A comparison of different approaches to estimate small-scale spatial variation in outdoor NO2 concentrations

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 119, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 670-675

  Dijkema, Marieke B ^a,b   Gehring, Ulrike ^b   van Strien, Rob T ^a   van der Zee, Saskia C ^a   Fischer, Paul ^c   Hoek, Gerard ^b   Brunekreef, Bert ^b,d  

^a MUNICIPAL HEALTH SERVICE   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Dispersion; Land use regression; NO2; Traffic

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE;

AIR MONITORING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISPERSION; HUMAN; LAND USE; LAND USE REGRESSION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NETHERLANDS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; TRAFFIC;

AIR POLLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; NETHERLANDS; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

EID: 79955803837     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.0901818     Document Type: Article

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