Insight into the Global Distribution and Chemical Composition of PM2.5 from the SPARTAN Global Aerosol Network

Crystal Lynn May Weagle1, Graydon Snider2, Kalaivani Murdymootoo2, Amanda Ring2, Yvonne Ritchie2, Emily M Stone2, Ainsley Walsh2, Clement Akoshile3, Nguyen Xuan Anh4, Jeff Brook5, Jinlu Dong6, Derek Griffith7, Kebin He8, Brent Holben9, Ralph A Kahn10, Nofel Lagrosas11, Puji Lestari12, Zongwei Ma13, Amit Misra14, Eduardo Quel15, Abdus Salam16, Bret A Schichtel17, Lior Segey18, Sachchida Nand Tripathi19, Chien Wang20, Chao Yu21, Qiang Zhang22, Yuxuan Zhang23, Michael Brauer24, Aaron Cohen25, Mark David Gibson2, Yang Liu26, Jose Vanderlei Martins27, Yinon Rudich28 and Randall Martin29, (1)Washington University in St Louis, Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering, St. Louis, United States, (2)Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada, (3)University of Ilorin, Department of Physics, Ilorin, Nigeria, (4)VietNam Academy of Science and Technology, Institute of Geophysics, Hanoi, Vietnam, (5)Environment Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada, (6)Tsinghua University, Center for Earth System Science, Beijing, China, (7)Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Pretoria, South Africa, (8)Collaborative Innovation Center for Regional Environmental Quality, Beijing, China, (9)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (10)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (11)Ateneo de Manila University, Manila Observatory, Quezon City, Philippines, (12)Institute of Technology Bandung, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Bandung, Indonesia, (13)Nanjing University, State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing, China, (14)Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Center for Environmental Science and Engineering, Kanpur, India, (15)Laser and Applications Research Center (CEILAP), UNIDEF (MINDEF-CONICET), Villa Martelli, Buenos Aires, Argentina, (16)University of Dhaka, Department of Chemistry, Dhaka, Bangladesh, (17)National Park Service, Air Resources Division, Denver, CO, United States, (18)Weizmann Institute of Science, Physics Core Facilities, Rehovot, Israel, (19)Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India, (20)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (21)Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, GA, United States, (22)Department of Earth System Science,Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, (23)Center for Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, (24)University of British Columbia, School of Population and Public Health, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (25)Health Effects Institute, Boston, MA, United States, (26)Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States, (27)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (28)Weizmann Institute of Science, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rehovot, Israel, (29)Dalhousie University, Physics and Atmospheric Science, Halifax, Canada
Scientific Team Name: SPARTAN Team