Rebecca J. Sheesley

TL;DR: Using radiocarbon measurements of winter monsoon aerosols from western India and the Indian Ocean, it is determined that biomass combustion produced two-thirds of the bulk carbonaceous aerosols, as well as one-half and two- thirds of two black carbon subfractions, respectively.

TL;DR: In this paper, the smoke from domestic use of these fuels is expected to be a major source of atmospheric particulate matter in the region and needs to be characterized for input in regional source apportionment models and global climate models.

TL;DR: In this paper, a chemical mass balance model based on molecular marker species was used to determine the relative contribution of major sources to ambient organic carbon (OC) using thermal-optical filter-based methods.

TL;DR: VOC emission factors show that emissions of certain aromatic compounds and terpenes such as alpha and beta-pinenes, which are important precursors for secondary organic aerosol (SOA), are much higher from active prescribed burnings than from fireplace wood and laboratory open burning studies.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used gas chromatography/mass spectrometry of 29 particle-phase organic compounds, including n-alkanes, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), hopanes, steranes, and levoglucosan along with quantification of silicon, aluminum, and elemental carbon to quantify the primary source contributions to the PM-2.5.