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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">EGUsphere</journal-id>
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<journal-title>EGUsphere</journal-title>
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<publisher><publisher-name>Copernicus Publications</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/egusphere-2026-2473</article-id>
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<article-title>Non-Target Analysis of Atmospheric Organic Aerosols as a Tool to Discriminate Anthropogenic Contribution in Mixed Air Masses during the ACROSS campaign</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Karbach</surname>
<given-names>Niklas</given-names>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Pouyes</surname>
<given-names>Pauline</given-names>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3">
<sup>3</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Perraudin</surname>
<given-names>Emilie</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3">
<sup>3</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Villenave</surname>
<given-names>Eric</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3">
<sup>3</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Hoffmann</surname>
<given-names>Thorsten</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0939-271X</ext-link>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>Department of Chemistry, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, 55128, Germany</addr-line>
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<label>2</label>
<addr-line>African Research Center on Air Quality and Climate, University Mohammed VI Polytechnic, Benguerir, 43150, Morocco</addr-line>
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<label>3</label>
<addr-line>University of Bordeaux, EPOC UMR 5803 CNRS, CS50023, 33615 Pessac cedex, France</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>13</day>
<month>05</month>
<year>2026</year>
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<volume>2026</volume>
<fpage>1</fpage>
<lpage>27</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2026 Niklas Karbach et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
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<license-p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this licence, visit <ext-link ext-link-type="uri"  xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</ext-link></license-p>
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<p>Organic aerosol is a major component in the particle phase of Earth&amp;acute;s atmosphere and has influences on quality of life, health and climate. In this study, a non-target analysis of the chemical composition of atmospheric organic aerosols using liquid chromatography-Orbitrap mass spectrometry (LC-Orbitrap MS) was conducted to differentiate anthropogenic and biogenic sources through unsupervised KMeans clustering. The ACROSS campaign dataset (consisting of 36 wind-characterized samples) identified 4,916 compounds (in the range 50&amp;ndash;400 m/z). Due to the location of the sampling site, the samples contain influences from the greater Paris area, as well as biogenic influences from the surrounding forest. K-means clustering, constrained to 2,917 compounds with strong wind-direction correlation, resolved distinct biogenic and anthropogenic clusters. Biogenic aerosols were dominated by CHO compounds (H/C: 1.2&amp;ndash;1.7; O/C: 0.15&amp;ndash;0.7), consistent with oxidized terpenes, while anthropogenic aerosols featured significant CHOS enrichment (H/C: 1.5&amp;ndash;2.2; O/C: 0.2&amp;ndash;1.0), including nitrogen-sulfur aromatics (e.g., C&lt;sub&gt;10&lt;/sub&gt;H&lt;sub&gt;18&lt;/sub&gt;NO&lt;sub&gt;8&lt;/sub&gt;S&lt;sup&gt;&amp;minus;&lt;/sup&gt; with nitro/sulfonic groups and aromatic fragments). The approach allows to quantify anthropogenic contribution in mixed air masses, demonstrating higher amounts of anthropogenic compounds ratios during Paris-influenced periods. Results validate wind-driven source apportionment for small sample size non-target studies, providing a transferable method for aerosol characterization.</p>
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