Increased biomass burning due to the economic crisis in Greece and its adverse impact on wintertime air quality in Thessaloniki

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 23, 2013, Pages 13313-13320

  Saffari, Arian ^a   Daher, Nancy ^a   Samara, Constantini ^b   Voutsa, Dimitra ^b   Kouras, Athanasios ^b   Manoli, Evangelia ^b   Karagkiozidou, Olga ^b   Vlachokostas, Christos ^b   Moussiopoulos, Nicolas ^b   Shafer, Martin M ^c   Schauer, James J ^c   Sioutas, Constantinos ^a  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION EPISODES; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIURNAL VARIATION; MASS CONCENTRATION; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; QUALITY DETERIORATIONS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SAMPLING CAMPAIGNS;

AIR QUALITY; FUEL OILS; POTASSIUM; WOOD;

SMOKE;

FUEL OIL; GALACTOSAN; GALACTOSE; LEVOGLUCOSAN; MANNOSAN; MANNOSE; NICKEL; POTASSIUM; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; TRACER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANADIUM; 1,6-ANHYDRO-BETA-GLUCOPYRANOSE; AIR POLLUTANT; GLUCOSE; PARTICULATE MATTER; SMOKE;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BIOMASS BURNING; ECONOMIC INSTABILITY; FOSSIL FUEL; HEATING; NICKEL; POTASSIUM; SMOKE; TOXICITY; TRACER; WINTER;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COLD; COMBUSTION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ENERGY RESOURCE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EXHAUST GAS; GREECE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PARTICULATE MATTER; RESIDENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SMOKE; WINTER; WOOD; WOOD SMOKE; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC RECESSION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FIRE; HEATING; HISTORY; PROCEDURES; SEASON; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AIR QUALITY; FUELS; POTASSIUM; SMOKE; WOOD;

CENTRAL MACEDONIA; GREECE; THESSALONIKI [CENTRAL MACEDONIA];

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; ECONOMIC RECESSION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FIRES; GALACTOSE; GLUCOSE; GREECE; HEATING; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; MANNOSE; PARTICULATE MATTER; SEASONS; SMOKE; WOOD;

EID: 84889834302     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es403847h     Document Type: Article

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