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. 2015 Mar 15;181(7):504–512. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwu305

Table 2.

Mean and Standard Deviation Summary Statistics for the Pollutant Source Concentrations, Atlanta, Georgia, January 2002–June 2010a

Source Minimum Median Mean Maximum SD IQR Correlationb Between Ensemble Runs
Biomass burning 0.000 (0.000) 1.894 (0.023) 2.723 (0.024) 32.103 (5.933) 2.643 (0.085) 2.600 (0.070) 0.752
Primary coal combustion 0.000 (0.000) 0.092 (0.001) 0.126 (0.001) 1.228 (0.173) 0.124 (0.001) 0.134 (0.003) 0.737
Dust/resuspended soil 0.000 (0.000) 0.252 (0.001) 0.378 (0.001) 7.045 (1.244) 0.463 (0.010) 0.273 (0.004) 0.981
Diesel-fueled vehicles 0.000 (0.000) 0.810 (0.014) 1.038 (0.005) 9.856 (0.916) 0.970 (0.015) 0.995 (0.033) 0.744
Gasoline-fueled vehicles 0.013 (0.009) 0.654 (0.011) 0.797 (0.006) 6.843 (0.675) 0.689 (0.010) 0.647 (0.009) 0.764
Secondary organic carbon 0.000 (0.000) 1.352 (0.009) 1.620 (0.013) 27.578 (1.071) 1.619 (0.013) 1.991 (0.055) 0.747

Abbreviations: IQR, interquartile range; SD, standard deviation.

a Averaged across 10 ensemble runs. All results are reported in µg/m3.

b Mean Spearman correlation calculated from all pairwise runs.