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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Environ Int. 2019 Jul 8;131:104968. doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2019.104968

Table 4.

Source contributions to outdoor PM2.5 mass and elemental concentration (ng/m3)

Road dust Motor vehicles Secondary pollution Soil dust Marine aerosols Biomass burning Estimate Measured %MRE
Mass 209.2 1,698.7 2,630.9 434.8 75.0 1,107.2 6,155.8 6,497.3 5.3
BC 68.0 365.0 66.1 2.8 2.5 29.0 533.4 628.0 15.1
OC 400.3 846.7 485.8 0.0 13.3 811.3 2,557.4 2,868.6 10.8
Sulfate 0.0 287.3 1,314.8 0.0 9.4 40.0 1,651.5 1,508.4 9.5
Al 0.1 0.0 6.6 17.9 0.5 1.6 26.7 23.4 14.1
Ca 13.1 3.1 0.0 4.1 0.8 0.4 21.5 21.0 2.4
Cl 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.9 25.9 0.0 26.8 32.7 18.0
Cu 0.1 1.1 0.1 0.5 0.0 0.6 2.4 2.4 0.0
Fe 7.5 26.3 0.0 12.0 0.2 0.0 46.0 46.1 0.2
K 0.0 0.0 0.0 8.2 0.5 30.5 39.2 37.9 3.4
Mg 2.3 0.0 9.7 4.2 3.1 2.5 21.8 21.9 0.5
Na 25.5 13.2 49.6 0.0 24.7 1.4 114.4 128.7 11.1
Pb 0.3 1.3 0.4 0.5 0.0 0.5 3.0 2.9 3.4
Si 4.5 0.4 2.9 36.1 0.1 0.0 44.0 44.4 0.9
Ti 0.1 0.7 0.1 1.1 0.0 0.3 2.3 2.2 4.5
Zn 0.5 3.8 0.0 0.2 0.1 2.6 7.2 8.0 10.0