Threshold exceedances and cumulative ozone exposure indices at tropical suburban site

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Beig, G ^a   Ghude, Sachin D ^a   Polade, S D ^a   Tyagi, B ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL METEOROLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; HEALTH RISKS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

AIR-MASS CLASSIFICATION; BACK-AIR TRAJECTORIES; OZONE EXPOSURE INDEX;

OZONE LAYER;

AIR MASS; AIR QUALITY; AMBIENT AIR; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; OZONE; SUBURBAN AREA; TROPICAL REGION;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; MAHARASHTRA; PUNE; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 40849094448     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL031434     Document Type: Article

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