Air quality assessment for Portugal

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 373, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 22-31

  Monteiro, A ^a   Miranda, A I ^a   Borrego, C ^a   Vautard, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^b LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Air quality; European legislation; Gas pollutants; Numerical modelling

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; STANDARDIZATION;

EUROPEAN LEGISLATION; GASEOUS POLLUTANTS; NUMERICAL MODELING; SULFUR DIOXIDES;

AIR QUALITY;

CARBON MONOXIDE; NITROGEN; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; OZONE; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATION; EUROPEAN UNION; NITROGEN; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OZONE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

AIR MONITORING; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; AIR QUALITY; AIR QUALITY CONTROL; AIR QUALITY STANDARD; AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; GAS DIFFUSION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; POLLUTION MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION;

AIR POLLUTANTS; CARBON MONOXIDE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; OZONE; PORTUGAL; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; PORTUGAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33846261934     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2006.10.014     Document Type: Article

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