Morphological characteristics of bioaerosols from contrasting locations in southern tropical India - A case study

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 122, Issue , 2015, Pages 321-331

  Valsan, Aswathy E ^a   Priyamvada, Hema ^a   Ravikrishna, R ^a   Després, Viviane R ^b   Biju, C V ^c   Sahu, Lokesh K ^d   Kumar, Ashwini ^e   Verma, R S ^a   Philip, L ^a   Gunthe, Sachin S ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering   (India)

^d PHYSICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (India)

Author keywords

Bioaerosols; Morphology; Scanning electron microscopy; Tropical India

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; FUNGI; MORPHOLOGY; PLANTS (BOTANY); SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

BIOAEROSOLS; CONTINENTAL ENVIRONMENTS; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTRUM; MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTIC; MORPHOLOGICAL FEATURES; PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; POLYCARBONATE FILTERS; TROPICAL INDIA;

AEROSOLS;

POLYCARBONATE;

AEROSOL PROPERTY; FUNGUS; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPORE; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; TROPICAL REGION;

AEROSOL; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; BASIDIOMYCETES; BIOAEROSOL; BIODIVERSITY; CASE STUDY; CLADOSPORIUM; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FUNGUS SPORE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GRAIN; INDIA; INSECT; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NONHUMAN; PLANT; POLLEN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEASONAL VARIATION; URBAN AREA;

INDIA;

ASCOMYCOTA; BASIDIOMYCOTA; CLADOSPORIUM; HEXAPODA;

EID: 84943390629     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2015.09.071     Document Type: Article

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