Elemental composition of tropospheric aerosols in Hanoi, Vietnam and Nairobi, Kenya

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 341, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 241-249

  Gatari, Michael ^a,b   Wagner, Annemarie ^a   Boman, Johan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic air pollution; EDXRF; Fine particles

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; AIR POLLUTION; BIOMASS; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPOSITION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE; TROPOSPHERE; X RAY ANALYSIS;

AIRBORNE PARTICLES; ELEMENTAL COMPOSITION; ENERGY DEMAND; ENERGY PRODUCTION;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

CHLORINE; IRON; LEAD; POTASSIUM; SULFUR; TOXIC SUBSTANCE;

AEROSOL; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CENTRIFUGE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CITY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENERGY; KENYA; PARTICLE SIZE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; VIET NAM; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; X RAY FLUORESCENCE;

AFRICA; ASIA; EAST AFRICA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; HANOI; KENYA; NAIROBI [KENYA]; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; VIET NAM; WORLD;

EID: 17144371884     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2004.09.031     Document Type: Article

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