Five inter-linked topics were studied within the ELIPSE programme, which provide the first 'snapshot' picture of airborne pollution associated with a busy Irish Harbour location: 1. An aerosol time-of-flight mass spectrometer and a particle-number counter were co-located with a suite of real-time monitoring instrumentation at the Tivoli Docks in the Port of Cork, Ireland. The data provided novel evidence for a unique ship exhaust class containing internally mixed elemental carbon/organic carbon, sodium, calcium, iron, vanadium, nickel and sulfate. The measurements indicated that the vast majority of freshly emitted ship exhaust particles lie in the ultrafine mode (<100 nm diameter). Subsequent source apportionment analysis showed that the measured shipping traffic contributes only 1.5% to the ambient PM2.5 mass collected but 18% to the total number of particles detected. This value is second only to road traffic (with a contribution of 42%). Thus, it appears that local shipping traffic can contribute significantly to local ambient particle number in the inhalable, deeppenetrating, 20- to 600-nm size range. 2. Domestic solid-fuel burning was found to comprise an important contribution to Harbour airborne pollution even in the summer period. The data showed that the organic composition of the collected aerosols was mainly associated with anthropogenic and biogenic emissions from local sources. 1. PM2.5, PM with diameter less than 2.5 µm. 2. ELIPSE, Environmental Linkages of In-Port Ship Emissions of Particulate Matter, their Chemical Analysis and Effects on Health. viii 3. On average, approximately 50% by mass of the chemical content of PM2.5 was unambiguously identified in this study. The major inorganic constituents identified in the PM were sulfate, ammonium, nitrate, chloride and sodium ions, which were mainly attributable to sea salt and secondary inorganic aerosols from regional sources. 4. By scrutinising the data sets gathered at Tivoli Docks and Haulbowline Naval Base using various independent source apportionment techniques, the existence and location of a specific sulfate source was established, which appears to be located east south-east and south-east of the receptor site. In this general direction lies the industrialised Little Island, the ESB power plant located at Aghada, and the Whitegate oil refinery. 5. Mostly all elements detected exhibit higher ambient concentration levels at Tivoli Docks than at Haulbowline Naval Base in line with a general dilution pattern of pollution sources generally observed across the Harbour. However, the average ambient concentrations for chromium and cadmium were higher at Haulbowline Naval Base than at Tivoli Docks. Chromium and cadmium were also found to be strongly correlated, which would indicate a common source. The findings indicate a possible contribution from re-suspended waste material associated with a disused steel manufacturing facility located on the island.

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SAFER-Data Display URL	https://eparesearch.epa.ie/safer/iso19115/display?isoID=210
Resource Keywords	Air quality monitoring, PM2.5, source apportionment, single particle mass spectrometry
EPA/ERTDI/STRIVE Project Code	2006-EH-MS-49
EPA/ERTDI/STRIVE Project Theme	Air Quality
Resource Availability:	Public-Open
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Project Start Date	Thursday 1st February 2007 (01-02-2007)
Earliest Recorded Date within any attached datasets or digital objects	Sunday 1st April 2007 (01-04-2007)
Most Recent Recorded Date within any attached datasets or digital objects	Friday 1st May 2009 (01-05-2009)
Published on SAFER	Monday 30th May 2011 (30-05-2011)
Date of Last Edit	Monday 27th June 2011 at 17:09:29 (27-06-2011)
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A 28-month PM, aerosol and trace gas monitoring programme was performed at two selected sites, one in the Upper Harbour (Tivoli Docks and Estates) and the other Mid-Harbour (located at the Naval Base on Haulbowline Island). Two sampling sites were selected to represent environments with local pollutant sources that included shipping contributions. The City of Cork houses the second biggest port in Ireland, being located in one of the largest natural harbours in the world. The Port of Cork controls a number of facilities situated in the Harbour. Of these, Tivoli Docks and Estates located in the Upper Harbour and Ringaskiddy Deep Water Port located in the Mid-Harbour are the most commercially important. Haulbowline Naval Base (51º 50' 30" N, 8° 18' 25" W) Tivoli Docks and Estates (51° 54' 05" N, 8° 24' 38" W)

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