Seasonal variation of water-soluble inorganic species in the coarse and fine atmospheric aerosols at Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms

Volumn 267, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 2897-2902

  Mkoma, Stelyus L ^a,b   Wang, Wan ^b   Maenhaut, Willy ^b  

^a SOKOINE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Tanzania)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Atmospheric aerosols; Ion chromatography; Size fractions; Tanzania; Water soluble ions

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL SAMPLES; ATMOSPHERIC PARTICULATE; BIOMASS-BURNING; COARSE FRACTIONS; DRY SEASONS; FINE FRACTION; FINE PARTICULATES; INORGANIC SPECIES; IONIC COMPOSITION; MASS CONCENTRATION; MEAN CONCENTRATIONS; NUCLEPORE; POLYCARBONATE FILTERS; SEA SALT AEROSOL; SEA SALTS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SECONDARY AEROSOLS; SIZE FRACTION; SIZE FRACTIONS; SOIL DUST; STANDARD DEVIATION; TANZANIA; TEMPERATURE INVERSIONS; WATER-SOLUBLE IONS; WET SEASON;

AIR POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BIOMASS; CHROMATOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; CHROMATOGRAPHY; CLIMATOLOGY; CURING; DROUGHT; ION CHROMATOGRAPHY; IONIZATION OF LIQUIDS; IONS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; WASTE INCINERATION;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

EID: 68949132924     PISSN: 0168583X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nimb.2009.06.099     Document Type: Article

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