Exposure to Airborne Particulate Matter in the Ambient, Indoor, and Occupational Environments

Clinics in Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 747-771

  Hopke, Philip K ^a   Rossner, Alan ^a  

^a CLARKSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; AIR PARTICLE CONTROL; AIR QUALITY STANDARD; AIR SAMPLING; AMBIENT AIR; ASIA; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EUROPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NEW ZEALAND; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; REVIEW; UNITED STATES; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 33750842912     PISSN: 15260046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coem.2006.08.001     Document Type: Review

References (43)

1. US Environmental Protection Agency. Air quality criteria for particulate matter and sulfur oxides. Report no. EPA-600/8-82-029aF-cF. 3v (1982), Office of Health and Environmental Assessment, Environmental Criteria and Assessment Office, Research Triangle Park (NC)
2. US Environmental Protection Agency. Air quality criteria for particulate matter. Report no. EPA/600/P-95/001aF-cF. 3v (1996), National Center for Environmental Assessment-RTP Office, Research Triangle Park (NC)
3. US Environmental Protection Agency. Review of the national ambient air quality standards for particulate matter: policy assessment of scientific and technical information. Report no. EPA/452/R-96-013 (1996), Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, Research Triangle Park (NC)
4. European Union. Council directive 1999/30/EC of 22 April, 1999 relating to limit values for sulphur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide and oxides of nitrogen, particulate matter and lead in ambient air (1999), The Council of the European Union, Brussels
5. US Environmental Protection Agency. Air quality data analysis technical support document for the proposed interstate air quality rule (2004), Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, Research Triangle Park (NC)
6. Van Dingenen R., Raes F., Putaud J.P., et al. A European aerosol phenomenology. I. Physical characteristics of particulate matter at kerbside, urban, rural and background sites in Europe. Atmos Environ 36 (2004) 2561-2577
7. Health Effects Institute. Health effects of outdoor air pollution in developing countries of Asia: a literature review. Special Report 15 (2004), Health Effects Institute, Boston (MA)
8. Smodis B. Applied environmental metrology for studying health-pollution interactions. J Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry 259 (2004) 181-185
9. Hopke P.K., Xie Y., Raunemaa T., et al. Characterization of Gent stacked filter unit PM10 sampler. Aerosol Sci Technol 27 (1997) 726-735
10. Begum B.A., Biswas S.K., and Hopke P.A. Temporal variations and spatial distribution of ambient PM2.2 and PM10 concentrations in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Sci Total Environ 358 1-3 (2006) 36-45
11. Malm W.C., Sisler J.F., Huffman D., et al. Spatial and seasonal trends in particle concentration and optical extinction in the United States. J Geophys Res 99 (1994) 1347-1370
12. Kim E., Hopke P.K., and Qin Y. Estimation of organic carbon blank values and error structures of the speciation trends network data for source apportionment. J Air Waste Manage Assoc 55 (2005) 1190-1199
13. Kim E., Hopke P.K., Pinto J.P., et al. Spatial variability of fine particle mass, components, and source contributions during the regional air pollution study in St. Louis. Environ Sci Technol 39 (2005) 4172-4179
14. Götschi T., Hazenkamp-von Arx M.E., Heinrich J., et al. Elemental composition and reflectance of ambient fine particles at 21 European locations. Atmos Environ 39 (2005) 5947-5958
15. th International Clean Air Conference. Mitcham, Victoria, Australia, November 27-30, 2000. pp. 485-490.
16. Wichmann H.-E., Spix C., Tuch T., et al. Daily mortality and fine and ultrafine particles in Erfurt, Germany. I. Role of particle number and particle mass (2000), Health Effects Institute, Cambridge (MA)
17. Raes F., Van Dingenen R., Cuevas E., et al. Observations of aerosols in the free troposphere and marine boundary layer of the subtropical Northeast Atlantic: discussion of process determining their size distributions. J Geophys Res 102 (1997) 21315-21328
18. O'Dowd C.D., Geever M., Hill M.K., et al. New particle formation: nucleation rates and spatial scales in the clean marine coastal environment. Geophys Res Lett 25 (1998) 1661-1664
