Economic crisis detected from space: Air quality observations over Athens/Greece

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 458-463

  Vrekoussis, M ^a,b,c   Richter, A ^b   Hilboll, A ^b   Burrows, J P ^b   Gerasopoulos, E ^d   Lelieveld, J ^a,e   Barrie, L ^a   Zerefos, C ^c   Mihalopoulos, N ^a,f  

^a CYPRUS INSTITUTE   (Cyprus)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Greece)

^d NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC CRISIS; ECONOMIC INDICATORS; ECONOMIC RECESSION; MIXING RATIOS; POLLUTANT CONCENTRATION; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; STRONG CORRELATION; TROPOSPHERIC NO;

AIR QUALITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SULFUR DIOXIDE; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

NITROGEN OXIDES;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CARBON MONOXIDE; ECONOMIC IMPACT; MIXING; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; OZONE; SULFUR DIOXIDE; TROPOSPHERE;

ATHENS [ATTICA]; ATTICA; GREECE;

EID: 84874920039     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50118     Document Type: Article

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