Source identification of ambient aerosols over an urban region in western India

Journal of Environmental Monitoring

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1330-1340

  Sunder Raman, Ramya ^a,b   Ramachandran, S ^a   Rastogi, Neeraj ^a,c  

^a PHYSICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH BHOPAL   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CARBONATE; NITRATE; SULFATE;

AEROSOL; AIRBORNE PARTICLE; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; DUST; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; INDIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMELTER; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; URBAN AREA;

AEROSOLS; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERE; CITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INDIA; PARTICULATE MATTER;

EID: 77953420033     PISSN: 14640325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/b925511g     Document Type: Article

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