A review on ambient and indoor air pollution status in Africa

KE Agbo, C Walgraeve, JI Eze, PE Ugwoke… - Atmospheric Pollution …, 2021 - Elsevier
In spite of the global outcry for urgent action against air pollution, most African countries lack
functional air quality monitoring stations and data there from; making air quality …

A review of the main strategies used in the interpretation of similar chemical profiles yielded by receptor models in the source apportionment of particulate matter

ES Galvão, R de Cassia Feroni, MTDA Orlando - Chemosphere, 2021 - Elsevier
Receptor models have been widely used for the source apportionment of airborne
particulate matter. However, in the last 10 years, the use of factor analysis-based models …

Chemical composition and source apportionment of PM10 at an urban background site in a high–altitude Latin American megacity (Bogota, Colombia)

O Ramírez, AMS De La Campa, F Amato… - Environmental …, 2018 - Elsevier
Bogota registers frequent episodes of poor air quality from high PM 10 concentrations. It is
one of the main Latin American megacities, located at 2600 m in the tropical Andes, but …

Identification and apportionment of local and long-range sources of PM2. 5 in two East-Mediterranean sites

M Fadel, D Courcot, M Seigneur, A Kfoury… - Atmospheric Pollution …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The East Mediterranean and Middle East (EMME) region is a global climate hotspot
that suffers from a lack of robust environmental data. This region, especially the Middle East …

Long term trends of chemical constituents and source contributions of PM2. 5 in Seoul

EH Park, J Heo, H Kim, SM Yi - Chemosphere, 2020 - Elsevier
PM 2.5 was measured and analyzed between 2014 and 2015 in Seoul, and its sources were
identified with a positive matrix factorization (PMF) to characterize chemical constituents and …

Long term spatiotemporal trends and health risk assessment of remotely sensed PM2. 5 concentrations in Nigeria

S Tariq, A Mariam, U Mehmood - Environmental Pollution, 2023 - Elsevier
PM 2.5 is an important indicator reflecting air quality variations. Currently, environmental
pollution related issues have become more severe that significantly threaten human health …

Source apportionment of fine particulate matter by positive matrix factorization in the metropolitan area of São Paulo, Brazil

RM de Miranda, M de Fatima Andrade… - Journal of cleaner …, 2018 - Elsevier
Aerosols are generated by a wide variety of sources, have different compositions, and have
effects on climate, as well as on human health. Therefore, the analysis of aerosols in urban …

Spatiotemporal empirical analysis of particulate matter PM2. 5 pollution and air quality index (AQI) trends in Africa using MERRA-2 reanalysis datasets (1980–2021)

YO Ouma, A Keitsile, L Lottering, B Nkwae… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
In this study, the spatial-temporal trends of PM 2.5 pollution were analyzed for subregions in
Africa and the entire continent from 1980 to 2021. The distributions and trends of PM 2.5 …

[HTML][HTML] Source apportionment of ambient PM10 collected at three sites in an urban-industrial area with multi-time resolution factor analyses

D Mooibroek, UM Sofowote, PK Hopke - Science of The Total Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Chemical speciation data for PM 10, collected for annual trend analyses of health-relevant
species, at three receptor sites in a highly industrialized area (IJmond) in the Netherlands …

Spatial-temporal variation and local source identification of air pollutants in a semi-urban settlement in Nigeria using low-cost sensors

OK Owoade, PO Abiodun… - Aerosol and Air …, 2021 - researchportal.port.ac.uk
Low-cost sensors were deployed at five locations in a growing, semi-urban settlement in
southwest Nigeria between June 8 and July 31, 2018 to measure particulate matter (PM 2.5 …