Urban air quality management-A review

Atmospheric Pollution Research

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 286-304

  Gulia, Sunil ^a   Shiva Nagendra, S M ^b   Khare, Mukesh ^a   Khanna, Isha ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

Air quality monitoring and modeling; Urban air pollution control; Urban air quality management plan; Urban hot spot; Vehicular air pollution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923169595     PISSN: 13091042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5094/APR.2015.033     Document Type: Article

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