Air quality assessment in a heavily polluted urban Mediterranean environment through air quality indices

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 18, Issue , 2012, Pages 259-268

  Kassomenos, P A ^a   Kelessis, A ^b   Petrakakis, M ^b   Zoumakis, N ^c   Christidis, Th ^c   Paschalidou, A K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b Environmental Department   (Greece)

^c ALEXANDER TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Air quality Index; Complex terrain; Mediterranean city; Monitoring atmospheric data; Urban air pollution assessment

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE HEALTH EFFECTS; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR QUALITY ASSESSMENT; AIR QUALITY DATA; COMPLEX TERRAINS; INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; MEDITERRANEAN CITY; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; MONITORING STATIONS; NEIGHBOURHOOD; QUALITY INDICES; STANDARDS AND GUIDELINES; THESSALONIKI; URBAN AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY INDICES; MEDITERRANEAN CITIES; MONITORING ATMOSPHERIC DATUM; URBAN AIR POLLUTION ASSESSMENTS;

FISH; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; NITROGEN OXIDES; POLLUTION; SULFUR DIOXIDE; MIXTURES;

AIR QUALITY;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CARBON MONOXIDE; COMPLEX TERRAIN; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; HEALTH IMPACT; INDEX METHOD; INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; OZONE; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION MONITORING; URBAN POLLUTION; ASSESSMENT METHOD; NEIGHBORHOOD; OXIDE; TERRAIN;

CENTRAL MACEDONIA; GREECE; THESSALONIKI [CENTRAL MACEDONIA]; THESSALONIKI [THESSALONIKI (DPR)];

THESSALONIKI;

EID: 83455224799     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2011.11.021     Document Type: Article

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