Factors influencing relationships between personal and ambient concentrations of gaseous and particulate pollutants

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 407, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3754-3765

  Brown, Kathleen Ward ^a   Sarnat, Jeremy A ^b   Suh, Helen H ^a   Coull, Brent A ^c   Koutrakis, Petros ^a  

^a Exposure   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Exposure; Nitrogen dioxide; Ozone; PM2.5; Sulfate

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT CONCENTRATIONS; CO-POLLUTANTS; ELEMENTAL CARBONS; EXPOSURE; EXPOSURE ASSESSMENTS; EXPOSURE FACTORS; INDOOR CONCENTRATIONS; INDOOR SOURCES; MIXED EFFECTS; MIXED MODELS; NATIONAL EXPOSURE RESEARCH LABORATORIES; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; PARTICULATE MATTERS; PERSONAL EXPOSURES; PM2.5; REGRESSION MODELS; SULFATE; TIME SPENT; TRAFFIC-RELATED; U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCIES;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESES; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY MEASUREMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY; EXPOSURE CONTROLS; GAS STOVES; NITROGEN; NITROGEN OXIDES; OZONE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESEARCH LABORATORIES; SULFUR; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

PERMANENT MAGNETS;

CARBON; NITROGEN OXIDE; OZONE; SULFATE; SULFUR OXIDE;

AMBIENT AIR; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; NITROGEN DIOXIDE;

AIR CONDITIONING; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GAS; HOME; HUMAN; HUMIDIFIER; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUMMER; TRAFFIC; UNITED STATES; WINTER;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HOUSING; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; PARTICULATE MATTER; SEASONS;

EID: 65049088746     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2009.02.016     Document Type: Article

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