Source apportionment of the ionic components in precipitation over an urban region in Western India

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 212-225

  Sunder Raman, Ramya ^a,b   Ramachandran, S ^a  

^a PHYSICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

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

Author keywords

Ahmedabad; Inorganic ion concentrations; Positive matrix factorization (PMF); Potential source contribution function (PSCF); Precipitation

Indexed keywords

INORGANIC COMPOUND; METAL; NITROGEN DERIVATIVE; RAIN; SULFUR DERIVATIVE;

AEROSOL COMPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; DISSOLVED MATTER; FACTOR ANALYSIS; INORGANIC MATTER; IONIC COMPOSITION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SAMPLING; SCAVENGING (CHEMISTRY); SEASONAL VARIATION; URBAN AREA;

AFRICA; AIR POLLUTANT; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FACTUAL DATABASE; INDIA; INDIAN OCEAN; MIDDLE EAST; PH; POLLUTION; SALINITY; SEASON; SOIL; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; WIND;

AFRICA, EASTERN; AIR POLLUTANTS; CITIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INDIA; INDIAN OCEAN; INORGANIC CHEMICALS; METALS; MIDDLE EAST; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; RAIN; SALINITY; SEASONS; SOIL; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; WIND;

AHMEDABAD; ARABIAN SEA; ETHIOPIA; GUJARAT; INDIA; INDIAN OCEAN; OMAN; SOMALI; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES; YEMEN;

EID: 79551526424     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-010-0365-4     Document Type: Article

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