Source Apportionment and Elemental Composition of PM2.5 and PM10 in Jeddah City, Saudi Arabia.

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Source Apportionment and Elemental Composition of PM2.5 and PM10 in Jeddah City, Saudi Arabia Mamdouh Khodeir1, Magdy Shamy1, Mansour Alghamdi1, Mianhua Zhong2, Hong Sun2, Max Costa2, Lung-Chi Chen2, and Polina Maciejczyk3 1Department of Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Meteorology, Environment and Arid Land Agriculture, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah Saudi Arabia 2Department 3Eckerd

of Environmental Medicine, NYU School of Medicine, Tuxedo, NY, USA

College, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA

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This paper presents the first comprehensive investigation of PM2.5 and PM10 composition and sources in Saudi Arabia. We conducted a multi-week multiple sites sampling campaign in Jeddah between June and September, 2011, and analyzed samples by XRF. The overall mean mass concentration was 28.4 ± 25.4 μg/m3 for PM2.5 and 87.3 ± 47.3 μg/m3 for PM10, with significant temporal and spatial variability. The average ratio of PM2.5/PM10 was 0.33. Chemical composition data were modeled using factor analysis with varimax orthogonal rotation to determine five and four particle source categories contributing significant amount of for PM2.5 and PM10 mass, respectively. In both PM2.5 and PM10 sources were (1) heavy oil combustion characterized by high Ni and V; (2) resuspended soil characterized by high concentrations of Ca, Fe, Al, and Si; and (3) marine aerosol. The two other sources in PM2.5 were (4) Cu/Zn source; (5) traffic source identified by presence of Pb, Br, and Se; while in PM10 it was a mixed industrial source. To estimate the mass contributions of each individual source category, the CAPs mass concentration was regressed against the factor scores. Cumulatively, resuspended soil and oil combustion contributed 77 and 82% mass of PM2.5 and PM10, respectively.

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Atmospheric pollution in Saudi Arabia, as a serious consequence of the rapid economic and social growth associated with fuel over-consumption, has recently become of considerable interest. Also, just as they are worldwide, chronic illnesses such as cancer, cardiovascular and respiratory diseases constitute a serious public health problem in Saudi Arabia (NCR). In general, the studies of the effects of air pollution on chronic diseases are not conclusive due to the difficulty of assembling large cohorts, following subjects through a long enough period of time, and the difficulty in measuring personal exposures to ambient air pollution (Chen and Goldberg, 2009). However, most recent reviews agree that the human health effects should not be attributed simply to the total mass concentration, and call to establish the toxicity of particulate matter (PM) components (Fanning et al. 2007), specifically metallic elements (Lippmann and Chen, 2009), inorganic compounds (Schlesinger, 2007) and carbonaceous PM components (Mauderly and Chow, 2008). Identifying the sources of ambient air pollution will support further research of specific mechanistic pathways of pollution and diseases.

Correspondence should be address to Lung Chi Chen, 57 Old Forge Road, Tuxedo, NY 10987, [email protected].

