Here is a list of journal articles and reports on air pollution and analysis, which we feel are essential reads in their respective sub-categories. This list is generated in consultation with a number of experts in their fields and most referenced lists. These articles provide rich background information and a starting point for further literature
General Air Quality
- Global Air Quality and Pollution
Science (2003) - Atmospheric composition change – global and regional air quality
Atmospheric Environment (2009)
Black Carbon
- Bounding the role of black carbon in the climate system: A scientific assessment
Journal of Geophysical Research (2013)
Chemical Mechanisms
- SAPRC atmospheric chemical mechanisms and VOC reactivity scales
Description and emissions assignment files (2013) - A new mechanism for regional atmospheric chemistry modeling (RACM)
Journal of Geophysical Research (1997) - The regional atmospheric chemistry mechanism, version 2 (RACM2)
Atmospheric Environment (2013) - Comparison of photochemical mechanisms for air quality modeling
Atmospheric Environment (2003)
Chemical Transport Models and Applications
- Development of the adjoint of GEOS-Chem
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (2007)
Instrumentation and Models for Sample Based Source Apportionment
- X-Ray florescence analysis of ambient air samples
Elemental Analysis of Airborne Particles (Book) (1999) - Ion chromatography in elemental analysis of airborne particles
Elemental Analysis of Airborne Particles (Book) (1999) - Summary of Organic and Elemental Carbon/Black Carbon Analysis Methods and Intercomparisons
Aerosol and Air Quality Research (2005) - The application of thermal methods for determining chemical composition of carbonaceous aerosols: A review
Journal of Environmental Science and Health (2007) - Chemical Mass Balance (CMB) Model
US EPA (last accessed 2021.01) - Positive Matrix Factorization Model
US EPA (last accessed 2021.01)
Emission Inventories and Emission Factors
- X-Ray florescence analysis of ambient air samples
Elemental Analysis of Airborne Particles (Book) (1999)
Emissions Modeling Tools
- X-Ray florescence analysis of ambient air samples
Elemental Analysis of Airborne Particles (Book) (1999)
Biogenic Emissions
- X-Ray florescence analysis of ambient air samples
Elemental Analysis of Airborne Particles (Book) (1999)
Open Waste Burning
- X-Ray florescence analysis of ambient air samples
Elemental Analysis of Airborne Particles (Book) (1999)
Instrumentation and Models for Sample Based Source Apportionment
- X-Ray florescence analysis of ambient air samples
Elemental Analysis of Airborne Particles (Book) (1999)