Abstract
The composition of PM10, including molecular markers of biomass burning (levoglucosan, mannosan and galactosan), was determined at a residential site in southeastern Spain during winter and early spring. The average PM10 concentration was 25.0 μg m−3, being organic carbon (OC, 6.77 μg m−3), NO3− (2.02 μg m−3), SO42− (1.36 μg m−3) and Ca2+ (1.01 μg m−3) the main components. Levoglucosan was the dominant anhydrosugar (143 ng m−3), accounting for 81% of the total concentration of monosaccharide anhydrides. The average contribution of biomass combustion to OC, estimated from the levoglucosan data, was 23%. This value agreed well with that calculated by Positive Matrix Factorization (PMF, 25%). The PMF model resolved six factors that were assigned to road traffic (28%), secondary aerosols (27%), soil dust (14%), fresh sea salt (13%), aged sea salt (10%) and biomass burning (8%). This model was used to estimate the OC/Levoglucosan and PM10/Levoglucosan emission ratios for the study area.
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