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Jeddah is the second largest city and the most significant commercial center in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The growth of the city over the last thirty years has been rapid and diverse, and continues to date. Unfortunately, due to lack of awareness and proper regulations, these development activities were accompanied by environmental degradation, and over the years the air quality progressively deteriorated. Most recent study by El-Assouli, et al. (2007) reported that PM10 in the city of Jeddah routinely exceeds the average hourly standard for PM10 (established by the Presidency of Meteorology and Environment, PME) of 80 μg/m3. Although most of that PM was contributed by sand storms, the PM10 extractable organic matter collected at 11 sites was found to be genotoxic. Similar to almost everywhere else in the world, Jeddah’s environment and its citizens’ health are affected by both stationary and mobile sources. Here, the stationary sources include an oil refinery, a desalinization plant, a power generation plant and several manufacturing industries (Figure 1). Many of the industrial facilities, such as the Jeddah oil refinery, were originally built in nonresidential areas, but with urban development that ensued, are now in the middle of highly populated areas, and some of Jeddah’s residential areas are particularly affected by several concrete factories. Additionally, somewhat unique PM source to this area are desert sand storms. Mobile sources of pollution (all forms of transportation) also became Jeddah’s most significant source of air pollution (Al-Jeelani, 1996) with 1.4 million cars currently registered in Jeddah. Although the early study by Nasralla (1983) concluded that concentrations of airborne particulates and other pollutants in Jeddah exceeded air quality standards, there is no research of sources of atmospheric PM in Jeddah. Several studies have been conducted to assess concentrations of total suspended particulates (TSP) and/or PM10, as well as their lead content (Nasrallah, 1984, Abulfaraj, et al., 1990, and Al-Jeelani, 1996). The PM2.5 studies are either limited to a specific component such lead in Saudi Arabia after leaded gasoline phase-out (Aburas, et al., 2011), or specific source, such as a study on roadside soil pollution (Kadi, 2009). This paper will be the first one ever to report the comprehensive elemental composition, concentrations, and sources of PM2.5 and PM10 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The results of this study will establish the groundwork to evaluate the association between particulate air pollution and epigenetic modifications, and the onset of environmentally-related diseases.

METHODS Particulate Sample Collection and Analysis


Jeddah, population 3.4 million, is located on the Red Sea coast in the western part of Saudi Arabia. The city is surrounded by mountains in the north-east, east and south-east. The city has a major airport in the northern part, and various industrial activities in southern Jeddah. Vehicle fuels used in Jeddah are mainly unleaded gasoline and diesel although some Pb is still permissible, as discussed further. The general climate of Jeddah is warm and moderate in winter; however, in summer it is characterized by high temperature and humidity. Rainfall is generally sparse. Meteorological data was obtained from PME. During the entire sampling campaign the prevailing winds were from west (32%) and north-west (40%). The average temperature was 33°C, and there was no precipitation. The PM2.5 and PM10 samplers (Automated Cartridge Collector Unit (ACCU) Sampler) were installed during June – September, 2011, at seven sites throughout Jeddah. The sites and the location of the study area in relation to the Middle East are shown on Figure 1. Sampling sites in Jeddah were selected according to traffic densities and human activities – three in urban (Site 4 – University Campus, Site 5– Al-Nuzlah Al Yamaneyyah and Site 6 – Pitrumin), one in suburban (Site 3 – Al-Rughama), two in residential (Site 1 – AlMuhammadiyah and Site 2 – Al-Rehab) and one in new residential (Site 7 – Al-Alfiyyah) areas. The urban and suburban areas in Jeddah are characterized by high traffic density and Atmos Pollut Res. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2014 March 12.

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commercial activities. The residential areas are characterized by relatively high traffic density. In contrast, the new residential area is characterized by construction activities and low traffic density. Sampling inlets were installed at a height of 5 to 8 m above ground. Daily 24-hr samples were collected on Teflon filters (GelmanTeflo, 37 mm, 0.2 μm pore) from midnight to midnight every other day for two weeks at each site, but not concurrently at all sites, except for the University Campus where samples were collected for three months. The specific time periods at each site are shown in Table 1. The description for gravimetric and elemental (via energy dispersive x-ray fluorescence, ED-XRF) analysis of all PM samples is described in Maciejczyk et al. (2005). Briefly, filter masses were measured on a microbalance (model MT5, Mettler-Toledo Inc., Highstown, NJ). Analyses for 33 elements (listed in Table 2 are elements above the detection limits) followed by nondestructive XRF (model EX-6600-AF, Jordan Valley) using five secondary fluorescers (Si, Ti, Fe, Ge, and Mo), and spectral software XRF2000 v 3.1 (U.S. EPA and ManTech Environmental Technology, Inc.). Source Apportionment


