Airborne pollutant characteristics in an urban, industrial and agricultural complex metroplex with high emission loading and ammonia concentration

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 494-495, Issue , 2014, Pages 74-83

  Tsai, Jiun Horng ^a   Chang, Li Peng ^a   Chiang, Hung Lung ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Gas precursor; Particulate matter; Size segregated distribution; Water soluble ionic species

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; FOG; INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS; IONS; NITRATES; POLLUTION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

AIRBORNE POLLUTANTS; AMMONIA CONCENTRATIONS; GAS PRECURSORS; GASEOUS PRECURSORS; MASS CONCENTRATION; PARTICULATE MATTER; SIZE SEGREGATED DISTRIBUTION; WATER-SOLUBLE IONIC SPECIES;

LOADING;

AMMONIA; AMMONIUM NITRATE; AMMONIUM SULFATE; AIR POLLUTANT;

AMMONIA; AMMONIUM; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EMISSION; NITRATE; PARTICULATE MATTER; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SULFATE; SULFUR DIOXIDE; URBAN ATMOSPHERE;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; HUMIDITY; INDUSTRIAL AREA; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTION MONITORING; SEASONAL VARIATION; TAIWAN; URBAN AREA; AGRICULTURE; ANALYSIS; CITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INDUSTRY; PARTICLE SIZE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

TAIWAN;

AGRICULTURE; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; AMMONIA; CITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INDUSTRY; PARTICLE SIZE; TAIWAN;

EID: 84904405766     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.06.120     Document Type: Article

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