Black soiling of an architectural limestone during two-year term exposure to urban air in the city of Granada (S Spain)

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 414, Issue , 2012, Pages 564-575

  Urosevic, Maja ^a   Yebra Rodríguez, Africa ^b   Sebastián Pardo, Eduardo ^a   Cardell, Carolina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Architectural heritage; Atmospheric particles; Black soiling; Building limestone; Spectrophotometry

Indexed keywords

AGING TESTS; ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE; ATMOSPHERIC PARTICLES; BLACK CARBON; BLACK SOILING; CULTURAL HERITAGES; EFFECTIVE AREA; EXPONENTIAL FITTING; EXPOSURE CONDITIONS; EXPOSURE-TIME; FEEDBACK PROCESS; FRONT FACE; HUMAN EYE; MICRO RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; MICROENVIRONMENTS; PARTICULATE MATTER; SEM-EDX; SOIL DUST; SOUTHERN SPAIN; SQUARE-ROOT; SURFACE TEXTURES; URBAN AIR; URBAN CONDITIONS;

AIR POLLUTION; ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS; ATMOSPHERICS; CARBONATE MINERALS; DUST; FLY ASH; LIMESTONE; RAIN; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TESTING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

BLACK CARBON; CALCIUM CARBONATE; LIMESTONE; RAIN;

AIR QUALITY; ARCHITECTURE; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BLACK CARBON; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CULTURAL HERITAGE; DEGRADATION; LIMESTONE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; URBAN ATMOSPHERE;

AIR; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; BLACK SOILING; BUILDING; CITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; FLY ASH; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MICROENVIRONMENT; PARTICULATE MATTER; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOOT; SPAIN; SURFACE PROPERTY; TRAFFIC; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; URBAN AREA;

CALCIUM CARBONATE; CITIES; COAL ASH; COLOR; CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; PARTICULATE MATTER; SALTS; SOOT; SPAIN; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

ANDALUCIA; GRANADA [ANDALUCIA]; SPAIN;

EID: 84855539528     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.11.028     Document Type: Article

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