To identify major particle source categories, Na, Mg, Al, Si, S, Cl, K, Ca, V, Mn, Fe, Ni, Cu, Zn, Se, Br, and Pb were used as independent variables in source apportionment. The PM2.5 source apportionment modeling also included Ti and Ba. The selection of species was based on existing knowledge of elemental tracers (e.g., Gordon 1988; Thurston et al. 2005) as well as XRF detectability. Several major constituents of PM, such as nitrates, elemental and organic carbon, were not measured. The SPlus Factor Analysis model with varimax rotations was applied to the PM2.5 or PM10 sample trace constituents collected at all sites. The number of factors in the final solution was determined by experiments with different number of factors, with the final choice based on the evaluation of the interpretability of the resulting source profiles. To obtain the daily mass contribution from each source, the “absolute” scores were regressed onto the gravimetric mass concentrations (Thurston and Spangler 1985, Maciejczyk and Chen 2005).

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION PM mass and elemental concentrations


In total, 80 PM10 and 84 PM2.5 samples with 17 and 20 variables, respectively, were used for modeling purposes. The mean concentrations of elements with standard deviations, and total mass are shown in Tables 2 and 4. The overall mean mass concentration was 28.4 ± 25.4 μg/m3 for PM2.5, and 87.3 ± 47.3 μg/m3 for PM10. It is also apparent that PM concentrations also had significant spatial and temporal variability, with Site 3 driving the high average. All of these sites average concentrations exceeded both World Health Organization PM2.5 and PM210 annual averages of 10 and 20 μg/m3, respectively. The concentration of PM10 exceeded the European Union Air Quality Standard for daily average 50 ug/m3 in 87.5% of samples, and mean PM2.5 concentration exceeded the allowable EU annual PM2.5 average of 25 μg/m3. However, in comparison with U.S. 24-hr average standards, only 10% of PM10 samples exceeded the standard of 150 μg/m3, and 18% of PM2.5 samples exceeded the standard of 35 μg/m3. These results clearly indicated that the airborne particulate pollution has been high in Jeddah. Jeddah’s PM levels and ratio PM2.5/PM10 were compared with those in different locations across Europe and Asia (Table 3). The average ratio PM2.5/PM10 was 0.33 which was significantly lower than the most urban location. Only suburban Site 3 had a ratio of 0.52 comparable with the European urban ratios of 0.60 – 0.70. Other Jeddah’s sites clearly had a significant contribution from coarse PM resulting in an average PM2.5/PM10 ratio of 0.30.

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These were similar to the ones in Lebanon and India where PM10 concentrations was also high, most likely due to windblown dust, unpaved roads, and difference in urban landscaping. As shown in Table 4, the largest elemental contributors to the PM2.5 mass were S and Si, followed by Al, Fe, and Ca; while the largest contributors to the PM10 mass were Si and Ca, followed by S, Al, and Fe. The sum of the elements that were measured accounted for 36.5% of PM2.5 mass and 36.4% of PM10 mass. Reconstructed mass was computed from the elemental data for comparison with the measured mass concentrations for the same days. This was accomplished by using the following equations that account for the sum of typical PM components observed in the ambient atmosphere: ammonium sulfate, soil, sea salt (Malm et al. 1994; IMPROVE 2000):


As would be expected, given the lack of nitrate and carbon data analysis of the filters, and the possibility of unaccounted sources not represented by the equations, reconstructed mass concentrations are lower than those that were measured – 24.5 μg/m3 for PM2.5 (accounting for 87.0% of measured mass), and 63.4 μg/m3 for PM10 (or 72.2% of measured mass). Despite the missing speciation data, this calculation of reconstructed mass verifies that we had sufficient trace elemental data to be used in source apportionment. The difference between the actual measured PM2.5 and the reconstructed mass would therefore include ammonium nitrates, carbon particulates and any other PM component that had not been accounted for.


