Decomposing the profile of PM in two low polluted German cities - Mapping of air mass residence time, focusing on potential long range transport impacts

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 190, Issue , 2014, Pages 91-100

  Dimitriou, Konstantinos ^a   Kassomenos, Pavlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Air mass trajectories; Air quality; Cluster analysis; Germany; Residence time

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

AIR MASS TRAJECTORIES; GERMANY; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; RESIDENCE TIME; SEASONAL TRENDS; SECONDARY SOURCES; TRANS-BOUNDARY;

METEOROLOGY;

AIR MASS; AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; MAPPING; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTANT SOURCE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RESIDENCE TIME; TRAJECTORY; TRANSBOUNDARY POLLUTION;

BADEN-WURTTEMBERG; BRANDENBURG [GERMANY]; GERMANY; KARLSRUHE; POTSDAM; STUTTGART [BADEN-WURTTEMBERG];

AIR MASS TRAJECTORIES; AIR QUALITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GERMANY; PM(10); PM(2.5); RESIDENCE TIME;

AIR MOVEMENTS; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERE; CITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GERMANY; PARTICULATE MATTER;

EID: 84898665855     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: 18736424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2014.03.019     Document Type: Article

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