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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jan 20.
Published in final edited form as: Atmos Environ (1994). 2015 Dec;122:250–258. doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2015.09.061

Table 3.

Correlation coefficients between PM1.0 constituents and meteorological parameters in Tucson for different months between July 2012 and June 2013. Bold values are statistically significant at 95% confidence using a two-tailed Student's t-test.

All (n = 68) MJ (n = 19) JAS (n = 28) N (n = 5) DJ (n = 16)
Meteorological Temperature 0.51 0.32 0.21 −0.13 0.11
RH 0.02 −0.05 −0.32 −0.15 −0.28
WVMR 0.45 0.27 −0.37 −0.47 −0.08
PM1.0 Sulfate 0.92 0.83 0.96 0.95 0.72
Ammonium 0.91 0.91 0.91 0.98 0.82
Ni 0.55 0.49 0.28 0.61 −0.14
Oxalate 0.54 0.40 0.34 0.67 0.08
V 0.52 0.68 0.69 0.96 0.47
Pb 0.48 −0.03 0.57 0.27 0.09
Cu 0.48 0.22 0.14 0.46 −0.14
MSA 0.42 0.69 0.60 0.29 0.12
Fe 0.19 −0.03 0.51 0.38 −0.06
Zn 0.19 0.08 −0.03 0.19 −0.08
K −0.19 0.38 0.15 −0.07 0.12
Nitrate −0.14 0.17 0.43 0.65 0.22
Si 0.03 −0.17 0.35 0.93 −0.06