Spatial homogeneity and heterogeneity of ambient air pollutants in Tehran

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 697, Issue , 2019, Pages

  Faridi, Sasan ^a   Niazi, Sadegh ^b   Yousefian, Fatemeh ^a   Azimi, Faramarz ^c   Pasalari, Hasan ^d   Momeniha, Fatemeh ^d   Mokammel, Adel ^e   Gholampour, Akbar ^f   Hassanvand, Mohammad Sadegh ^a   Naddafi, Kazem ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c LORESTAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^e Khalkhal University of Medical Sciences   (Iran)

^f TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Ambient air pollutants; Heterogeneity; Homogeneity; Spatial variability; Tehran

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; NITROGEN OXIDES; QUALITY CONTROL;

AMBIENT AIR; HETEROGENEITY; HOMOGENEITY; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; TEHRAN;

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL;

CARBON MONOXIDE; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; OZONE; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

AIR QUALITY; AMBIENT AIR; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); HEALTH IMPACT; HEALTH RISK; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTION EFFECT; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR QUALITY; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; COEFFICIENT OF DIVERGENCE; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETER); CONSTANTS AND COEFFICIENTS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GASEOUS AIR POLLUTANT; IRAN; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDARD; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

IRAN; TEHRAN [IRAN];

EID: 85071456939     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.134123     Document Type: Article

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