Personal exposure monitoring of PM2.5 in indoor and outdoor microenvironments

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 508, Issue , 2015, Pages 383-394

  Steinle, Susanne ^a,b,e   Reis, Stefan ^a,c   Sabel, Clive E ^h   Semple, Sean ^d,e   Twigg, Marsailidh M ^a   Braban, Christine F ^a   Leeson, Sarah R ^a   Heal, Mathew R ^f   Harrison, David ^g   Lin, Chun ^f   Wu, Hao ^a,f  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^e INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^g BUREAU VERITAS   (France)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Air pollution; GPS; Particle counter; Particulate matter; Personal exposure

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; EXPOSURE CONTROLS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; LIGHT SCATTERING; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); RADIATION COUNTERS; ULTRASONIC EFFECTS; URBAN GROWTH;

ADVERSE HEALTH EFFECTS; AMBIENT CONCENTRATIONS; COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT; HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; MONITORING INSTRUMENTS; PARTICULATE MATTER; PERSONAL EXPOSURE MONITORING; PERSONAL EXPOSURES;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; GPS; HEALTH IMPACT; HEALTH RISK; INDOOR AIR; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; POLLUTION MONITORING; URBAN POLLUTION;

AIR MONITOR; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; OUTDOOR AIR POLLUTION; PARTICLE SIZE; PILOT STUDY; POPULATION EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; UNITED KINGDOM; VALIDATION PROCESS; AIR POLLUTANT; ANALYSIS; HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; PARTICULATE MATTER; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AIR POLLUTANT; PARTICULATE MATTER;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; PARTICULATE MATTER; SCOTLAND;

EID: 84917708676     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.12.003     Document Type: Article

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