Air quality in urban parking garages (PM10, major and trace elements, PAHs): Instrumental measurements vs. active moss biomonitoring

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 85, Issue , 2013, Pages 31-40

  Vuković, Gordana ^a   Aničić Uroševic, Mira ^a   Razumenić, Ivana ^b   Kuzmanoski, Maja ^a   Pergal, Miodrag ^b   Škrivanj, Sandra ^b   Popović, Aleksandar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Active biomonitoring; Health risk; Indoor air quality; Moss bag; Sphagnum girgensohnii

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE BIOMONITORING; ACTIVE MOSS BIOMONITORING; ELEMENT CONCENTRATIONS; INDOOR AIR QUALITY; INSTRUMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; MAJOR AND TRACE ELEMENTS; MOSS BAG; SPHAGNUM GIRGENSOHNII;

AIR QUALITY; GARAGES (PARKING); HEALTH RISKS; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; LEAD; NICKEL; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; URBAN GROWTH; ZINC;

POLLUTION;

ACENAPHTENE; ACENAPHTHYLENE; ALUMINUM; ANTHRACENE; BENZ[A]ANTHRACENE; BENZO[A]PYRENE; BENZO[B]FLUORANTHENE; BENZO[GHI]PERYLENE; BENZO[K]FLUORANTHENE; CADMIUM; CALCIUM; CHROMIUM; CHRYSENE; COBALT; COPPER; DIBENZ[A,H]ANTHRACENE; FLUORANTHENE; FLUORENE; HEAVY METAL; INDENO[1,2,3 C,D]PYRENE; IRON; LEAD; MANGANESE; NAPHTHALENE; NICKEL; PHENANTRENE; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; PYRENE; TRACE ELEMENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BIOMONITORING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); HEALTH RISK; INDOOR AIR; MOSS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PAH; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RISK FACTOR; TRACE ELEMENT; URBAN ATMOSPHERE;

AIR CONDITIONING; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; AIR QUALITY CONTROL; AIR SAMPLER; AIR SAMPLING; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CANCER RISK; CONSTRUCTION WORK AND ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENA; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; LIMIT OF DETECTION; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; MOSS; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPHAGNUM GIRGENSOHNII; URBAN AREA;

BELGRADE; SERBIA;

EID: 84890851462     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2013.11.053     Document Type: Article

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