Source apportionment of fine particles in Kuwait City

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 448, Issue , 2013, Pages 14-25

  Alolayan, Mohammad A ^a   Brown, Kathleen W ^b   Evans, John S ^b,c   Bouhamra, Walid S ^a   Koutrakis, Petros ^b  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c CYPRUS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Apportionment; Emission; Kuwait; PM2.5; PMF; Trajectory

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCES; APPORTIONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; KUWAIT; PETROCHEMICAL INDUSTRY; PMF; POSITIVE MATRIX FACTORIZATION MODELS; SOURCE IDENTIFICATION;

COMBUSTION; EMISSION CONTROL; INDUSTRY; NEUTRON EMISSION; PETROCHEMICALS; ROADS AND STREETS; SAND; TRAJECTORIES;

DUST;

FERTILIZER; NYLON;

AIR SAMPLING; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; COMBUSTION; EMISSION CONTROL; INDUSTRIAL EMISSION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; TRAFFIC EMISSION; URBAN POLLUTION;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; COMBUSTION; DUST; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT; EXHAUST GAS; KUWAIT; PARTICULATE MATTER; PETROCHEMICAL INDUSTRY; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMELTER;

AIR POLLUTION; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; KUWAIT; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; POWER PLANTS; SEASONS; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

KUWAIT [KUWAIT (NTN)]; KUWAIT [MIDDLE EAST];

EID: 84875235328     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.11.090     Document Type: Article

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