Airborne particles in the urban environment
- Grobéty, Bernard Département de Géosciences, Université de Fribourg, Switzerland
- Gieré, Reto Institut für Geowissenschaften, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg, Germany
- Dietze, Volker Research Center for Human Biometeorology, Air Quality Department, Deutscher Wetterdienst, Freiburg, Germany
- Stille, Peter LHyGeS-UMR7517, EOST, Université de Strasbourg, France
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2010
Published in:
- Elements. - 2010, vol. 6, no. 4, p. 229-234
particulate matter
urban environment
particle monitoring
chemical and isotopic tracers
health effects
air pollution
English
Particulate matter is an important constituent of our atmosphere and has a critical impact on natural processes and human health. Although they are a minor component of the average global mass flux, anthropogenic particles are abundant in the urban environment, where they contribute substantially to air pollution. Particulate matter is routinely monitored in urban areas, but different particle types can be distinguished only by combining single-particle chemical analysis with bulk analysis of trace elements and measurement of isotope ratios. Such chemical tracers also allow for source identification and thus for targeted mitigation of anthropogenic particle pollution.
- Faculty
- Faculté des sciences et de médecine
- Department
- Département de Géosciences
- Language
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- English
- Classification
- Meteorology, climatology
- License
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- Identifiers
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- RERO DOC 20579
- DOI 10.2113/gselements.6.4.229
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/301708
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