Spatial concentration distributions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides in Patras, Greece, in a winter period

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 135, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 163-180

  Yannopoulos, Panayotis C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Bag sampling technique; Monitoring management; Nitrogen oxides correlations to traffic; Sulfur dioxide correlation to traffic; Temporal and spatial averaging; Urban development

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; MONITORING; NITROGEN OXIDES; OPTIMIZATION; POLLUTION DETECTION; SAMPLING; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

BAG SAMPLING METHOD; POLLUTION LEVELS;

AIR POLLUTION;

NITROGEN OXIDE; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); NITROGEN OXIDES; OPTIMIZATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SULFUR DIOXIDE; WINTER;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; AIR SAMPLING; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CASE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GREECE; RANDOMIZATION; TRAFFIC; VALIDATION PROCESS; WIND; WINTER;

AIR POLLUTANTS; CITIES; COLD; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GREECE; NITROGEN OXIDES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASONS; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

ACHAEA; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; PATRAS; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WESTERN GREECE;

EID: 36248984734     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-007-9641-2     Document Type: Article

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