Air quality impacts of a scheduled 36-h closure of a major highway

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 67, Issue , 2013, Pages 404-414

  Quiros, David C ^a   Zhang, Qunfang ^a   Choi, Wonsik ^b   He, Meilu ^b   Paulson, Suzanne E ^b   Winer, Arthur M ^a   Wang, Rui ^b   Zhu, Yifang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Freeway closure; Near roadway; PM2.5; Traffic restriction; Ultrafine particle

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION MODES; AIR QUALITY IMPACTS; BLACK CARBON; ELEVATED CONCENTRATIONS; FIXED-SITE; FREEWAY TRAFFIC; LOS ANGELES; MONITORING STATIONS; NATURAL EXPERIMENT; NEAR-ROADWAY; NUCLEATION MODES; PARTICLE EMISSIONS; PARTICLE NUMBER CONCENTRATION; REGIONAL AIR QUALITY; SOUTH COAST AIR BASINS; SPATIAL MEASUREMENTS; TRAFFIC FLOW; TRAFFIC REDUCTION; TRAFFIC RESTRICTIONS; ULTRAFINE PARTICLE; URBAN REGIONS;

AIR QUALITY; FIXED PLATFORMS; NUCLEATION;

ULSI CIRCUITS;

BLACK CARBON; CHEMICAL COMPOUND;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BLACK CARBON; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PARTICULATE MATTER; ROAD; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; HIGHWAY; METEOROLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAFFIC; ULTRAFINE PARTICLE;

CALIFORNIA; LOS ANGELES [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870860180     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2012.10.020     Document Type: Article

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