Fine particulate concentrations on sidewalks in five Southern California cities

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 45, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 4025-4033

  Boarnet, Marlon G ^a   Houston, Douglas ^a   Edwards, Rufus ^b   Princevac, Marko ^c   Ferguson, Gavin ^a   Pan, Hansheng ^c   Bartolome, Christian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c University of California Riverside   (United States)

Author keywords

Air quality; Built Environment; Exposure; Particulate matter; Pollution; Sidewalk

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT CONCENTRATIONS; AVERAGE CONCENTRATION; BUILT ENVIRONMENT; DENSE URBAN AREAS; DUSTTRAK; EXPOSURE; FINE PARTICLES; FINE PARTICULATES; HIGH RISE BUILDING; HIGHER TEMPERATURES; LOS ANGELES; METEOROLOGICAL FACTORS; MICROENVIRONMENTS; OPEN SPACE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PASSENGER VEHICLES; SIDEWALK; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; STREET CANYON; STUDY AREAS; TIME OF DAY; WIND SPEED;

AIR QUALITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TALL BUILDINGS;

PAVEMENTS;

AEROSOL; AEROSOL FORMATION; AIR QUALITY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MULTISTOREY BUILDING; PARTICLE SIZE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STREET CANYON; SUBURBAN AREA; TRAFFIC EMISSION; URBAN POLLUTION; URBAN SITE; WIND VELOCITY;

ARTICLE; BUILDING; HIGH TEMPERATURE; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; MICROENVIRONMENT; MOTOR VEHICLE; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAFFIC; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; WIND;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79959527303     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2011.04.047     Document Type: Article

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