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  • Contributions of primary so...
    Bhandari, Sahil; Arub, Zainab; Habib, Gazala; Apte, Joshua S; Hildebrandt Ruiz, Lea

    Atmospheric chemistry and physics, 10/2022, Letnik: 22, Številka: 20
    Journal Article

    Delhi, India, experiences extremely high concentrations of primary organic aerosol (POA). Few prior source apportionment studies on Delhi have captured the influence of biomass burning organic aerosol (BBOA) and cooking organic aerosol (COA) on POA. In a companion paper, we develop a new method to conduct source apportionment resolved by time of day using the underlying approach of positive matrix factorization (PMF). We call this approach "time-of-day PMF" and statistically demonstrate the improvements of this approach over traditional PMF. Here, we quantify the contributions of BBOA, COA, and hydrocarbon-like organic aerosol (HOA) by applying positive matrix factorization (PMF) resolved by time of day on two seasons (winter and monsoon seasons of 2017) using organic aerosol measurements from an aerosol chemical speciation monitor (ACSM). We deploy the EPA PMF tool with the underlying Multilinear Engine (ME-2) as the PMF solver. We also conduct detailed uncertainty analysis for statistical validation of our results.