Chemical composition and mass closure of ambient coarse particles at traffic and urban-background sites in Thessaloniki, Greece

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 7708-7722

  Grigoratos, Theodoros ^a   Samara, Constantini ^a   Voutsa, Dimitra ^a   Manoli, Evangelia ^a   Kouras, Athanasios ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Chemical composition; Coarse particles; Mass closure; Minerals; Organic carbon; Resuspension; Thessaloniki; Urban background

Indexed keywords

AIR SAMPLING; AMBIENT AIR; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; MASS TRANSFER; ORGANIC CARBON; PARTICLE SIZE; RESUSPENSION; TRAFFIC EMISSION; URBAN AREA;

CENTRAL MACEDONIA; GREECE; THESSALONIKI [CENTRAL MACEDONIA];

THESSALONIKI;

AEROSOL; AIR POLLUTANT; DUST; EXHAUST GAS; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; NITROGEN OXIDE; PARTICULATE MATTER; TRACE ELEMENT;

AEROSOL; AIR POLLUTANT; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; CITY; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EXHAUST GAS; GREECE; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PROCEDURES; WEATHER;

AEROSOLS; AIR POLLUTANTS; CITIES; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GREECE; NITRATES; NITROGEN OXIDES; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; TRACE ELEMENTS; VEHICLE EMISSIONS; WEATHER;

EID: 84902543517     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: 16147499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-014-2732-z     Document Type: Article

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