Source Apportionment of Phoenix PM_(2.5) Aerosol with the Unmix Receptor Model

摘要

The multivariate receptor model Unmix has been used to analyze a 3-yr PM_(2.5) ambient aerosol data set collected in Phoenix, AZ, beginning in 1995. The analysis generated source profiles and overall average percentage source contribution estimates (SCEs) for five source categories: gasoline engines (33 +- 4%), diesel engines (16 +- 2%), secondary SO_4~(2-) (19 +- 2%), crustal/soil (22 +- 2%), and vegetative burning (10 +- 2%). The Unmix analysis was supplemented with scanning electron microscopy (SEM) of a limited number of filter samples for information on possible additional low-strength sources. Except for the diesel engine source category, the Unmix SCEs were generally consistent with an earlier multivariate receptor analysis of essentially the same data using the Positive Matrix Factorization (PMF) model. This article provides the first demonstration for an urban area of the capability of the Unmix receptor model.