Comparing air quality in Italy, Germany and Poland using BC indexes

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 42, Issue 36, 2008, Pages 8412-8421

  Bodnar, Olha ^b   Cameletti, Michela ^a   Fassò, Alessandro ^a   Schmid, Wolfgang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGAMO   (Italy)

^b EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY VIADRINA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Environmental time series; Network heterogeneity index; Particulate matters; Tropospheric ozone; Unbalanced monitoring networks

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; HEALTH RISKS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; OZONE; POLLUTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSOR NETWORKS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ENVIRONMENTAL TIME SERIES; NETWORK HETEROGENEITY INDEX; PARTICULATE MATTERS; TROPOSPHERIC OZONE; UNBALANCED MONITORING NETWORKS;

AIR POLLUTION;

BENZENE; CARBON MONOXIDE; NITROGEN DIOXIDE;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; TIME SERIES; TROPOSPHERE;

AIR MONITORING; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; COMBUSTION; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH HAZARD; MEDICAL RECORD; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAFFIC;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; ITALY; POLAND; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 54349096045     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2008.08.005     Document Type: Article

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