In order to investigate the sources of elements in Jeddah aerosol, the crustal enrichment factors (EFs) for each element, both in PM2.5 and PM10, were calculated to obtain preliminary information about elements originating both from human activities and natural processes. The enrichment factor for a generic element X with respect to a reference crustal element Y is defined as EFX = (X/Y)air/(X/Y)crust, where the ratio (X/Y) is the concentration ratio of X and Y in either aerosol sample or Earth crust. In the present study, Al was used as reference element Y, and the Earth crust chemical composition was taken from Taylor (1964) and Taylor and McLennan (1985). The mean EF values of the elements measured in PM2.5 and PM10 are summarized in Table 4. The EF values less than 10 indicate that the element has a significant crustal source, while EF values higher than 10 are ascribed to elements of anthropogenic origin (Biegalski et al., 1998). In Jeddah samples, EF values lower than 10 were found for Na, Mg, Al, Si, K, Ca, Ti, Cr, Mn, Fe, Rb, Sr in PM2.5 and Na, Mg, Al, Si, P, K, Ca, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Ni, Cu, Rb, Sr and Ba in PM10. The similarities between elements in these fractions suggests that both PM2.5 and PM10 main sources are of a crustal type (e.g., soil and re-suspended dust), while anthropogenic sources have a lesser contribution. In fact, we found significant correlation between PM2.5 and PM10 mass concentrations (r = 0.77, p0.80), and the five factors identified were satisfactory. However, low communalities of Cu, Zn and Pb (0.3 – 0.5) indicated that these element concentrations cannot be entirely predicted from identified sources. The first factor that explained most of the total variance (51%) was heavily loaded with Al, Si, and Fe, classified as resuspended soil source category (e.g., Amato et al. 2009). Although the strongest in our factor analysis, this resuspended soil source had a mean mass contribution 5.4 μg/m3 (or 8.3% of total mass), and had almost uniformly low mass contribution of less than 3%. Sites 5 and 6, located in the western part of the city did not collect significant soil amounts. The wind rises at site 4 (Figure 4) confirms that even under prevailing westerly winds, soil contribution is rather small. The large soil contributions to samples at site 3 (46 μg/m3) were driven by several days of exceptionally high PM mass under south-east winds conditions on 7/30 and 8/3/2011 (115 and 150 μg/m3, respectively). Site 3 is located in the eastern suburb of the city, and under prevailing westerly winds is influenced the most by pollution from nearby Al-Haramain Road that has daily traffic density of 300 000 cars. However, on 7/30 and 8/3 the soil factor mass contribution was also high at the University Campus site (50 and 22 μg/m3, respectively), indicating that the whole city was experiencing an additional dust episode, that most likely was transported from elsewhere. Overall correlation between the University Campus and the concurrent sites for the resuspended soil source mass contribution was high (r = 0.97). The second PM2.5 factor was rich in V, Ni, and S, and was assigned as emissions of oil combustion from the Jeddah oil refinery, electrical utilities and industrial and large Atmos Pollut Res. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2014 March 12.

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commercial boilers, as well as residual oil combustion emitted from ocean-going ships docked in Jeddah’s port. We did not have sufficient data to attribute some of this source to transported emissions from oil producing Sudan and Egypt. Mass contribution from this source was 16.9 μg/m3 (or 69% of PM2.5 mass), and explained 15.7% of total variance. Overall, this source contribution had more spatial variation – while University Campus contributions were quite similar regardless of wind direction (10 – 17 μg/m3 or 61–69% contribution to PM2.5 mass, as shown in Table 5 and Fig. 4), Sites 5 and 6, located closest to the port and refinery had the highest Factor 2 contributions of 28 and 34 μg/m3, respectively. Other sites are not immediately downwind of the refinery or the seaport, and thus had lesser contribution. Even at a concurrent site 4 under exact westerly winds the mass contribution from oil was two-fold less. Thus, it seems that the average background concentration of oil combustion source is about 14 μg/m3, with local point sources having significant effect at immediate proximity. In fact, heavy oil combustion contributed overall 88 and almost 100% of total PM2.5 mass at sites 5 and 6. Site 3 located in the eastern suburbs, farthest from the port and refinery, had third highest contribution from that source category. Interestingly, the average Ni/V ratio was fairly consistent at all sites (0.24–0.28) except for Site 3 where it was 0.35, indicating possibly another source of V that was not satisfactorily resolved here. Poor correlation coefficient between Ni and V indicates that these elements were not always emitted from the same source(s) (Maciejczyk et al. 2010; Peltier and Lippmann, 2010). Correlation between the University Campus and concurrent sites was poor (r = 0.26), indicative of the local point source influences. Removing Site 3 improved that correlation to r = 0.57.


