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Pollen Dispersion and Deposition in Real-World Urban Settings: A Computational Fluid Dynamic Study
Due to concern with the health and environmental impacts of allergic pine pollen on an urban community in Las Vegas, Nevada, a computation fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling framework was established for investigat...
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Open AccessLagged meteorological impacts on COVID-19 incidence among high-risk counties in the United States—a spatiotemporal analysis
The associations between meteorological factors and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have been discussed globally; however, because of short study periods, the lack of considering lagged effects, and differ...
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Schoolchildren’s exposure to PM2.5: a student club–based air quality monitoring campaign using low-cost sensors
To assess schoolchildren’s exposure to outdoor/indoor air pollution and identify those at a higher risk, it is desirable to conduct personal-level air quality monitoring. This paper documents a 2-month volunta...
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Measuring the Organic Carbon to Organic Matter Multiplier with Thermal/Optical Carbon-Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer Analyses
A thermal/optical carbon analyzer (TOA) was adapted to direct thermally-evolved gases to an electron ionization quadrupole mass spectrometer (QMS), creating a TOA-QMS. While this approach produces spectra simi...
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Emissions and Partitioning of Intermediate-Volatility and Semi-Volatile Polar Organic Compounds (I/SV-POCs) During Laboratory Combustion of Boreal and Sub-Tropical Peat
Burning of peatlands is estimated to be a large source of gas-phase non-methane organic compounds and organic aerosol to the atmosphere. However, little is known about the chemical characteristics of intermedi...
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Open AccessMass reconstruction methods for PM2.5: a review
Major components of suspended particulate matter (PM) are inorganic ions, organic matter (OM), elemental carbon (EC), geological minerals, salt, non-mineral elements, and water. Since oxygen (O) and hydrogen (...
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Standards and Traceability for Air Quality Measurements: Flow Rates and Gaseous Pollutants
Accurate and precise flow rate and gas concentration measurement standards are needed for comparable air quality measurements. Transfer standards are most often used for calibration, performance testing, and a...
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Quality assurance and quality control for thermal/optical analysis of aerosol samples for organic and elemental carbon
Accurate, precise, and valid organic and elemental carbon (OC and EC, respectively) measurements require more effort than the routine analysis of ambient aerosol and source samples. This paper documents the qu...