Particulate matter concentrations and elemental analysis in four cities of northwestern Greece

Fresenius Environmental Bulletin

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 508-516

  Triantafyllou, Athanasios G ^a   Garas, Stylianos ^a   Zoras, Stamatis ^a   Evagelopoulos, Vasilis ^a   Asvesta, Argiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN MACEDONIA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Air quality; Elemental analysis; Lignite power plants; Monitoring; Particulate matter

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; LIGNITE; MONITORING; PAH; PARTICULATE MATTER; POWER PLANT; URBAN AREA;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FLORINA; GREECE; GREVENA; KASTORIA; KOZANI; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WESTERN MACEDONIA;

EID: 34249296725     PISSN: 10184619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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