Millennium-long damage to building materials in London

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 407, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1354-1361

  Brimblecombe, Peter ^a   Grossi, Carlota M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Blackening; Climate change; Corrosion; Metals; Stone; Surface recession; Weathering

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; BUILDING MATERIALS; BUILDINGS; CLIMATOLOGY; CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT; COPPER; COPPER CORROSION; CORROSION; DETERIORATION; EROSION; PITTING; POLLUTION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SOIL MECHANICS; SULFUR DIOXIDE; WEATHERING;

19TH CENTURIES; 20TH CENTURIES; BLACKENING; CARBONATE STONES; DAMAGE FUNCTIONS; DAMAGE RATES; DEPOSITION VELOCITIES; DIFFERENT DAMAGES; ELEMENTAL CARBON CONCENTRATIONS; FUTURE CLIMATES; MODEL OUTPUTS; PARTICULATE MATTERS; STONE; SURFACE RECESSION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CARBONIC ACID; COPPER; IRON; LIMESTONE; STEEL; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL; CORROSION; LIMESTONE; WEATHERING;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; BUILDING MATERIAL; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORROSION; POLLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED KINGDOM;

AIR POLLUTANTS; CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; LONDON;

EID: 57049141470     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.09.037     Document Type: Article

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