Characterization of ionic composition of TSP and PM10 during the Middle Eastern Dust (MED) storms in Ahvaz, Iran

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 184, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 6683-6692

  Shahsavani, Abbas ^a   Naddafi, Kazem ^a   Jaafarzadeh Haghighifard, Nematollah ^b   Mesdaghinia, Alireza ^a   Yunesian, Masud ^a   Nabizadeh, Ramin ^a   Arhami, Mohamad ^c   Yarahmadi, Maryam ^a   Sowlat, Mohammad Hossein ^a   Ghani, Maryam ^a   Jonidi Jafari, Ahmad ^a   Alimohamadi, Mahmood ^a   Motevalian, Seyed Abbas ^a   Soleimani, Zahra ^b  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b AHVAZ JUNDISHAPUR UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Ahvaz; PM10; The Middle Eastern Dust storm; TSP; Water soluble ions

Indexed keywords

AHVAZ; CATIONIC COMPONENTS; CHEMICAL FORMS; DUST STORM; HEALTH EFFECTS; IONIC COMPONENT; IONIC COMPOSITION; MEAN CONCENTRATIONS; PARTICLE CONCENTRATIONS; PARTICULATE MATTER; SECONDARY IONS; SOURCE APPORTIONMENT; TOTAL MASS; TOTAL SUSPENDED PARTICLES; TSP; WATER-SOLUBLE IONS;

AMMONIA; AMMONIUM SULFATE; CALCIUM CHLORIDE; CALCIUM ION; CALCIUM SULFATE; CHLORIDE ION; FLUORIDE ION; MAGNESIUM ION; NITRATE; NITRITE; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; POTASSIUM ION; POTASSIUM SULFATE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SODIUM ION; SULFATE;

ANION; CATION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CORRELATION; DUST STORM; ION CHROMATOGRAPHY; IONIC COMPOSITION; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DUST; ION PAIR CHROMATOGRAPHY; IRAN; PARTICLE SIZE; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; CITIES; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; IONS; IRAN; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; SEASONS;

AHWAZ; IRAN; KHUZESTAN;

EID: 84867575508     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-011-2451-6     Document Type: Article

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