The Metropolitan Acid Aerosol Characterization Study: Results from the summer 1994 Washington, D.C. field study

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 105, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 826-834

  Suh, Helen H ^a   Nishioka, Yurika ^a   Allen, George A ^a   Koutrakis, Petros ^a   Burton, Robert M ^b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambient concentrations; Ammonia; Particulate matter; Population density; Spatial variation

Indexed keywords

ACID; AMMONIA; PROTON; SULFATE;

AEROSOL; ARTICLE; CITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MEASUREMENT; METEOROLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; SAMPLING; SUMMER; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; WIND;

EID: 0030663029     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.97105826     Document Type: Article

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