Spatial variation of particle number concentration in school microscale environments and its impact on exposure assessment

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 5251-5258

  Salimi, Farhad ^a   Mazaheri, Mandana ^a   Clifford, Sam ^a   Crilley, Leigh R ^a   Laiman, Rusdin ^a   Morawska, Lidia ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY MEASUREMENTS; AIR QUALITY PARAMETERS; BRISBANE , AUSTRALIA; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; NONPARAMETRIC FUNCTION ESTIMATION; PARTICLE NUMBER CONCENTRATION; SOURCES OF VARIATION; SPATIAL VARIABILITY;

AIR QUALITY; ESTIMATION; ROADS AND STREETS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AIR QUALITY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DENSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ESTIMATION METHOD; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION; SPATIAL VARIATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WIND DIRECTION; WIND VELOCITY;

AIR MONITORING; AIR QUALITY; AIRBORNE PARTICLE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXHAUST GAS; METEOROLOGY; PARTICLE NUMBER CONCENTRATION; POLLUTION MONITORING; SCHOOL; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; WIND;

ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; SCHOOLS;

AUSTRALIA; BRISBANE; QUEENSLAND;

EID: 84878253020     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es400041r     Document Type: Article

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