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ArticleEnvironmental monitoring and assessment2024

Source apportionment of fine atmospheric particles in Bloemfontein, South Africa, using positive matrix factorization.

Deidré van der Westhuizen, Chantelle Howlett-Downing, Peter Molnár, Johan Boman, Janine Wichmann, Karel G von Eschwege

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Article in Environmental monitoring and assessment, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

0 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Deidré van der WesthuizenDepartment of Chemistry, University of the Free State, PO Box 339, Bloemfontein, 9300, South Africa.
Chantelle Howlett-DowningSchool of Health Systems and Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.
Peter MolnárDepartment of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Johan BomanDepartment of Chemistry and Molecular Biology, Atmospheric Science Division, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden. johan.boman@gu.se.
Janine WichmannSchool of Health Systems and Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa. janine.wichmann@up.ac.za.
Karel G von EschwegeDepartment of Chemistry, University of the Free State, PO Box 339, Bloemfontein, 9300, South Africa. vEschwKG@ufs.ac.za.
University of Gothenburg · SEUniversity of Pretoria · ZAUniversity of the Free State · ZA

Funding

South African National Research Foundation 113327
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Air pollution is of major health and environmental concern globally and in South Africa. Studies on the sources of PM

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Air PollutionEnvironmental MonitoringAtlantic OceanDustSouth AfricaDustAir pollutionBlack carbonOrganic carbonPM2.5Source apportionmentTrace elements

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PMID38261167
PMCPMC10806018
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