Lack of spatial variation of endotoxin in ambient particulate matter across a German metropolitan area

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 39, Issue 36, 2005, Pages 6931-6941

  Morgenstern, Verena ^a,b   Carty, Cara L ^a,c   Gehring, Ulrike ^a,d   Cyrys, Josef ^a,b   Bischof, Wolfgang ^e   Heinrich, Joachim ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Airborne endotoxin; Bacteria; GIS; Outdoor; Particulate matter

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; TOXIC MATERIALS; URBAN PLANNING;

AIRBORNE ENDOTOXIN; ENDOTOXIN; OUTDOOR; POTENTIAL SOURCES;

PARTICULATE EMISSIONS;

ENDOTOXIN; POLITEF;

AIR SAMPLING; AMBIENT AIR; GIS; METROPOLITAN AREA; PARTICULATE MATTER; SPATIAL VARIATION; URBAN ATMOSPHERE;

AIR MONITORING; AIR SAMPLING; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DYNAMICS; FILTER; FRACTIONATION; GEOGRAPHY; GEOMETRY; INFORMATION SYSTEM; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URBAN AREA;

BAVARIA; CENTRAL EUROPE; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; MUNICH; WORLD;

EID: 26844468183     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2005.08.022     Document Type: Article

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