Quantifying high-resolution spatial variations and local source impacts of urban ultrafine particle concentrations

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 655, Issue , 2019, Pages 473-481

  Saha, Provat K ^a   Zimmerman, Naomi ^a   Malings, Carl ^a   Hauryliuk, Aliaksei ^a   Li, Zhongju ^a   Snell, Luke ^b   Subramanian, R ^a   Lipsky, Eric ^a,c   Apte, Joshua S ^b   Robinson, Allen L ^a   Presto, Albert A ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Emissions; Exposure characterization; Spatial variation; Ultrafine particle; Urban air pollution

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS; LAND USE; NITROGEN OXIDES; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS;

BACKGROUND CONCENTRATION; CONTINUOUS MEASUREMENTS; PARTICLE NUMBER CONCENTRATION; PARTICLE SIZE DISTRIBUTION MEASUREMENT; SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; ULTRAFINE PARTICLE; URBAN AIR POLLUTION;

URBAN GROWTH;

CARBON MONOXIDE; NITROGEN DIOXIDE;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SPATIAL VARIATION; URBAN AREA;

AIR ANALYSIS; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; AIR SAMPLING; AIRBORNE PARTICLE; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EXHAUST GAS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HIGH RESOLUTION SPATIAL VARIATION; HIGHWAY; INDUSTRIAL AREA; LAND USE; MICROENVIRONMENT; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTAURANT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SHORT TERM EXPOSURE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; TRAFFIC; ULTRAFINE PARTICLE; URBAN AREA; WINTER;

PENNSYLVANIA; PITTSBURGH; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85056903276     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.11.197     Document Type: Article

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