Correlation between the particulate matter (PM10) mass concentrations and aerosol optical depth in Bucharest, Romania

Romanian Reports in Physics

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1085-1096

  Barladeanu, Raluca ^a   Stefan, Sabina ^a,b   Radulescu, Razvan ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^b National Institute of Earth's Physics   (Romania)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OPTOELECTRONICS   (Romania)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Aerosol optical depth; Linear regression; Particulate matter

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869392945     PISSN: 12211451     EISSN: 18418759     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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