This study reports particulate matter levels of various size fractions (PM10, PM2.5, and PM1) and identify their controlling factors, in various locations over Greece. It combines long-term data sets involving particle concentrations as measured in the island of Crete in the Eastern Mediterranean...

Agrochemicals, geochemical structure and industrial wastes create a potential source of heavy metal pollution in the aquatic environment. The porpuse of this study was to investigate the seasonal variations in five heavy metals (Cu, Zn, Cd, Pb and Cr) in the surface water of the Keritis river, one...

The purpose of this research was to study the chemical composition of rainwater to assess the impact of marine aerosol and anthropogenic emissions by using back air-mass trajectories. Fieldwork was done from July to November 2004, in a coastal site probably impacted by gas and oil industry in...