RECEPTOR MODELING AS A TOOL FOR AIR POLLUTION SOURCE DETECTION AND APPORTIONMENT

The usual way for air quality assessment and pollution source apportionment estimation is usually based on air pollution dispersion modeling. This approach has some serious drawbacks. The most serious drawback is that only known and documented pollution sources can be took into the consideration. Receptor modeling in the other hand is based only on statistical analyses of air pollution measurements and can provide information about decisive air pollution sources and their chemical profiles at the measuring site. This article is based on pollution data at Ostrava-Bartovice and Ostrava-Marianske hory air pollution monitoring sites which were analyzed using PMF receptor model.