Substantial traffic emissions contribution to the global H2S budget

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 18, 2004, Pages

  Kourtidis, K ^a   Kelesis, A ^b   Maggana, M ^c   Petrakakis, M ^b  

^a Lab Atmosph Pollution   (Greece)

^b Environmental Department of the Municipality of Thessaloniki   (Greece)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

0322 Atmospheric composition and structure: Constituent sources and sinks; 0345 Atmospheric composition and structure: Pollution Urban and regional (0305); 0365 Atmospheric composition and structure: Troposphere composition and chemistry

Indexed keywords

AIR; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); HYDROGEN SULFIDE;

AMBIENT AIR; TRAFFIC EMISSION;

GEOPHYSICS;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS; TRAFFIC EMISSION;

EID: 10644248318     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020713     Document Type: Article

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