Characterizing air pollution patterns on multiple time scales in urban areas: a landscape ecological approach

Urban Ecosystems

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 855-874

  Pope, Ronald ^a,b   Wu, Jianguo ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Maricopa County Air Quality Department   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Monitoring network; Ozone; Phoenix metropolitan region; PM10; Scale effects; Spatial pattern of air pollutants

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896416757     PISSN: 10838155     EISSN: 15731642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11252-014-0357-0     Document Type: Article

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