Air quality in postunification Erfurt, East Germany: Associating changes in pollutant concentrations with changes in emissions

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 109, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 325-333

  Ebelt, Stefanie ^a   Brauer, Michael ^a   Cyrys, Josef ^b   Tuch, Thomas ^b   Kreyling, Wolfgang G ^b   Wichmann, H Erich ^b   Heinrich, Joachim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Coal combustion; Environmental exposure; Motor vehicles; Particles; Sulfur dioxide; Ultrafine particles

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE; COAL; DIESEL FUEL; NITRIC ACID; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR QUALITY; AIRBORNE PARTICLE; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; COMBUSTION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC; HEATING; MEASUREMENT; MOTOR VEHICLE; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENTIAL HOME; WINTER;

EID: 0035002272     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.01109325     Document Type: Article

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