Comparison of five methods for measuring particulate matter concentrations in cold winter climate

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 30, Issue 22, 1996, Pages 3873-3879

  Reponen, Auvo ^a   Ruuskanen, Juhani ^b   Mirme, Aadu ^c   Pärjälä, Erkki ^d   Hoek, Gerard ^e   Roemer, Willem ^e   Hosiokangas, Jari ^a   Pekkanen, Juha ^a   Jantunen, Matti ^a  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^d Environmental Protection Office   (Finland)

^e WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ambient aerosols; BS; Dichotomous sampler; Electrical aerosol spectrometer; Measurement; PM10; TSP

Indexed keywords

AIR MONITORING; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; COLD CLIMATE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WINTER;

AEROSOL; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; METHOD COMPARISON; PARTICULATE MATTER; SPECTROMETER; WINTER;

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HEALTH HAZARDS; SPECTROMETERS; STANDARDS;

BLACK SMOKE; COLD WINTER CLIMATE; DICHOTOMOUS SAMPLER; ELECTRICAL AEROSOL SPECTROMETER; TOTAL SUSPENDED PARTICULATES;

PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER);

EID: 0030302226     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/1352-2310(96)00073-8     Document Type: Article

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