Temporal variations of ambient air pollutants and meteorological influences on their concentrations in Tehran during 2012–2017

Scientific Reports

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2020, Pages

  Yousefian, Fatemeh ^a   Faridi, Sasan ^a   Azimi, Faramarz ^b   Aghaei, Mina ^a   Shamsipour, Mansour ^a   Yaghmaeian, Kamyar ^a   Hassanvand, Mohammad Sadegh ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b LORESTAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN DIOXIDE; OZONE;

AIR POLLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; IRAN; PARTICULATE MATTER; SEASON; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTOR;

AIR POLLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; IRAN; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; OZONE; PARTICULATE MATTER; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 85077942205     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-56578-6     Document Type: Article

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