The strange career of the Ringelmann smoke chart

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 106, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 11-26

  Uekoetter, Frank ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Air pollution measurements; Coal smoke; Ringelmann chart; Ringelmann scale; Smoke abatement; Smoke nuisance; Social construction of measurement

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; AIR QUALITY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; PUBLIC POLICY;

AIR POLLUTION MEASUREMENTS; INSTRUCTIVE MODELS; SMOKE EMISSIONS;

SMOKE ABATEMENT;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; POLLUTION MONITORING; SMOKE;

ACCURACY; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; EXHAUST GAS; HISTORY; MEASUREMENT; MODEL; POLLUTION CONTROL; RINGELMANN CHART; SMOKE; TECHNOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

AIR POLLUTION; ALGORITHMS; COAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION; UNITED STATES;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 19444374396     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-005-0756-z     Document Type: Article

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