Atmos. Chem. Phys., 18, 11793–11812, 2018 https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-11793-2018 © Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. First long-term and near real-time measurement of trace elements in China’s urban atmosphere: temporal variability, source apportionment and precipitation effect Yunhua Chang1,2,3, Kan Huang4, Mingjie Xie5, Congrui Deng4, Zhong Zou4,6, Shoudong Liu1,2,3, and Yanlin Zhang1,2,3 1Yale-NUIST Center on Atmospheric Environment, International Joint Laboratory on Climate and Environment Change (ILCEC), Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing 210044, China 2Key Laboratory of Meteorological Disaster, Ministry of Education (KLME)/ Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of Meteorological Disasters (CIC-FEMD), Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing 210044, China 3Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Agricultural Meteorology, College of Applied Meteorology, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing 210044, China 4Center for Atmospheric Chemistry Study, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Particle Pollution and Prevention (LAP3), Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China 5School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing 210044, China 6Pudong New Area Environmental Monitoring Station, Shanghai 200135, China Correspondence: Yanlin Zhang (
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