The third factor (8.4% of total variance) contained Pb, Br, and Se was assigned as traffic source. Atmospheric Pb and Br historically had been attributed to traffic emissions as these elements were bound to fuel additives. Although Saudi Arabia phased out the leaded gasoline consumption in January 2001, allowable Pb content in gasoline remains at 13 mg/L, which means that in high traffic density cities, EF for Pb still remained elevated. It was estimated that total Pb in consumed fuel in Jeddah is about 83.6 ton/year (Aburas et al. 2011). Additional vehicular Pb emissions are also caused by engine wear (Smichowskiet et al. 2008). Besides the motor vehicles, both Pb and Se are emitted by municipal incinerators and high heat recycling facilities (Emsley, 2011); one of each is located in northern part of Jeddah. Selenium, commonly attributed to the coal combustion in Eastern U.S., is also present in oil (U.S. EPA, 2003). However, here Se did not correlate with heavy oil combustion source but rather with traffic, and thus, here serves as tracer for fossil fuel combustion. Bromine is present in multitude of consumer products, and volatilizes easily when heated during combustion. Elements such as Br, As and Zn are considered as indicators of emission from fossil fuel combustion process, including vehicle exhaust (Gordon 1988; Pacyna and Pacyna 2001). Despite the world wide abatement measures for fuel additives, both Pb and Br are persistently present in both urban and rural environment in Europe and U.S. For example, Pb and Br in the daily TSP and PM10 samples from 1998– 2000 collected in Germany were correlated, however not strongly with r(Pb, Br) = 0.56 (Lammel et al. 2002). Similarly, r = 0.61 was found in rural NY samples (Maciejczyk and Chen 2005; Maciejczyk et al. 2010). Here, we found r(Pb, Br) = 0.56 in PM2.5 and r(Pb, Br) = 0.51 in PM10. This factor mean contribution to PM2.5 mass concentration was 0.80 μg/m3 (or 3.7%). Although Pb has been banned in petrol for several years in Saudi Arabia, the levels of lead in the street dust of the urban areas can still reflect the significant degree of lead contamination from the past. We also noticed that the pollution rose for traffic source was virtually identical with overall wind rose, therefore, this can be considered as a regional source, further confirmed by the high inter-site correlation (r = 0.94) between University Campus and concurrent sites.


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The fourth factor was characterized by high Cu and Zn representing the combined sources of industry and some additional mix of motor vehicle emission. This source category explained 4.5% of the total variance. Although Zn mostly originates from tire wear, it is also attributed to incinerator emissions and metal working (e.g., Morishita et al. 2011), with both facilities present in northern part of the city. The metallurgical processes could produce the largest emissions of Cu, Ni, and Zn (Pacyna, 1998), while exhaust emissions from road vehicles could also contain various amounts of Cu, Zn, and Ni (Pacyna, 1986; Lee et al. 1999). There is no typical metallurgical plant in Jeddah; however, there is a high-temperature metal recycling facility north of the city, and metal fabrication facility on both the north and the south parts of the city. Furthermore, welding, fine sanding, and other metal cutting activities occur in the Jeddah port and shipyard on the west side of the city. Spatial and temporal variation of this source was variable, with a mean mass contribution of 2.1 μg/m3 (or 8.2%), and poor concurrent site correlation (r = 0.31).


