Overview of the temporal variation of PM10 mass concentrations in the two major cities in Greece: Athens and Thessaloniki

Global Nest Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 431-441

  Triantafyllou, E ^a   Biskos, G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Health effects; Particle mass concentrations; Particulate matter

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877289824     PISSN: 17907632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.30955/gnj.000845     Document Type: Article

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