Residential indoor and outdoor ultrafine particles in Windsor, Ontario

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 45, Issue 40, 2011, Pages 7583-7593

  Kearney, J ^a   Wallace, L ^b   MacNeill, M ^a   Xu, X ^c   Vanryswyk, K ^a   You, H ^a   Kulka, R ^a   Wheeler, A J ^a  

^a HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

^b University of Windsor ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ambient concentration; Deposition rate; Indoor concentration; Infiltration factor; Outdoor concentration; Spatial variability; Temporal variability; Ultrafine particles

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861754113     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2010.11.002     Document Type: Conference Paper

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