A Global Perspective on Air Quality: Intercontinental Transport and Linkages with Climate

EM: Air and Waste Management Association's Magazine for Environmental Managers

Volumn , Issue DEC., 2003, Pages 13-22

  Fiore, Arlene ^a   Holloway, Tracey ^b   Hastings, Meredith Galanter ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPISODIC ADVECTION; PRECURSORS;

AEROSOLS; AIR POLLUTION; GAS EMISSIONS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HEALTH RISKS; OZONE; TROPOSPHERE;

AIR QUALITY;

EID: 1442357039     PISSN: 10889981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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