Urban-scale seasonal and spatial variability of ultrafine particle number concentrations

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 223, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 2223-2235

  Wang, Yungang ^a   Hopke, Philip K ^a   Utell, Mark J ^b  

^a CLARKSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Coefficients of divergence (COD); Exposure; Number size distributions; Spatial temporal variability; Ultrafine particles (UFP)

Indexed keywords

COEFFICIENTS OF DIVERGENCE (COD); EXPOSURE; NUMBER SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL TEMPORALS; ULTRAFINE PARTICLE;

DIESEL ENGINES; POPULATION STATISTICS;

SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); PARTICLE SIZE; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; POLLUTION MONITORING; SEASONAL VARIATION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; URBAN POLLUTION;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; COMBUSTION; DIESEL ENGINE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HIGHWAY; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTION MONITORING; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECTROMETER; ULTRAFINE PARTICLE; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA;

NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; ROCHESTER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84862239995     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: 15732932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11270-011-1018-z     Document Type: Article

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