Concentrations and source apportionment of PM 10 and associated major and trace elements in the Rhodes Island, Greece

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 432, Issue , 2012, Pages 12-22

  Argyropoulos, Georgios ^a   Manoli, Evangelia ^a   Kouras, Athanasios ^a   Samara, Constantini ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Aerosol; Chemical mass balance; Elemental composition; Source apportionment; Source profiles

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL BIOMASS; AMBIENT CONCENTRATIONS; ANTHROPOGENIC ACTIVITY; BIOMASS-BURNING; BLACK SEA; CALCIUM SULFATE; CHEMICAL MASS BALANCE; CHEMICAL MASS BALANCE MODEL; CHEMICAL PROFILES; COLD SEASON; EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN; ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION; ELEMENTAL COMPONENTS; ELEMENTAL COMPOSITIONS; EMISSION SOURCES; GEOLOGICAL MATERIALS; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; MAJOR AND TRACE ELEMENTS; MUNICIPAL WASTE; OIL COMBUSTION; RECEPTOR MODELING; SEA SPRAY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOIL DUST; SOOT EMISSIONS; SOURCE APPORTIONMENT; SOURCE PROFILES; STUDY AREAS; THERMAL POWER PLANTS; TRAJECTORY ANALYSIS; VEHICULAR EMISSION; WARM SEASONS; WOOD BURNING;

AEROSOLS; AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; DUST; SOOT; SPECTROMETRY; THERMOELECTRIC POWER PLANTS; WASTE INCINERATION;

PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER);

ALUMINUM; AMMONIA; CALCIUM; CALCIUM SULFATE; CHROMIUM; COBALT; COPPER; IRON; MAGNESIUM; MANGANESE; NICKEL; POTASSIUM; SELENIUM; SILICON; STRONTIUM; SULFUR; TITANIUM; TRACE ELEMENT; VANADIUM;

AEROSOL; BIOMASS BURNING; CHEMICAL MASS BALANCE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EMISSION; PARTICULATE MATTER; TRACE ELEMENT; TRAFFIC EMISSION;

AEROSOL; AIR POLLUTION; AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; AIR QUALITY; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; BLACK SEA; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COLD CLIMATE; COMPUTER MODEL; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DUST; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; EXHAUST GAS; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; GREECE; HEAT ACCLIMATIZATION; MINERAL BALANCE; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROBOTIC CHEMICAL MASS BALANCE RECEPTOR MODEL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOIL DUST; SOOT; SOURCE APPORTIONMENT; X RAY FLUORESCENCE;

AEGEAN ISLANDS; DODECANESE; GREECE; RHODES [DODECANESE]; RHODES [SOUTHERN AEGEAN]; SOUTHERN AEGEAN;

EID: 84862168592     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.05.076     Document Type: Article

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