A note on particulate matter, total mortality and Saharan dust in Madrid

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 441, Issue , 2012, Pages 290-

  Díaz, Julio ^a   Pérez, Laura ^b,c   Linares, C ^d,e   Pey, J ^f   Alastuey, A ^f   Querol, Xavier ^f   Tobias A ^f  

^a INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^b SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^d CARLOS III INSTITUTE OF HEALTH   (Spain)

^e CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

^f INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND WATER RESEARCH   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; DUST; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; LETTER; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPAIN;

EID: 84871315826     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.10.022     Document Type: Letter

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