Black Smoke and Black Carbon: Further investigation of the relationship between these ambient air metrics

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 45, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 3528-3534

  Quincey, Paul ^a   Butterfield, David ^a   Green, David ^b   Fuller, Gary W ^b  

^a NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Air quality; Black Carbon; Black Smoke; Soot

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT AIR; BLACK CARBON; BLACK SMOKE; BLACK SMOKE INDEX; DATA SETS; OPTICAL ABSORPTION COEFFICIENTS; STANDARD METHOD;

AIR QUALITY;

SMOKE;

BLACK CARBON;

ABSORPTION; AIR QUALITY; AMBIENT AIR; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BLACK CARBON; DATA SET; OECD; SMOKE;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; BLACK SMOKE; CALCULATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SMOKE; SOOT; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 79956039661     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2011.04.009     Document Type: Article

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