Water-based condensation particle counters comparison near a major freeway with significant heavy-duty diesel traffic

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 68, Issue , 2013, Pages 151-161

  Lee, Eon S ^a   Polidori, Andrea ^b   Koch, Michael ^b   Fine, Philip M ^b   Mehadi, Ahmed ^c   Hammond, Donald ^c   Wright, Jeffery N ^c   Miguel, Antonio H ^c   Ayala, Alberto ^c   Zhu, Yifang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SOUTH COAST AIR QUALITY MANAGEMENT DISTRICT   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Freeway; Traffic emissions; Ultrafine particles; WCPC

Indexed keywords

CLOSE PROXIMITY; CORRECTION EQUATION; COUNT MEDIAN DIAMETERS; EXPONENTIAL REGRESSION; HEAVY-DUTY DIESEL; INSTRUMENT PERFORMANCE; LINEAR CORRELATION; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; MEASUREMENT OF PARTICLES; OPERATIONAL CONDITIONS; PARTICLE COUNTS; PARTICLE NUMBER CONCENTRATION; SCANNING MOBILITY PARTICLE SIZER; SIZE DEPENDENCY; THREE MODELS; TIME INTERVAL; TRAFFIC EMISSIONS; ULTRAFINE PARTICLE; WATER-BASED CONDENSATION PARTICLE COUNTERS; WCPC; WIND DIRECTIONS;

HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIATION COUNTERS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

INSTRUMENTS;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONDENSATION; DIESEL; MOTORWAY; PARTICLE SIZE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TRAFFIC EMISSION;

ARTICLE; DIESEL ENGINE; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROMETRY; TRAFFIC; WATER BASED CONDENSATION PARTICLE COUNTER;

EID: 84871485874     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2012.12.001     Document Type: Article

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