Wood burning impact on PM10 in three Austrian regions

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 43, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 2186-2195

  Caseiro, Alexandre ^a,b   Bauer, Heidi ^a   Schmidl, Christoph ^a   Pio, Casimiro A ^b   Puxbaum, Hans ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Austria; Levoglucosan; PM10; Wood burning

Indexed keywords

ALPINE REGIONS; AMBIENT AIRS; ANHYDROSUGARS; ANNUAL CYCLES; ANNUAL TRENDS; ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENTS; AUSTRIA; AUXILIARY HEATING; BIOMASS-BURNING; CENTRAL EUROPE; CHARACTERISATION; COLD SEASONS; CONSTANT RATIOS; FINE PARTICLES; GALACTOSAN; HEAVY TRAFFICS; LEVOGLUCOSAN; MASS RATIOS; ORGANIC FRACTIONS; ORGANIC MATERIALS; PARTICULATE MATTERS; PM10; RESIDENTIAL SITES; RURAL SITES; URBAN SITES; WINTER MONTHS; WOOD BURNING; WOOD SMOKES; WOOD STOVES;

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOMASS; COMBUSTION; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); FIRE HAZARDS; ORGANIC CARBON; PERMANENT MAGNETS; POTASSIUM; SMOKE; STOVES; THERMOCHEMISTRY;

WOOD;

BIOMASS BURNING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); LOADING; PARTICULATE MATTER; SMOKE; URBAN AREA; WOOD;

AUSTRIA; BIOMASS; CARBON; COMBUSTION; CONCENTRATION; HAZARDS; LEVOGLUCOSAN; MAGNETS; POTASSIUM; SMOKE; THERMOCHEMISTRY; WOOD;

AUSTRIA; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 62749186887     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2009.01.012     Document Type: Article

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