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TL;DR: The results suggest that, in addition to mitigating primary particulate emissions, reducing the emissions of secondary aerosol precursors from fossil fuel combustion and biomass burning is likely to be important for controlling China’s PM2.5 levels and for reducing the environmental, economic and health impacts resulting from particulate pollution.

TL;DR: A review of the most commonly used SA methods in Europe, their comparability and results, and to evaluate current trends and identify possible gaps of the methods and future research directions is presented in this article.

TL;DR: A linear regression model of the carbonaceous particulate mass in the submicrometer size range CM(PM1) as a function of aerosol light absorption properties measured by the aethalometer is introduced, and results indicate that light absorption exponents of 1.8-1.9 for wood burning calculated from the light absorption at 470 and 950 nanometers should be used to obtain agreement of the two methods regarding the relative wood burning and traffic emission contributions.

TL;DR: The identified ambient signature of wood burning was found to be very similar to the mass spectral signature obtained during the burning of chestnut wood samples in a small stove and also to the spectrum of levoglucosan.

TL;DR: Atmosphere: State of the Art and Challenges Barbara Nozier̀e,*,† Markus Kalberer,*,‡ Magda Claeys,* James Allan, Barbara D’Anna,† Stefano Decesari, Emanuela Finessi, Marianne Glasius, Irena Grgic,́ Jacqueline F.