Ambient ultrafine particle levels at residential and reference sites in urban and rural Switzerland

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 2709-2715

  Meier, Reto ^a,b   Eeftens, Marloes ^a,b   Aguilera, Inmaculada ^a,b   Phuleria, Harish C ^a,b,c   Ineichen, Alex ^a,b   Davey, Mark ^a,b   Ragettli, Martina S ^a,b,d   Fierz, Martin ^e   Schindler, Christian ^a,b   Probst Hensch, Nicole ^a,b   Tsai, Ming Yi ^a,b   Künzli, Nino ^a,b  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES AND ARTS NORTHWESTERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; HOUSING;

AIR MONITORING STATIONS; INTER QUARTILE RANGES; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MONITORING SITES; REFERENCE SITES; RESIDENTIAL SITE; SPATIALLY RESOLVED; ULTRAFINE PARTICLE;

URBAN GROWTH;

AMBIENT AIR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH RISK; LONG-TERM CHANGE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; POLLUTION MONITORING; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESIDENTIAL LOCATION; RURAL AREA; URBAN AREA;

AIR MONITORING; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; PARTICULATE MATTER; POPULATION DENSITY; RURAL AREA; SEASON; SWITZERLAND; URBAN AREA; ADULT; ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HEALTH; HOUSING; HUMAN; MALE; PROCEDURES; THEORETICAL MODEL;

SWITZERLAND;

AIR POLLUTANT; PARTICULATE MATTER;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HOUSING; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PARTICULATE MATTER; RURAL HEALTH; SEASONS; SWITZERLAND; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 84924034184     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es505246m     Document Type: Article

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