Fine particle characterisation, source apportionment and long range dust transport into the Sydney Basin: a long term study between 1998 and 2009.

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dc.contributor.authorCohen, DDen_AU
dc.contributor.authorStelcer, Een_AU
dc.contributor.authorGarton, Den_AU
dc.contributor.authorCrawford, Jen_AU
dc.date.accessioned2012-05-14T23:30:41Zen_AU
dc.date.available2012-05-14T23:30:41Zen_AU
dc.date.issued2011-04-01en_AU
dc.date.statistics2012-05-15en_AU
dc.description.abstractIon beam analysis techniques have been used to characterise fine particle (PM2.5) pollution in the Sydney Basin between 1 July 1998 and 31 December 2009. Nearly 1 200 filters were obtained and analysed for more than 21 different chemical species from hydrogen to lead. Positive matrix factorisation was then applied to this significant database to determine 7 different source fingerprints and their contributions to the total PM2.5 mass. Most of these sources originated in the Sydney Basin, however there were significant windblown soil sources that originated not just from desert regions in central Australia but also from large agricultural regions around 500 km south west of the Basin. This long range transport of fine dust was tracked using hourly back trajectories for every sampling day during the study period and showed that 33% of extreme dust events were probably originating from agricultural regions and not the central desert regions of Australia as first thought. Copyright Copyright © 2011 Turkish National Committee for Air Pollution Research and Control (TUNCAP).en_AU
dc.identifier.citationCohen, D. D., Stelcer, E., Garton, D., Crawford, J. (2011). Fine particle characterisation, source apportionment and long-range dust transport into the Sydney Basin: a long term study between 1998 and 2009. Atmospheric Pollution Research, 2(2), 182-189. doi:10.5094/APR.2011.023en_AU
dc.identifier.govdoc3363en_AU
dc.identifier.issn1309-1042en_AU
dc.identifier.issue2en_AU
dc.identifier.journaltitleAtmospheric Pollution Researchen_AU
dc.identifier.pagination182-189en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.5094/APR.2011.023en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://apo.ansto.gov.au/dspace/handle/10238/4238en_AU
dc.identifier.volume2en_AU
dc.language.isoenen_AU
dc.publisherElsevieren_AU
dc.subjectFine particlesen_AU
dc.subjectDustsen_AU
dc.subjectEnvironmental transporten_AU
dc.subjectNew South Walesen_AU
dc.subjectSedimentary basinsen_AU
dc.subjectPollutionen_AU
dc.subjectFactorizationen_AU
dc.titleFine particle characterisation, source apportionment and long range dust transport into the Sydney Basin: a long term study between 1998 and 2009.en_AU
dc.typeJournal Articleen_AU
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