Ozone trends and their relationship to characteristic weather patterns

Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 535-542

  Austin, Elena ^a,b   Zanobetti, Antonella ^a   Coull, Brent ^a   Schwartz, Joel ^a,c   Gold, Diane R ^a,c   Koutrakis, Petros ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

criteria pollutants; environmental monitoring; exposure modeling

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTANT; NITROGEN OXIDE; OZONE; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FACTUAL DATABASE; HUMAN; MASSACHUSETTS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASON; WEATHER;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; BOSTON; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; NITROGEN OXIDES; OZONE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASONS; SULFUR DIOXIDE; WEATHER;

EID: 84939563499     PISSN: 15590631     EISSN: 1559064X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jes.2014.45     Document Type: Article

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