The last factor identified for PM2.5 was rich in Na and Cl, the main elements in sea salt, and thus was cautiously named marine aerosol. This was a weak source explaining 2.8% of total variance, with contribution to mass of 0.3 μg/m3 (or 0.4%), which was also, spatially, highly variable. Oddly enough, the highest contribution from that source was at the site furthest from the seashore. Thus, it is possible that it was some other source located in between Site 4 and 3, since during the same time period the contribution to Site 4 was null. As seen on Fig. 4, this source contributed to Site 4 exclusively under west and north-west winds. The true identity of this source remains unclear. Sources of Jeddah PM10 aerosol – factor analysis


In PM10 factor analysis, four factors explained 75% of total variance. The loading for this PM fraction are shown in Fig. 3. The strongest Factor 1 explained 39.1% variance and was rich in Al, Si, and Fe, and, similarly to PM2.5, was identified as resuspended soil. Overall, this factor contributed to 64% of PM10 mass (or 55 μg/m3), although there were significant spatial and temporal variations (Table 6 and Figure 5). Sites 3 and 7 were affected the most by soil, but, we believe, for different reasons as confirmed by comparison to concurrent sampling at Site 4 (Table 6). Site 3 was down wind of a major highway and parcels of undeveloped land, and, therefore, had significantly higher soil factor contribution (128 μg/ m3, or 87% of overall PM10 mass) than at Site 4 (37 μg/m3, or 49% mass). However, while at Site 7 soil contribution was 78 μg/m3, the concurrent Site 4 samples were also of comparable 82 μg/m3, thus indicating regional dust episode rather than influence of local source. There is no spike for soil under south-east winds at site 4 soil pollution rose because we did not collect the PM10 samples on 7/30 and 8/3 (the days for high soil mass in PM2.5 samples). We believe significant contribution from resuspended soil comes from traffic transporting goods from the seaport sugar plant, also located near the seaport, and refinery. Factor 2 (named mixed industrial) in PM10 showed high loadings of Cu, Zn, Br, S and Ca, and it explained about 13% of total variance. This was the only PM10 factor positively correlated with Pb. High contributions of Zn and Cu and was assigned to metallurgical industries and to diesel powered vehicles. Zn was present in tire wear dust as well as in tailpipe emissions due to its use in motor oil, and Cu was present in brake wear dust (López et al., 2011). This factor was likely a mixture of coarse emission of industrial and traffic sources similar to Factor 3 and 4 for PM2.5, however, we were not able to further split this source. Contribution of this source was somewhat variable, on average 7.8 μg/m3 (or 10% of PM10 mass), and at the Site 4 it followed the wind rose, and the concentrations there were almost higher than at any concurrent other sites. The third factor had high loadings of V, Ni and S, and this clearly represented oil combustion similarly to PM2.5 Factor 2. The average mass contribution of this heavy oil Atmos Pollut Res. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2014 March 12.

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combustion source was 14 μg/m3 (or 18% mass). Sites 5 and 6 in immediate proximity and downwind of Jeddah refinery and sea port had the largest contribution of 19 and 31 μg/m3 (or 26 and 29% PM10 mass). Site 1, which was also close to the seashore, was likely affected by ship exhaust. Temporal variation of oil source contributions to Site 4 confirms that this is like a point source, and thus highly affected by wind direction, as seen in Fig. 5. For example, during concurrent sampling at Sites 4 and 7, the overall contribution of oil source was 2-fold, quite possibly because Site 7 was not downwind of the refinery and port emissions. Notably, the northwest contribution is missing in site 4 PM10 pollution rose, compared to PM2.5. The fourth factor was loaded with Na and Cl, which we attributed to coarse sea salt of marine aerosol which contributed on average 6.7 μg/m3 of PM10 mass (or about 9% mass). As shown with pollution rose at Site 4, this source was reasonably expressed under favorable winds from the sea. Site 1 had larger overall contribution from the marine aerosol due to its proximity to the seashore. Summary


This is the first study of elemental composition and sources of PM10 and PM2.5 in Saudi Arabia, and it reveals that airborne particulate matter in Jeddah is a serious problem. Using factor analysis, we determined that five and four source categories contributed to the mass concentration of PM2.5 and PM10, respectively, and estimated daily levels of sourceapportioned PM mass concentrations for each of these categories. The PM2.5 mass in Jeddah was dominated by contribution from heavy oil combustion (69%), followed by resuspended soil (8.2%), Cu/Zn source (8.2%), traffic (3.7%), and marine aerosol (0.4%). While mass contributions from soil (64%), heavy oil combustion (18%), mixed industrial sources (18%) and marine aerosol (9.3%) were found in PM10. Our source apportionment modeling determined the contributions from individual sources within each size fraction and could be used to (1) better focus control strategies and (2) in a subsequent time-series analysis of health effects, in particular morbidity outcomes.

