The aim of this study was to compare particulate matter (PM) pollutants performed at three different enclosed parking garages (A, B and C) and two streets (1 and 2) in Belgium. Particle mass concentrations, number concentrations and their size distributions were measured in real time using an...

Literature reports have indicated that Particulate Matter (PM) concentrations in the atmosphere over the major urban centres of Greece are high compared to other European cities of the same size. The great majority of these reports are based on measurements that have been conducted over a limited...

A field study on the impact of fireplace on the indoor air quality was carried out between 2004 and 2006, where two main contaminants, CO and particulate matters, were investigated in twenty seven randomly selected Irish houses. The results show that while the physical environment has been improved...

The aim of the present work was to study exposure to PM in the indoor and outdoor microenvironment of a typical residence in the center of Athens. Simultaneous indoor and outdoor measurements of PM10 and PM2.5 were conducted, by the use of gravimetric and continuous samples, during October and...

The purpose of the present work was to study experimentally the indoor air quality status regarding PM10, PM2.5, TVOCs, CO2, NOx, SO2 and O3 in selected differently used areas. A flat on the third floor of a multi-storey building, located at a suburban area north-east of the centre of Athens and...

The PM10 airborne particle samples were collected at Shanghai from December 2003 to December 2005 in order to investigate platinum contamination in the urban air. The samples were analyzed by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS). The results show that the average Pt concentration in...

In the present study, the Kalman filter algorithm was applied to forecast the wintertime PM10 concentrations of Macau. The algorithm was implemented on an AR(2) model and an AREX model, respectively. The AR(2) model is essentially an autoregressive model of order 2, i.e., the daily averaged PM10...

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...

In this study, the relationship between inhalable particulate (PM10), fine particulate (PM2.5), coarse particles (PM2.5-10) and meteorological parameters such as temperature, relative humidity, solar radiation, wind speed was statistically analyzed and modeled for the urban region of Patras during...

The relationship between the viable airborne bacterial and fungal concentrations and the respirable particulate matter with aerodynamic diameter less than 10 μm (PM10), 2.5 μm (PM2.5), and 1 μm (PM1) in the ambient air was studied. An Andersen six stage viable particle sampler and a MAS 100 sampler...

The analysis of the PM10 particle measurements at the two major urban areas of Greece, Athens and Thessaloniki, showed that the mean monthly PM10 concentrations at the central urban stations, are on the average about twice as high than the corresponding ones at the examined peripheral stations. The...

Particulate matter measurements were performed at the Akrotiri research station on the island of Crete (Greece) using an 8-stages Andersen non-viable impactor. The main purpose of the current work was to measure the ambient levels of PM10 particulate matter as well as the concentrations of metals...

In this study, the Bayesian approach is proposed to estimate the noise variances of Kalman filter based statistical models for predicting the daily averaged PM10 concentrations of a typical coastal city, Macau, with Latitude 22°10’N and Longitude 113°34’E. By using the measurements in 2001 and 2002...

Particulate matter is one of the most important indoor air pollutants involved in a number of adverse health effects, such as premature deaths and increased mortality of infants and other parts of sensitive population. This paper focuses on investigation of metal substances of suspended as well as...

The aim of the present work was to characterize particulate matter (PM) and elemental carbon (EC) indoor and outdoor concentration levels in the Athens area and to examine the contribution of ambient air to the observed indoor levels. 24-hr simultaneous indoor and outdoor PM10 and PM2.5 measurements...

Probability density functions (pdf) have been used in the analysis of the distribution of pollutant data, for examining the frequency of high concentration events. There have been very few studies on the concentration distribution of PM in urban areas. The distribution of PM concentrations has an...

Several epidemiological studies have shown an association between particulate air pollution and health effects. Suspended particulates and more specifically the inhalable PM10 fraction appear to cause respiratory health effects and heart diseases. Furthermore, particulate pollution is of paramount...