human Exposure (21176), and NAAQS implementation (21179).
Description:
A sampling network of four sites was established for the Speciation of Organics for Apportionment of PM2.5 (SOAP) project during 2002-2003 to investigate composition, seasonal and spatial variability, and source contributions to particulate organic matter in the New York City metropolitan area. A total of 63 organic species were selected for analysis based on their promise for distinguishing anthropogenic, biogenic, primary, and secondary sources. Results suggested differences in spatial variability for different sources of particulate organic matter within the metropolitan area. For example, hopanes exhibited substantially higher concentrations at urban and near road sites than suburban and background sites, demonstrating a local influence for motor vehicle contributions, but dicarboxylic acids were more spatially uniform, suggesting that secondary organic aerosol was more regional in nature.