Acknowledgments This work was funded by King Abdulaziz University (KAU), Jeddah, under grant number 4/00/00/252. The authors thank NYU and KAU for technical and financial support.

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Figure 1.

Location of sampling sites (stars) and major particulate sources (circles) in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.


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Figure 2.

Varimax rotated factor loadings for chemical species of PM2.5 combined from seven sites


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Figure 3.

Varimax rotated factor loadings for chemical species of PM10 combined from seven sites


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Figure 4.

Wind and pollution roses of each PM2.5 source category mass contribution to Site 4 (%).


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Figure 5.

Wind and pollution roses of each PM10 source category mass contribution to Site 4 (%).


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Table 1

Sampling sites summary


Site Name

Location type*

Sampling period in 2011

1. Al-Muhammadiyah

residential

September 10–22

7, 7

2. Al-Rehab

residential

August 13–25

7, 7

3. Al-Rughama

suburban

July 30–August 11

7, 6

4. University Campus

urban

June 18–September 24

5. Al-Nuzlah Al Yamaneyyah

urban

June 20–30

6, 6

6. Pitrumin

urban

July 2–14

7, 7

7. Al-Fiyyah

residential

July 16–28

7, 7

Number of samples (PM2.5, PM10)

43, 40

*

Urban= residential + commercial area

Suburban = urban area located at the city border

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2. Al-Rehab

3. Al-Rughama


5. Al-Nuzlah

6. Pitrumin

7. Al-Alfiyyah

All sites

25.4

11.8

5.8

14.1

11.7

65.1

4.0

3.1

S.D.

PM2.5 Mean

1. Al-Muhammadiyah

Site

87.3

99.4

107.1

73.5

84.9

141.3

68.9

47.0

47.3

43.9

28.7

10.1

33.1

124.2

20.5

6.5

S.D.

PM10 Mean

0.33

0.25

0.29

0.40

0.27

0.52

0.26

0.34

PM2.5/PM10


Summary of PM concentrations (μg/m3) in Jeddah


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Milan

Izmir (urban)

Cairo

Beirut

Hong Kong

Seoul

Hyderabad City

Turkey

Egypt

Lebanon

China

Korea

India

50

49

42

28, 39

86

64

45

18.2

17.4

Navarra 40.2

33.9

Eastern Spain

Finokalia

22.2

Tarragona

Athens

25, 27

Barcelona

28–35

Southern EU

Italy

Greece

Spain

13–19

Northern EU

Central EU

European Union

28.4 22–39

Jeddah

Saudia Arabia

PM2.5

Site

Country

135

51

80

87, 104

184

80

63

31

76

28

50

37.4

39, 43

45–55

26–51

30–53

87.3

PM10

0.37

0.98

0.53

0.32, 0.37

0.47

0.80

0.71

0.63

0.53

0.63

0.69

0.59

0.64, 0.62

0.6–0.7

0.33

PM2.5/PM10

Gummeneni et al. (2011)

Kim et al. (2003)

Ho et al. (2003)

Saliba et al. (2010)

Abu-Allaban et al. (2007)

Yatkin and Bayram (2008)

Marcazzan et al. (2003)

Gerasopoulos et al. (2007)

Chaloulakou et al. (2003)

Aldabe et al. (2011)

Rodríguez et al. (2004)

Moreno et al. (2006)

Pey et al. (2008), Querol et al. (2008)

Querol et al. (2004)

