Articles | Volume 18, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-2891-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-2891-2025
Development and technical paper
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19 May 2025
Development and technical paper |  | 19 May 2025

Positive matrix factorization of large real-time atmospheric mass spectrometry datasets using error-weighted randomized hierarchical alternating least squares

Benjamin C. Sapper, Sean Youn, Daven K. Henze, Manjula Canagaratna, Harald Stark, and Jose L. Jimenez

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Positive matrix factorization (PMF) has been used by atmospheric scientists to extract underlying factors present in large datasets. This paper presents a new technique for error-weighted PMF that drastically reduces the computational costs of previously developed algorithms. We use this technique to deliver interpretable factors and solution diagnostics from an atmospheric chemistry dataset.
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