Ambient air quality of two metropolitan cities of Pakistan and its health implications

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 35, Issue 34, 2001, Pages 5971-5978

  Parekh, Pravin P ^a,b   Khwaja, Haider A ^a,b   Khan, Adil R ^b   Naqvi, Ronaq R ^c   Malik, Abdul ^c   Shah, Sajjad A ^d   Khan, Khalid ^c   Hussain, Ghazanfar ^c  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KARACHI   (Pakistan)

^d Capital Development Authority   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Asia; Atmospheric aerosols; TSP; Urban pollution

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SAMPLING;

TSP CONCENTRATION;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

AIR QUALITY; HEALTH RISK; PARTICULATE MATTER; URBAN ATMOSPHERE;

AEROSOL; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY CONTROL; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; CITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; NONHUMAN; PAKISTAN; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; TRAFFIC; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION;

PAKISTAN;

EID: 0034746907     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1352-2310(00)00569-0     Document Type: Article

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