Atmospheric emission inventory for natural and anthropogenic sources and spatial emission mapping for the Greater Athens Area

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 219, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 507-526

  Aleksandropoulou, Victoria ^a   Torseth, Kjetil ^b   Lazaridis, M ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic sources; BVOCs; Emission inventory; GIS; Resuspended dust; Sea salt

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCES; BVOCS; EMISSION INVENTORY; RESUSPENDED DUST; SEA SALTS;

AGRICULTURE; AIR POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CHEMICAL SPECIATION; COMBUSTION; DUST; FOG; GALLIUM ALLOYS; INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS; INDUSTRIAL WASTE TREATMENT; MACHINERY; METHANE; NITROGEN OXIDES; POPULATION STATISTICS; SOIL POLLUTION; VEGETATION; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; WASTE INCINERATION;

PARTICULATE EMISSIONS;

SOLVENT; TOXIC GAS; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; EMISSION INVENTORY; GIS; PARTICULATE MATTER; SEA SALT; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY); SURROGATE METHOD; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

AGRICULTURAL WASTE; AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; ARTICLE; BIOTRANSFORMATION; COMBUSTION; DUST; ENERGY YIELD; ENVIRONMENTAL EROSION; GREECE; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; LAND USE; PARTICULATE MATTER; POPULATION DENSITY; RESIDENTIAL AREA; SOIL POLLUTANT; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; VEGETATION; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WIND; WINTER;

ATHENS [ATTICA]; ATTICA; GREECE;

EID: 79959378854     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: 15732932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11270-010-0724-2     Document Type: Article

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