Identification of aerosol particle sources in semi-rural area of Kwabenya, near Accra, Ghana, by EDXRF techniques

X-Ray Spectrometry

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 348-353

  Aboh, Innocent Joy Kwame ^a,d   Henriksson, Dag ^a   Laursen, Jens ^b   Lundin, Magnus ^a   Ofosu, Francis Gormon ^d   Pind, Niels ^c   Lindgren, Eva Selin ^a   Wahnstrom, Tomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BORÅS   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^d National Nuclear Research Institute   (Ghana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

AEROSOL PARTICLES; BLACK CARBON; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X-RAY FLUORESCENCE; ENERGY-DISPERSIVE X-RAY FLUORESCENCE TECHNIQUES; EXPOSED TO; HUMAN HEALTH; NON-TOXIC ELEMENT; PARTICLE SOURCE; PARTICLES SIZES; PM 2.5;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 70350778489     PISSN: 00498246     EISSN: 10974539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/xrs.1172     Document Type: Article

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