Alicja Skiba, Katarzyna Styszko, Anna Tobler, Roberto Casotto, Zbigniew Gorczyca, Przemysław Furman, Lucyna Samek, Dariusz Wideł, Mirosław Zimnoch, Anne Kasper-Giebl, Jay G Slowik, Kaspar R Daellenbach, Andre S H Prevot, Kazimierz Różański
Air quality is of large concern in the city of Krakow, southern Poland. A comprehensive study was launched by us in which two PM fractions (PM1 and PM10 ) were sampled during 1-year campaign, lasting from April 21, 2018 to March 19, 2019. A suite of modern analytical methods was used to characterize the chemical composition of the collected samples. The contents of 14 sugars, sugar alcohols and anhydrosugars, 16 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, selected metals and non-metals and ions were analyzed, in addition to organic and elemental carbon content...
March 27, 2024: Scientific Reports