Comparison of ambient airborne PM2.5, PM2.5 absorbance and nitrogen dioxide ratios measured in 1999 and 2009 in three areas in Europe

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 487, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 290-298

  Durant, John L ^a,b   Beelen, Rob ^a   Eeftens, Marloes ^a,c,d   Meliefste, Kees ^a   Cyrys, Josef ^e,f   Heinrich, Joachim ^f   Bellander, Tom ^g,h   Lewné, Marie ^g,h   Brunekreef, Bert ^a,i   Hoek, Gerard ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Tufts University   (United States)

^c SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

^f INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^g KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^h Institute of Environmental Medicine Karolinska Institutet ^*  (Sweden)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Germany; Pollutant ratios; Sweden; The Netherlands; Traffic related air pollution

Indexed keywords

FOG; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; POLLUTION; URBAN GROWTH;

GERMANY; NETHERLANDS; POLLUTANT RATIOS; SWEDEN; TRAFFIC-RELATED AIR POLLUTION;

NITROGEN OXIDES;

BLACK CARBON; NITROGEN DIOXIDE;

AMBIENT AIR; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTANT; SOOT; TRAFFIC EMISSION;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIRBORNE PARTICLE; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); EXHAUST GAS; GERMANY; NETHERLANDS; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTION MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWEDEN; TRAFFIC; TREND STUDY; URBAN AREA;

BAVARIA; GERMANY; MUNICH; NETHERLANDS; STOCKHOLM [SWEDEN]; SWEDEN;

GERMANY; NO(2); POLLUTANT RATIOS; SWEDEN; THE NETHERLANDS; TRAFFIC-RELATED AIR POLLUTION;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUROPE; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; PARTICULATE MATTER;

EID: 84899697259     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.04.019     Document Type: Article

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