Characteristics of ultrafine particle sources and deposition rates in primary school classrooms

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 94, Issue , 2014, Pages 28-35

  Laiman, Rusdin ^a,b   He, Congrong ^a   Mazaheri, Mandana ^a   Clifford, Samuel ^a   Salimi, Farhad ^a   Crilley, Leigh R ^a   Megat Mokhtar, Megat Azman ^a   Morawska, Lidia ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Air exchange rate; Deposition rate; Emission rate; Indoor sources; Schools; Ultrafine particles

Indexed keywords

AIR; DEPOSITION RATES; FINANCE; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS;

AIR EXCHANGE RATES; EMISSION RATES; INDOOR SOURCES; SCHOOLS; ULTRAFINE PARTICLE;

AIR CLEANERS;

ALUMINUM; CARBON DIOXIDE;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DEPOSITION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; INDOOR AIR; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARTICLE SIZE;

AIR; AIR CONDITIONING; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BAYESIAN LEARNING; CHAIR; CLEANING; COMPUTER; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; HEATING; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT; PARTICLE DEPOSITION RATE; PRIMARY SCHOOL; PRINTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; ULTRAFINE PARTICLE SOURCE; WOOD;

AUSTRALIA; BRISBANE; QUEENSLAND;

EID: 84900803036     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2014.05.013     Document Type: Article

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