Predictors of intra-community variation in air quality

Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 135-147

  Franklin, Meredith ^a   Vora, Hita ^a   Avol, Edward ^a   McConnell, Rob ^a   Lurmann, Fred ^b   Liu, Feifei ^a   Penfold, Bryan ^b   Berhane, Kiros ^a   Gilliland, Frank ^a   Gauderman, W James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Sonoma Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

exposure assessment; land use; nitrogen oxides; spatial random effects; traffic; traffic related air pollution

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; NITROGEN OXIDE;

AIR POLLUTANT; ARTICLE; CITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EXHAUST GAS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; MOTOR VEHICLE; POPULATION DENSITY; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

AIR POLLUTANTS; CALIFORNIA; CITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTOR VEHICLES; NITRIC OXIDE; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; NITROGEN OXIDES; POPULATION DENSITY; URBAN POPULATION; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

EID: 84862780497     PISSN: 15590631     EISSN: 1559064X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jes.2011.45     Document Type: Article

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