The impact of an urban park on air pollution and noise levels in the Mediterranean city of Tel-Aviv, Israel

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 195, Issue , 2014, Pages 73-83

  Cohen, Pninit ^a   Potchter, Oded ^a,b   Schnell, Izhak ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b BEIT BERL COLLEGE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Air pollution; AQI; Noise attenuation; Pm10; Urban vegetation

Indexed keywords

POLLUTANT;

AIR POLLUTION; ANALYSIS; CITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMAN; ISRAEL; NOISE; POLLUTANT; SEASON; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AIR POLLUTION; CITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; HUMANS; ISRAEL; NOISE; SEASONS;

EID: 84907587391     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2014.08.015     Document Type: Article

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