19. Hegg D.A., Radke L.F., and Hobbs P.V. Measurements of Aitken nuclei and cloud condensation nuclei in the marine atmosphere and their relation to the DMS-cloud-climate hypothesis. J Geophys Res 96 (1991) 18727-18733
20. Wiedensohler A., Covert D.S., Swietlicki E., et al. Occurrence of an ultrafine particle mode less than 20 nm in diameter in the marine boundary layer during Arctic summer and autumn. Tellus 48B (1996) 213-222
21. 2O particles in rural, urban, and marine conditions. Atmospheric Research 46 (1998) 321-347
22. Kerminen V., and Wexler A.S. The occurrence of sulfuric acid-water nucleation in plumes: urban environment. Tellus 48B (1996) 65-82
23. Mäkelä J.M., Aalto P., Jokinen V., et al. Observation of ultrafine aerosol particle formation and growth in boreal forest. Geophys Res Lett 24 (1997) 1219-1222
24. Hussein T., Puustinen A., Aalto P.P., et al. Urban aerosol number size distributions. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 4 (2004) 391-411
25. Woo K.S., Chen D.R., Pui D.Y.H., et al. Measurement of Atlanta aerosol size distributions: observations of ultrafine particle events. Aerosol Sci Technol 34 (2001) 75-87
26. McMurry P.H., and Woo K.S. Size distributions of 3-100 nm urban Atlanta aerosols: measurement and observations. J Aerosol Med 15 (2002) 169-178
27. Stanier C., Khlystov A., and Pandis S.N. Ambient aerosol size distributions and number concentrations measured during the Pittsburgh Air Quality Study (PAQS). Atmos Environ 38 (2004) 3275-3284
28. Jeong C.H., Hopke P.K., Chalulpa D., et al. Characteristics of nucleation and growth events of ultrafine particles measured in Rochester, NY. Environ Sci Technol 38 (2004) 1933-1940
29. Sakurai H., Park K., McMurry P.H., et al. Size-dependent mixing characteristics of volatile and nonvolatile components in diesel exhaust aerosols. Environ Sci Technol 37 (2003) 5487-5495
30. Walton W.H., and Vincent J.H. Aerosol instrument in occupational hygiene: an historical perspective. Aerosol Science Technology 28 (1998) 417-438
31. Miller F., Gardner D., and Graham J. Size considerations for establishing a standard for inhalable particles. J Air Pollut Control Assoc 29 (1979) 610-615
32. International Standards Organization. Air quality particle size fraction definitions for health-related sampling. Technical report ISO/TR/7708-1983(revised 1992) (1983), International Standards Organization, Geneva (Switzerland)
33. American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienist. (2005) Threshold limit values for chemical substances and physical agents and biological exposure indices. Cincinnati (OH): American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienist; 2005. p. 74-5.
34. Vincent J.H. Sampling criteria for inhalable fraction. In: Vincent J.H. (Ed). Particle size-selective sampling for particulate air contaminants (1999), ACGIH Worldwide, Cincinnati (OH) 51-53
35. Rappaport S. Assessment of long-term exposure to toxic substances in air. Ann Occup Hyg 35 (1991) 61-121
36. Mulhausen J.R., and Damiano J. Strategy for assessing and managing occupational exposures (1998), AIHA, Fairfax (VA) p. 1-39
37. Maynard A., and Maynard R. A derived association between ambient aerosol surface area and excess mortality using historic time series data. Atmos Environ 36 (2002) 5561-5567
38. Day G., Hoover M., Stefaniak A., et al. Bioavailability of beryllium oxide particles: an in vitro study in the murine j774a.1 macrophage cell line model. Exp Lung Res 31 3 (2005) 341-360
39. Gorny R., Reponen T., Grinshpun S., et al. Source strength of fungal spore aerosolization from moldy building material. Atmos Environ 35 (2004) 4853-4862
40. Lentz T., Rice C., Succop P., et al. Pulmonary deposition modeling with airborne fiber exposure data: a study of workers manufacturing refractory ceramic fibers. Appl Occup Environ Hyg 18 (2003) 278-288
41. Fayerweather W., Eastes W., Cereghini R., et al. Quantitative risk assessment of durable glass fibers. Inhal Toxicol 14 6 (2002) 553-568
42. Walker A.M., Maxim L.D., and Utell M. Risk analysis for mortality from respiratory tumors in a cohort of refractory ceramic fiber workers. Regul Toxicol Pharmacol 35 1 (2002) 95-104
43. Lundgren DA, Burton RM. Effect of particle size distribution on the cut point between fine and coarse ambient mass fractions. In: Phalen RF, Bates DV, editors. Proceedings of the colloguium on particulate air pollution and human mortality and morbidity. Inhal Toxicol 1995;7:131-48.