Atmospheric remote sensing to detect effects of temperature inversions on sputum cell counts in airway diseases

Environmental Research

Volumn 110, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 624-632

  Wallace, Julie ^a   Nair, Parameswaran ^b   Kanaroglou, Pavlos ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Asthma; Atmospheric remote sensing; COPD; Sputum; Temperature inversions

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE; CORTICOSTEROID; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; OZONE;

AIR QUALITY; ASTHMA; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; HEALTH RISK; POLLUTION MONITORING; REMOTE SENSING; SPACECRAFT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; ATMOSPHERIC REMOTE SENSING; CELL COUNT; CHILD; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; EOSINOPHIL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LYMPHOCYTE; MACROPHAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METEOROLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUTROPHIL; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMOTE SENSING; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SCHOOL CHILD; SMOKING; SPIROMETRY; SPUTUM; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE INVERSION; VITAL CAPACITY;

AGED; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; ASTHMA; ATMOSPHERE; CELL COUNT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; SEASONS; SPUTUM; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 77954855254     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2010.05.011     Document Type: Article

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