Modelling of PM2.5 episodes in four cities of northwestern Greece

Fresenius Environmental Bulletin

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 306-313

  Zoras, Stamatis ^a   Triantafyllou, Athanasios G ^a   Evagelopoulos, Vasilis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN MACEDONIA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Air quality; Lignite; Modeling; PM2.5; Power plant; Trajectories

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; EMISSION INVENTORY; LIGNITE; METEOROLOGICAL HAZARD; MODELING; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTION; POWER PLANT; TRAJECTORY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FLORINA; GREECE; GREVENA; KASTORIA; KOZANI; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WESTERN MACEDONIA;

EID: 33645886945     PISSN: 10184619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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