Gaseous and particulate air pollution in the Lanzhou Valley, China

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 320, Issue 2-3, 2004, Pages 163-176

  Ta, Wanquan ^a   Wang, Tao ^a   Xiao, Honglang ^a   Zhu, Xueyi ^b   Xiao, Zhen ^b  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b Environment Monitoring Station   (China)

Author keywords

Nitrogen oxides; PM10; Sulfur oxides; Total suspended particulate

Indexed keywords

DUST; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WIND EFFECTS;

TOTAL SUSPENDED PARTICULATES (TSP); WIND SPEEDS;

AIR POLLUTION;

NITRIC OXIDE;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; NITROGEN OXIDES; PARTICULATE MATTER; SEASONAL VARIATION; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CHINA; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DESERT; DUST; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; VELOCITY; WIND; WINTER;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GANSU; LANZHOU;

EID: 1542358063     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2003.08.026     Document Type: Article

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