Load of heavy metals in the airborne dust particulates of an urban city of Central India

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 95, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 257-268

  Thakur, Manisha ^a   Kanti Deb, Manas ^a   Imai, S ^b   Suzuki, Y ^b   Ueki, K ^b   Hasegawa, A ^b  

^a PT RAVISHANKAR SHUKLA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b KOBE INSTITUTE OF HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Annual flux of metals; Deposition pattern; Dust fall analysis; Metal pollutants; meteorological parameters; source identification

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; HEAVY METALS; TOXICITY; URBAN PLANNING; WIND EFFECTS;

AIRBORNE DUST PARTICULATES; METAL POLLUTANTS;

DUST;

ANTIMONY; CHROMIUM; COPPER; HEAVY METAL; IRON; LEAD; MANGANESE; NICKEL; ZINC;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; DEPOSITION; DUST; POLLUTANT SOURCE; URBAN AREA;

AIRBORNE PARTICLE; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHY; HUMIDITY; INDIA; INDUSTRIAL AREA; MEASUREMENT; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; RESIDENTIAL HOME; TEMPERATURE; TRAFFIC; URBAN AREA; VELOCITY; WIND;

AIR POLLUTANTS; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INDIA; METALS, HEAVY; URBAN HEALTH;

ASIA; CHHATTISGARH; EURASIA; INDIA; RAIPUR; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 2942585429     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:EMAS.0000029907.96562.af     Document Type: Article

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