Indoor and outdoor particulate matter concentrations at schools in the Athens area

Indoor and Built Environment

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 55-61

  Diapouli, E ^a   Chaloulakou, A ^a   Spyrellis, N ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Children's exposure; Indoors; Outdoors; Particulate matter (PM)

Indexed keywords

AIR MONITOR; AIR MONITORING; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; GRAVIMETRY; GREECE; HUMAN; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; WINTER;

EID: 33846547527     PISSN: 1420326X     EISSN: 14230070     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1420326X06074836     Document Type: Article

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