Variability of apparent particle density of an urban aerosol

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 37, Issue 19, 2003, Pages 4336-4342

  Pitz, Mike ^a,b   Cyrys, Josef ^a,b   Karg, Erwin ^b   Wiedensohler, Alfred ^c   Wichmann, H Erich ^a,b   Heinrich, Joachim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR TROPOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY CONTROL (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); OSCILLATIONS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

PARTICLE DENSITY;

AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL; DENSITY; DIEL VARIATION; DIURNAL VARIATION; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; URBAN ATMOSPHERE;

AEROSOL; AIR MONITORING; AIR QUALITY; AIRBORNE PARTICLE; ARTICLE; DENSITY; PARTICLE SIZE; SPECTROMETRY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

AEROSOLS; AIR POLLUTANTS; CITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PARTICLE SIZE; PERIODICITY; SMOKE; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

GERMANY;

EID: 0141890029     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es034322p     Document Type: Article

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