Particulate matter levels and comfort conditions in the trains and platforms of the athens underground metro

AIMS Environmental Science

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 199-219

  Barmparesos, Nikolaos ^a,b   Assimakopoulos, Vasiliki D ^a,b   Assimakopoulos, Margarita Niki ^a,b   Tsairidi, Evangelia ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Athens underground; Indoor air quality; PM10; PM1; PM2.5; Train cabins; Transport microenvironment

Indexed keywords

EID: 85019538874     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23720352     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/environsci.2016.2.199     Document Type: Article

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