Determinants of aerosol lung-deposited surface area variation in an urban environment

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 517, Issue , 2015, Pages 38-47

  Reche, Cristina ^a   Viana, Mar ^a   Brines, Mariola ^a   Pérez, Noemí ^a   Beddows, David ^b   Alastuey, Andrés ^a   Querol, Xavier ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND WATER RESEARCH   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Exhaust emissions; Lung deposition; Photochemistry; Size distribution

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; CRYSTALLIZATION; K-MEANS CLUSTERING; NUCLEATION; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; URBAN PLANNING;

AEROSOL SURFACE AREA; ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; DEPOSITED SURFACE AREAS; EXHAUST EMISSION; LUNG DEPOSITIONS; PARTICLE NUMBER SIZE DISTRIBUTION; ULTRAFINE PARTICLE; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS;

BLACK CARBON; NANOPARTICLE; AEROSOL; AIR POLLUTANT;

AEROSOL; BLACK CARBON; EXHAUST EMISSION; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SURFACE AREA; TOXICOLOGY; URBAN AREA;

AEROSOL; AIR POLLUTANT; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXHAUST GAS; FIELD EMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG; LUNG ALVEOLUS WALL; LUNG DEPOSIT; LUNG DEPOSITED SURFACE AREA; METEOROLOGY; NANOPARTICLE SURFACE AREA MONITOR; ONLINE MONITORING; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCANNING MOBILITY PARTICLE SIZER; SPAIN; TRAFFIC; URBAN AREA; AIR POLLUTION; ANALYSIS; CITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EXPOSURE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; URBAN POPULATION;

BARCELONA [CATALONIA]; CATALONIA; SPAIN;

EQUUS ASINUS;

AEROSOLS; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; CITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; SPAIN; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84925014745     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.02.049     Document Type: Article

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