Megacities as hot spots of air pollution in the East Mediterranean

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1223-1235

  Kanakidou, Maria ^a   Mihalopoulos, Nikolaos ^a   Kindap, Tayfun ^b   Im, Ulas ^a   Vrekoussis, Mihalis ^c,h   Gerasopoulos, Evangelos ^d   Dermitzaki, Eirini ^a   Unal, Alper ^b   Koçak, Mustafa ^a,e   Markakis, Kostas ^f   Melas, Dimitris ^f   Kouvarakis, Georgios ^a   Youssef, Ahmed F ^g   Richter, Andreas ^h   Hatzianastassiou, Nikolaos ⁱ   Hilboll, Andreas ^h   Ebojie, Felix ^h   Wittrock, Folkard ^h   von Savigny, Christian ^h   Burrows, John P ^h   Ladstaetter Weissenmayer, Annette ^h   Moubasher, Hani ^g   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Greece)

^d NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^e MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^f ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^g CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Anthropogenic impact; East Mediterranean; Megacities; Transport

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC IMPACT; ANTHROPOGENIC POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; EAST MEDITERRANEAN; GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS; HOT SPOT; ISTANBUL; LOCAL SOURCE; MEGACITIES; POLLUTION LEVEL; SATELLITE DATA; TRANSPORT; URBAN AREAS;

AIR QUALITY; POLLUTION;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

OZONE;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; MEGACITY; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SATELLITE DATA; URBANIZATION;

AIR POLLUTION; AIRBORNE PARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; CITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; EGYPT; GREECE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); URBAN AREA;

ATHENS [ATTICA]; ATTICA; CAIRO [EGYPT]; EGYPT; GREECE; ISTANBUL [TURKEY]; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; TURKEY;

EID: 79651473158     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2010.11.048     Document Type: Review

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