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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Sci Total Environ. 2011 Mar 22;409(11):2133–2142. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.02.025

Table 5.

Correlations between the concentrations in Hartford and the ones in all other sites for PM2.5 mass, source contributions, and selected PM2.5 chemical components

Average PM2.5 Regional Sulfur Motor Vehicle Road Dust Oil Combustion Sea Salt
Bridgeport 0.89 0.77 0.68 0.68 0.76 0.57
Danbury 0.91 0.84 0.72 0.76 0.59 0.55
New Haven 0.82 0.82 0.64 0.41 0.22 0.46
Springfield 0.85 0.81 0.69 0.62 0.76 0.37
Average EC Zn Pb Cu Br Si Fe Al Ca
Bridgeport 0.69 0.74 0.36 0.62 0.52 0.79 0.68 0.61 0.66
Danbury 0.87 0.81 0.40 0.56 0.52 0.85 0.80 0.66 0.73
New Haven 0.65 0.70 0.28 0.46 0.46 0.55 0.47 0.41 0.46
Springfield 0.76 0.81 0.38 0.44 0.42 0.74 0.68 0.58 0.64

Ba Ti S K V Ni Na Cl Mn

Bridgeport 0.59 0.63 0.87 0.80 0.78 0.63 0.73 0.59 0.31
Danbury 0.57 0.55 0.93 0.85 0.69 0.49 0.73 0.57 0.39
New Haven - 0.33 0.88 0.73 0.28 0.27 0.68 0.47 -
Springfield 0.44 0.53 0.87 0.82 0.80 0.49 0.51 0.39 0.20

Note: The correlation coefficients with a symbol (-) were not significant (p > 0.05).