Relationship and variations of aerosol number and PM10 mass concentrations in a highly polluted urban environment - New Delhi, India

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 425-433

  Monkkonen P ^a   Uma, R ^c   Srinivasan, D ^c   Koponen, I K ^a   Lehtinen, K E J ^a   Hameri K ^a,b   Suresh, R ^c   Sharma, V P ^c   Kulmala, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

^c THE ENERGY AND RESOURCES INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

India; Mass concentration; Number concentration; Particulate Matter (PM10); Urban Aerosols

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; CARBON MONOXIDE; COAGULATION; FOSSIL FUELS; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

BIOFUELS;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

CARBON MONOXIDE; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; SULFATE;

AEROSOL; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; URBAN ATMOSPHERE;

AEROSOL; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; INDIA; MASS; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; TIME; URBAN AREA;

ASIA; DELHI; EURASIA; INDIA; NEW DELHI; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 0344945677     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2003.09.071     Document Type: Article

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