This study

Reference

Comparative concentrations of PM (μg/m3), and PM2.5/PM10 ratio






43

1.2

4

7.6

12

34

Sr

Cd

Cs

Ba

5.6

Rb

6.6

Ni

Cu

8.7

8.9

2.9

590

Fe

Co

Br

3.6

19

Se

14

2.1

Cr

Mn

41

1400

23

V

8.7

41

55

Ti

As

3.9

4.3

Sc

Zn

12

540

Ca


41

16

15

7.6

1.8

4.3

1.9

14

69

8.8

160

2.3

960

230

200

62

190

1300

K

S

4800

1600

Cl

80

3400

P

800

2100

Si

300

Al

390

430

Na

Mg

510

S.D.

mean

94

69

20

65

19

98

49

29

100

61

99

90

100

99

23

99

83

49

100

100

70

100

79

100

100

79

99

% detected

PM2.5

11

560

8800

2

4

815

14000

800

84

17

19

57

1

2

4

40

1

48

2

2

51

3000

18

1

1

2

3

EF

110

52

98

27

3.4

15

3.6

10

77

18

11

32

3100

98

8.8

31

290

-

4400

710

1600

3500

160

11000

3300

1400

1600

mean

74

31

85

15

3

5.4

2.3

16

120

14

5.6

26

2800

81

7.8

14

320

-

2200

410

1400

1100

62

8300

2600

750

830

S.D.

100

96

88

99

66

100

58

38

100

96

100

100

100

100

90

100

100

ND

100

100

100

100

96

100

100

100

100

% detected

PM10

7

470

15000

2

1

200

2400

150

26

8

5

34

1

3

2

8

1

3

1

430

490

5

1

1

2

3

EF

All sites summary of elemental concentrations (ng/m3) and enrichment factors.



160

350

83

1500

200

420

90

300

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Pb

% detected S.D. mean EF % detected mean

S.D.

PM2.5


PM10

EF

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3. Al-Rughama

7. Al-Alfiyyah 5.4

1.6 (4.2)

6. Pitrumin

All sites

0 (0) 0 (1.0)

5. Al-Nuzlah

2.7

46 (11)

2. Al-Rehab


0.4 (0) 0.6 (0.2)

1. Al-Muhammadiyah

Factor 1 soil

17

17 (17)

34 (15)

28 (16)

14

18 (16)

11 (11)

12 (10)

Factor 2 heavy oil combustion

0.8

1.1 (1.4)

0.7 (0.5)

0.7 (0.8)

0.8

0.7 (0.2)

0.9 (0.9)

0.7 (1.1)

Factor 3 traffic

2.1

2.3 (3.3)

0.5 (2.3)

2.0 (2.9)

2.6

3.8 (3.8)

0.9 (1.8)

0.3 (1.4)

Factor 4 Cu/Zn source

0.3

0 (0)

0 (0.3)

0 (0)

0.1

3.2 (0)

0 (0.1)

0.1 (0)

Factor 5 marine aerosol

Average mass source contribution (compared with concurrent data at University Campus Site 4) to PM2.5, in μg/m3




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Table 6


Average mass source contribution (compared with concurrent data at University Campus Site 4) to PM10, in μg/m3 Factor 1 soil

Factor 2 mixed industrial

Factor 3 heavy oil combustion

Factor 4 marine aerosol

1. Al-Muhammadiyah

21 (39)

2. Al-Rehab

42 (46)

3.6 (6.9)

13 (12)

9.1 (5.9)

7.3 (7.1)

6.8 (8.3)

6.8 (7.6)

3. Al-Rughama

128 (37)

4.5 (5.7)

8 (16)

4.2 (3.2)

51

9.0

13

6.7

5. Al-Nuzlah

43 (58)

5.8 (11)

19 (9)

8.8 (10)

6. Pitrumin

46 (47)

7.4 (13)

31 (12)

5.5 (7.1)

7. Al-Alfiyyah

78 (82)

10 (10)

11 (24)

5.6 (3.3)

55

7.8

14

6.7


All sites

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