Spatial and temporal patterns of particulate matter sources and pollution in four communities in Accra, Ghana

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 435-436, Issue , 2012, Pages 107-114

  Rooney, Michael S ^a   Arku, Raphael E ^b   Dionisio, Kathie L ^b   Paciorek, Christopher ^b,c   Friedman, Ari B ^d   Carmichael, Heather ^e   Zhou, Zheng ^b   Hughes, Allison F ^f   Vallarino, Jose ^b   Agyei Mensah, Samuel ^f   Spengler, John D ^b   Ezzati, Majid ^g  

^a HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

^g IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Africa; Air pollution; Biomass; Geographic information system; Particulate matter; Spatial analysis

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; AIR POLLUTION MEASUREMENTS; BIOMASS FUELS; BIOMASS SOURCE; INDUSTRIAL POLLUTION; PARTICULATE MATTER; REGRESSION MODEL; ROAD CAPACITY; ROAD SURFACES; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATIONS; SPATIAL PATTERNS; TEMPORAL PATTERN; UNPAVED ROADS; WOOD STOVE;

ALTERNATIVE FUELS; BIOMASS; CHARCOAL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FISH; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; POPULATION STATISTICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURVEYS;

AIR POLLUTION;

FUEL;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; AUTOCORRELATION; BIOMASS; GIS; GPS; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTANT SOURCE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

AIR ANALYSIS; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; COOKING; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EXHAUST GAS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; GHANA; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MOBILE PHONE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKE; WASTE;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; CHARCOAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FIRES; GARBAGE; GHANA; HUMANS; PARTICULATE MATTER; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; WOOD;

ACCRA; GHANA; GREATER ACCRA;

EID: 84864415915     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.06.077     Document Type: Article

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