Table 2. Inter-element correlation matrix for particles > 1 μm obtained from MOUDI samples for all the sampling periods. Values represent the linear coefficient of correlation (R) between elements in pairs. The shaded fields indicate the strongest correlations (R>0.7).
| Be | Mg | Al | Sc | Fe | Cu | As | Cd | Pb | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Be | 0.334 | 0.232 | 0.31 | 0.467 | 0.374 | 0.231 | 0.454 | 0.432 | |
| Mg | 0.895 | 0.916 | 0.864 | 0.443 | -0.114 | -0.116 | -0.093 | ||
| Al | 0.895 | 0.686 | 0.516 | -0.02 | -0.01 | 0.035 | |||
| Sc | 0.774 | 0.472 | -0.141 | -0.114 | -0.05 | ||||
| Fe | 0.507 | -0.043 | 0.006 | 0.007 | |||||
| Cu | 0.513 | 0.584 | 0.618 | ||||||
| As | 0.894 | 0.936 | |||||||
| Cd | 0.936 | ||||||||
| Pb |