Oxidative potential and chemical speciation of size-resolved particulate matter (PM) at near-freeway and urban background sites in the greater Beirut area

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 470-471, Issue , 2014, Pages 417-426

  Daher, Nancy ^a   Saliba, Najat A ^b   Shihadeh, Alan L ^b   Jaafar, Malek ^b   Baalbaki, Rima ^b   Shafer, Martin M ^c   Schauer, James J ^c   Sioutas, Constantinos ^a  

^a University of Southern California Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering ^*  (United States)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Beirut; Metals; Near freeway; Redox activity; Size resolved particulate matter; Urban settings

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL SPECIATION; MANGANESE; METALS; NICKEL; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; REDOX REACTIONS;

BEIRUT; NEAR-FREEWAY; PARTICULATE MATTER; REDOX ACTIVITY; URBAN SETTINGS;

URBAN GROWTH;

ANTIMONY; BARIUM; CHROMIUM; COBALT; COPPER; FUEL OIL; MANGANESE; MOLYBDENUM; NICKEL; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; VANADIUM; ZINC;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; HEALTH RISK; METAL; MOTORWAY; PARTICULATE MATTER; REDOX CONDITIONS; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY); TRACE ELEMENT; TRAFFIC EMISSION; URBAN ATMOSPHERE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COMBUSTION; DUST; EXHAUST GAS; HYDROPHILICITY; LEBANON; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URBAN AREA;

BEIRUT; BEYROUTH; LEBANON;

BEIRUT; METALS; NEAR-FREEWAY; REDOX ACTIVITY; SIZE-RESOLVED PARTICULATE MATTER; URBAN SETTINGS;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; CITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LEBANON; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; TRANSPORTATION; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

EID: 84886243688     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.09.104     Document Type: Article

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