A comparison of four receptor models used to quantify the boreal wildfire smoke contribution to surface PM<sub>2.5</sub> in Halifax, Nova Scotia during the BORTAS-B experiment

Gibson, M. D.; Haelssig, J.; Pierce, J. R.; Parrington, M.; Franklin, J. E.; Hopper, J. T.; Li, Z.; Ward, T. J.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-815-2015

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23 Jan 2015

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A comparison of four receptor models used to quantify the boreal wildfire smoke contribution to surface PM_2.5 in Halifax, Nova Scotia during the BORTAS-B experiment

M. D. Gibson, J. Haelssig, J. R. Pierce, M. Parrington, J. E. Franklin, J. T. Hopper, Z. Li, and T. J. Ward

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RC C8203: 'Anonymous Review', Anonymous Referee #1, 17 Oct 2014
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RC C8243: 'Comments on Gibson et al. (submitted) A comparison of four receptor models used to quantify the boreal wildfire smoke contribution to surface PM2.5 in Halifax, Nova Scotia during the BORTAS-B experiment', Anonymous Referee #2, 19 Oct 2014
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This paper presents a quantitative comparison of the four most commonly used receptor models, namely absolute principal component scores, pragmatic mass closure, chemical mass balance, and positive matrix factorization. The receptor models were used to predict the contributions of boreal wild-fire smoke and other sources to PM2.5 mass in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada during the BORTAS-B experiment. This paper also presents a new woodsmoke PM2.5 enrichment factor (levoglucosan x 52).

A comparison of four receptor models used to quantify the boreal wildfire smoke contribution to surface PM2.5 in Halifax, Nova Scotia during the BORTAS-B experiment

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A comparison of four receptor models used to quantify the boreal wildfire smoke contribution to surface PM_2.5 in Halifax, Nova Scotia during the BORTAS-B experiment