A comparison of health impacts assessment for PM10 during two successive years in the ambient air of Kermanshah, Iran

Atmospheric Pollution Research

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 768-774

  Marzouni, Mohammad Bagherian ^a   Alizadeh, Touba ^b   Banafsheh, Majid Rezaei ^b   Khorshiddoust, Ali Mohammad ^b   Ghozikali, Mohammad Ghanbari ^b   Akbaripoor, Shayan ^a   Sharifi, Rahman ^b   Goudarzi, Gholamreza ^c  

^a AVICENNA RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TABRIZ   (Iran)

^c AHVAZ JUNDISHAPUR UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

AirQ; Health impacts; Kermanshah; PM10; The MED

Indexed keywords

EID: 84988805219     PISSN: 13091042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apr.2016.04.004     Document Type: Article

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