Aerosol and NOX emission factors and submicron particle number size distributions in two road tunnels with different traffic regimes

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 2215-2230

  Imhof, D ^a   Weingartner, E ^a   Prevot A S H ^a   Ordonez C ^a   Kurtenbach, R ^b   Wiesen, P ^b   Rodler, J ^c   Sturm, P ^c   McCrae, I ^d   Ekstrom M ^e   Baltensperger, U ^a  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

^c GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^d TRANSPORT RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^e IVL SWEDISH ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; DIURNAL VARIATION; NITROGEN OXIDES; NUCLEATION; PARTICLE SIZE; SOOT; TRAFFIC EMISSION; TUNNEL;

AUSTRIA; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33745551379     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-6-2215-2006     Document Type: Article

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