[HTML][HTML] Source apportionment of PM2. 5 before and after COVID-19 lockdown in an urban-industrial area of the Lisbon metropolitan area, Portugal

CA Gamelas, N Canha, A Vicente, A Silva, S Borges… - Urban climate, 2023 - Elsevier
The lockdowns held due to the COVID-19 pandemic conducted to changes in air quality.
This study aimed to understand the variability of PM 2.5 levels and composition in an urban …

Overview of PM10, PM2.5 and BC and Their Dependent Relationships with Meteorological Variables in an Urban Area in Northwestern Morocco

Y Bounakhla, A Benchrif, F Costabile, M Tahri… - Atmosphere, 2023 - mdpi.com
At an urban site in Kenitra, Morocco, two aerosol size fractions (PM2. 5 and PM10) were
sampled for four seasons to characterize the seasonal trends of particulate (PM) and …

Black carbon in Bulgaria—observed and modelled concentrations in two cities for two months

E Hristova, E Georgieva, B Veleva, N Neykova… - Atmosphere, 2022 - mdpi.com
Black carbon (BC) is one of the particulate matter (PM) components that both affects human
health and contributes to climate change. In this study, we present the preliminary results of …

[HTML][HTML] Characterization of urban aerosol pollution before and during the COVID-19 crisis in a central-eastern European urban environment

Z Kertész, S Aljboor, A Angyal, E Papp, E Furu… - Atmospheric …, 2024 - Elsevier
The worldwide restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic induced a radical change in
urban air quality. The objective of this work was to study and understand the variation of PM …

Compensatory effect of biomass burning on black carbon concentrations during COVID-19 lockdown at a high-altitude station in SW India

S Mukherjee, A Verma, GS Meena, S Kodoli… - Atmospheric Pollution …, 2022 - Elsevier
The characteristics of black carbon (BC) aerosols, their sources, and their impact on
atmospheric radiative forcing were extensively studied during the COVID-19 lockdown (28th …

[HTML][HTML] Chemical speciation and oxidative potential of PM10 in different residential microenvironments: Bedroom, living room and kitchen

YA Cipoli, ED Vicente, M Evtyugina, D Figueiredo… - Building and …, 2025 - Elsevier
Exposure to particulate matter (PM) and its chemical constituents in residential
microenvironments has become a major health concern worldwide. The oxidative potential …

The pollution characterization of black carbon aerosols in the southwest suburb of bei**g from 2013 to 2019

J Zhang, Y Yao, C **ao, Y Gu, X **, P Wang… - Atmospheric Pollution …, 2023 - Elsevier
Multi-year monitoring of black carbon (BC) concentrations has been conducted for the
period December 2012 to January 2020 in Bei**g. Equivalent BC1 (EBC1) and equivalent …

Gaseous pollutants and particulate matter in ambient air: first field experiment in an urban Mediterranean area (Nador, Morocco)

B Oujidi, A Benchrif, M Tahri, F Zahry… - Aerosol and Air Quality …, 2023 - Springer
Mediterranean urban areas are reportedly affected by poor air quality due to numerous
emission sources, as well as topography and meteorological conditions that facilitate the …

Yearly variations of equivalent black carbon concentrations observed in Krakow, Poland

A Ryś, L Samek - Atmosphere, 2022 - mdpi.com
The evaluation of the equivalent black carbon (eBC) concentration is very important,
especially in environmental sciences. Light absorbing carbon (LAC), also presented as …

Machine learning techniques to determine elemental concentrations from raw IBA spectra

DD Cohen, J Crawford - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics …, 2024 - Elsevier
For many decades we have run MeV protons beams together with four IBA spectra
simultaneously to obtain over 35 different elemental concentrations on any given target …