Atmospheric pollution caused by particulate metals in central Taiwan

Environmental Forensics

Volumn 8, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 63-73

  Fang, Guor Cheng ^a   Wu, Yuh Shen ^a   Lee, Wen Jhy ^b   Chou, Te Yen ^a   Lin, I Cherng ^a  

^a HUNGKUANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Dry deposition flux; Metals; Particle sizes; Taiwan EPA standard

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847770936     PISSN: 15275922     EISSN: 15275930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15275920601180586     Document Type: Article

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