Particulate pollution capture by urban trees: Effect of species and windspeed

Global Change Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 995-1003

  Beckett, K Paul ^a   Freer Smith, P H ^b   Taylor, Gail ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b FOREST RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Deposition velocity; Particulates; PM10; Stokes number; Trapping efficiency; Urban trees

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTION CONTROL; TRAPPING; TREE; URBAN AREA; WIND VELOCITY;

ACER; ACER CAMPESTRE; ARIA; CONIFEROPHYTA; CUPRESSOCYPARIS LEYLANDII; CUPRESSUS; PINUS NIGRA; POPULUS BEROLINENSIS; POPULUS DELTOIDES; POPULUS NIGRA; SORBUS; SORBUS INTERMEDIA;

EID: 0034425673     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2486.2000.00376.x     Document Type: Article

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