Intake fraction distributions for benzene from vehicles in the Helsinki metropolitan area

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 301-310

  Loh, Miranda M ^a   Soares, Joana ^b   Karppinen, Ari ^b   Kukkonen, Jaakko ^b   Kangas, Leena ^b   Riikonen, Kari ^b   Kousa, Anu ^c   Asikainen, Arja ^a   Jantunen, Matti J ^a  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c Helsinki Metropolitan Area Council   (Finland)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Benzene; Exposure; Intake fraction; Traffic

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; BENZENE; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; NITROGEN OXIDES; POLLUTION; TOXIC MATERIALS;

ACTIVITY PATTERNS; ANNUAL MEANS; BOX MODELS; DISPERSION MODELS; EXPOSURE; HELSINKI; HUMAN CARCINOGENS; INTAKE FRACTION; METROPOLITAN AREAS; PARTICULATE MATTERS; POPULATION EXPOSURES; REACTIVE AGENTS; SPATIAL MODELS; STREET CANYONS; TEMPORAL INFORMATIONS; TRAFFIC; URBAN AREAS; VEHICULAR TRAFFICS;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BENZENE; CARCINOGEN; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; METROPOLITAN AREA; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STREET CANYON;

ETELA SUOMEN; EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; HELSINKI; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 57949095275     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2008.09.082     Document Type: Article

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