Oxygen isotope analysis of levoglucosan, a tracer of wood burning, in experimental and ambient aerosol samples.
Jan BleesMatthias SaurerRolf T W SiegwolfVidmantas UleviciusAndré S H PrevôtJosef DommenMarco M LehmannPublished in: Rapid communications in mass spectrometry : RCM (2018)
Low oxygen isotope fractionation between cellulose and levoglucosan and clear differences in levoglucosan δ18 O values between the Swiss and Lithuanian ambient samples demonstrate that our new method is useful for source appointment studies on wood-burning-derived aerosols.