Indoor, outdoor, and regional summer and winter concentrations of PM10, PM2.5, SO42-, H+, NH4+, NO3-, NH3, and nitrous acid in homes with and without kerosene space heaters

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 223-231

  Leaderer, Brian P ^a   Naeher, Luke ^a,c   Jankun, Thomas ^a   Balenger, Kathleen ^a   Holford, Theodore R ^a   Toth, Cindy ^a   Sullivan, Jim ^b   Wolfson, Jack M ^b   Koutrakis, Petros ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Gas stoves; Indoor outdoor concentrations; Kerosene heaters; Particle air pollution

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; KEROSENE; NITRATE; NITROUS ACID; POLITEF; PROTON; SULFATE; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

ACIDITY; AEROSOL; AIR CONDITIONING; AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HEATING; HOME; HUMAN; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SMOKING; SUMMER; UNITED STATES; WINTER;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 0032918635     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.99107223     Document Type: Article

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