Published 2015-01-01
“…This study reports the first year-round ^14 C-based source apportionment of elemental carbon (EC), the mass-based correspondent to BC, using as regional receptor sites the international Maldives Climate Observatory in Hanimaadhoo (MCOH) and the mountaintop observatory of the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology in
Sinhagad, India (SINH). For the highly-polluted winter season (December–March), the fractional contribution to EC from biomass burning ( f _bio ) was 53 ± 5% ( n = 6) at MCOH and 56 ± 3% at SINH ( n = 5). …”
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