Black carbon as a new air quality and health indicator of limited traffic zone (LTZ) interventions: The results of the ‘Area C’ monitoring campaigns at residential and kerbside sites in Milan, Italy

S. Moroni, A. Ruprecht, G. Tosti, B. Villavecchia, G. Mocnik, C. Sioutas, D. Westerdahl, G. Invernizzi (Milan, Italy; Lubljana, Slovenia; Los Angeles, Ithaca (NY), United States Of America)

Source: Annual Congress 2013 –Outdoor and indoor environment: respiratory diseases from asthma to asbestosis
Session: Outdoor and indoor environment: respiratory diseases from asthma to asbestosis
Session type: Thematic Poster Session
Number: 1010
Disease area: Airway diseases

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