Key issues in controlling air pollutants in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 45, Issue 40, 2011, Pages 7705-7713

  Begum, Bilkis A ^a   Biswas, Swapan K ^b   Hopke, Philip K ^c  

^a ATOMIC ENERGY CENTER   (Bangladesh)

^b Clean Air and Sustainable Environment Project   (Bangladesh)

^c CLARKSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerosol or particulate matter (PM); BC; Compressed natural gas; Gent stacked filter unit; Positive matrix factorization; Traffic

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865822712     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2010.10.022     Document Type: Conference Paper

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