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S K Sharma1, T K Mandal2, D M Shenoy3, Pratirupa Bardhan3, Manoj K Srivastava4, A Chatterjee5, Mohit Saxena2, B P Singh4, S K Ghosh5.
Abstract
This paper presents the variation of elemental concentrations of total carbon (TC), total nitrogen (TN) and isotopic ratios of δ13C and δ15N along with δ13OC and OC of PM10 mass over Delhi, Varanasi and Kolkata of the Indo Gangetic Plain (IGP), India. For Delhi, the average concentrations of TC and TN of PM10 were 53.0±33.6 and 14.9±10.8 µg m(-3), whereas δ13C and δ15N of PM10 were -25.5±0.5 and 9.6±2.8‰, respectively. For Varanasi, the average values of δ13C and δ15N of PM10 were -25.4±0.8 and 6.8±2.4‰, respectively. For Kolkata, TC and TN values for PM10 ranged from 9.1-98.2 to 1.4-25.9 µg m(-3), respectively with average values of 32.6±24.9 and 9.3±8.2 µg m(-3), respectively. The average concentrations of δ13C and δ15N were -26.0±0.4 and 7.4±2.7‰, respectively over Kolkata with ranges of -26.6 to -24.9‰ and 2.8±11.5‰, respectively. The isotopic analysis revealed that biomass burning, vehicular emission and secondary inorganic aerosols were likely sources of PM10 mass over IGP, India.Entities:
Keywords: Carbon isotopes; Elemental carbon; Nitrogen isotopes; Organic carbon; PM10
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Year: 2015 PMID： 26438175 DOI： 10.1007/s00128-015-1660-z
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Bull Environ Contam Toxicol ISSN： 0007-4861 Impact factor: 2.151