A quantitative determination of sources in the Boston urban aerosol.

Abstract Target transformation factor analysis was used to determine the number and nature of sources in the Boston urban aerosol. The data were best represented with six sources : soil, residual fuel oil, refuse, motor vehicle, marine, and road dust. This form of factor analysis allows determination of actual elemental source profiles as well as the amount of material that each source contributed to each sample.

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