A receptor model for urban aerosols based on oblique factor analysis

✍ Scribed by Kristian Keiding; Morten S. Sørensen; Niels Pind

• Book ID: 104100433
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 842 KB
• Volume: 193
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0003-2670
• DOI: 10.1016/s0003-2670(00)86161-9

✦ Synopsis

A procedure is outlined for the construction of receptor models of urban aerosols, based on factor analysis. The advantage of the procedure is that the covariation of source impacts is included in the construction of the models. The results are compared with results obtained by other receptor-modelling procedures. It was found that procedures based on correlating sources were physically sound as well as in mutual agreement. Procedures based on non-correlating sources were found to generate physically obscure models.