Highly time- and size-resolved fingerprint analysis and risk assessment of airborne elements in a megacity in the Yangtze River Delta, China

Chemosphere

Volumn 119, Issue , 2015, Pages 112-121

  Niu, Lili ^a   Ye, Huajun ^b   Xu, Chao ^c   Yao, Yijun ^a   Liu, Weiping ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Health risk; Hourly variation; Meteorological condition; Particulate element; Size distribution; Source identification

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; HEALTH; HEALTH RISKS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); PUBLIC RISKS; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK PERCEPTION; RIVER POLLUTION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TRACE ELEMENTS;

CONTROL AND MANAGEMENT; DISTRIBUTION PATTERNS; ECO-INDUSTRIAL PARK (EIP); FINGERPRINT ANALYSIS; HOURLY VARIATION; METEOROLOGICAL CONDITION; PARTICULATE ELEMENT; SOURCE IDENTIFICATION;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

ANTIMONY; ARSENIC; BARIUM; BROMINE; CALCIUM; CESIUM; CHROMIUM; COBALT; CUPRIC ION; GALLIUM; IRON; LEAD; MANGANESE; MERCURY; MOLYBDENUM; NICKEL; PALLADIUM; POTASSIUM; SCANDIUM; SELENIUM; TELLURIUM; TIN; TITANIUM; VANADIUM; ZINC; AIR POLLUTANT; METAL; PARTICULATE MATTER;

AIR QUALITY; DELTA; ESTIMATION METHOD; MEGACITY; POLLUTION INCIDENCE; POLLUTION MONITORING; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRAFFIC EMISSION;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; AIRBORNE PARTICLE; ANTHROPOGENESIS; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CARCINOGENICITY; CHINA; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DUST; ECO INDUSTRIAL PARK; FINGER DERMATOGLYPHICS; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMIDITY; INDUSTRIAL AREA; INDUSTRIALIZATION; LIMIT OF DETECTION; METEOROLOGY; PARTICULATE MATTER; RESIDENTIAL AREA; RISK ASSESSMENT; RIVER; RURAL AREA; RURAL LIVING QUARTER; TRAFFIC; URBAN AREA; URBAN LIVING QUARTER; WINTER; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AIR POLLUTANT; ANALYSIS; CITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; PARTICLE SIZE;

CHINA; YANGTZE DELTA;

AIR POLLUTANTS; CHINA; CITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; METALS; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; RISK ASSESSMENT; RIVERS;

EID: 84910671125     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: 18791298     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2014.05.062     Document Type: Article

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