Abstract
Source apportionment study was performed on two types of atmospheric aerosols. The first type was aerosol deposited on needles of pine (Pinus sylvestris, Pinus strobus) and spruce (Picea Abies) trees on three sampling sites in Bohemian Switzerland National Park.
The second type was PM10 aerosol (particles with aerodynamic diameter lower than 10 micrometer) collected on Teflon membrane filter by means of low-volume sampler in an urban atmosphere of Prague and Benešov. Multielemental and stable lead isotopic composition of the aerosols was determined by an inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) and soluble anions by ion chromatography (IC).
Than the datasets obtained were subject to Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to apportion sources of the aerosols.