Personal exposure to ultrafine particles: Two-level statistical modeling of background exposure and time-activity patterns during three seasons

Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 17-25

  Deffner, Veronika ^a   Küchenhoff, Helmut ^a   Maier, Verena ^a   Pitz, Mike ^b   Cyrys, Josef ^c,d   Breitner, Susanne ^c   Schneider, Alexandra ^c   Gu, Jianwei ^c,d   Geruschkat, Uta ^c   Peters, Annette ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Bavarian Environment Agency   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

activity diary; activity related exposure; background exposure; particle number concentration; personal exposure; ultrafine particles

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTANT; PARTICULATE MATTER; SILICONE DERIVATIVE; ULTRAFINE;

AIR POLLUTANT; ANALYSIS; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GERMANY; HUMAN; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; SEASON; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME FACTOR;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AIR POLLUTANTS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GERMANY; HUMANS; METEOROLOGICAL CONCEPTS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; SEASONS; SILICONES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84952636861     PISSN: 15590631     EISSN: 1559064X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jes.2014.73     Document Type: Article

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