The longitudinal dependence of black carbon concentration on traffic volume in an urban environment

Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association

Volumn 58, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 928-939

  Decastro, B Rey ^a,c,d   Wang, Lu ^a   Mihalic, Jana N ^a   Breysse, Patrick N ^a   Geyh, Alison S ^a   Buckley, Timothy J ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Westat ^*

^d WESTAT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; CARBON; HIGHWAY ENGINEERING; METEOROLOGY; VEHICLES; WIND;

ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICTS; CONTINUOUS MONITORING; CORRELATED ERRORS; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; MODIFYING EFFECTS; TIME SERIES MODELING; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS;

URBAN GROWTH;

CARBON;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CITY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENT; ERROR; HEIGHT; HIGHWAY; METEOROLOGY; MODEL; MONITORING; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASON; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TRAFFIC; URBAN AREA; VELOCITY; WEATHER; WIND; WORKING TIME;

EID: 47549106902     PISSN: 10962247     EISSN: 21622906     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3155/1047-3289.58.7.928     Document Type: Article

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