Assessment of airborne particulate levels in Spain in relation to the new EU-directive

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 35, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2001, Pages

  Artíñano, Begoña ^a   Querol, Xavier ^b   Salvador, Pedro ^a   Rodríguez, Sergio ^b   Alonso, Diana G ^a   Alastuey, Andrés ^b  

^a CIEMAT   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Air quality; Air quality networks; Atmospheric particles; Natural particles sources; PM10

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034966153     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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