The role of traffic emissions from weekends' and weekdays' fine PM data in Milan

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 40, Issue 31, 2006, Pages 5998-6011

  Lonati, G ^a   Giugliano, M ^a   Cernuschi, S ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Airborne fine particles; Particle number concentration.; PM traffic emissions; Weekend effect

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; DUST; EXHAUST GASES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

AIRBORNE FINE PARTICLES; PARTICLE NUMBER CONCENTRATION; PM TRAFFIC EMISSIONS; WEEKEND EFFECT;

PARTICULATE EMISSIONS;

DUST; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PARTICULATE MATTER; PROBABILITY; TRAFFIC EMISSION;

ARTICLE; EXHAUST GAS; ITALY; METEOROLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASON; TRAFFIC;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; LOMBARDY; MILAN; MILANO [LOMBARDY]; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33748140732     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2005.12.033     Document Type: Article

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