Application of an Ir tracer to determine soot exposure to students commuting to school on Baltimore public buses

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1911-1919

  Wu, Charles C ^a   Suarez, Ana E ^a   Lin, Zhibo ^a   Kidwell, Christopher B ^a   Borgoul, Polina V ^a   Caffrey, Peter F ^a   Ondov, John M ^a   Sattler, Barbara ^b  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambient aerosol; Diesel soot; Environmental justice; Intentional tracer; Personal monitoring

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE; EXTRACTABLE ORGANIC MATTER; IRIDIUM TRACER;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; BUSES; CARBON; MONITORING;

SOOT;

CARBON; DIESEL FUEL; IRIDIUM;

COMMUTING; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SOOT; TRAFFIC EMISSIONS; URBAN POLLUTION;

ADOLESCENT; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; EXHAUST GAS; HIGH SCHOOL; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONAL MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOOT; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA;

USA, BALTIMORE;

EID: 0032102891     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1352-2310(97)00488-3     Document Type: Article

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