Monitoring of black carbon and size-segregated particle number concentrations at 9-m and 65-m distances from a major road in Helsinki

Boreal Environment Research

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 295-309

  Pakkanen, Tuomo A ^a   Mäkelä, Timo ^a   Hillamo, Risto E ^a   Virtanen, Annele ^b   Rönkkö, Topi ^b   Keskinen, Jorma ^b   Pirjola, Liisa ^c,d   Parviainen, Heikki ^c   Hussein, Tareq ^d   Hämeri, Kaarle ^d,e  

^a FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^c HAAGA HELIA UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^e FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

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EID: 33749160946     PISSN: 12396095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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