Overview of the Alaskan Layered Pollution and Chemical Analysis (ALPACA) Field Experiment

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Globally, billions of people burn fuels indoors for cooking and heating, which contributes to millions of chronic illnesses and premature deaths annually. Additionally, residential burning contributes significantly to black carbon emissions, which have the ...

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Energy usage, inequality, and their impacts are deeply intertwined, especially in India. Every year, cooking using biomass-based solid fuel usage causes death to tens of thousands of Indians, specifically, economically unprivileged people. Solid fuel burni ...

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Poor indoor air quality has been associated with health issues and decreased work performance. Personal exposure that takes place both in outdoor and indoor environments is the result of dy-namic processes and complex interactions between people and surrou ...

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Overview of the Alaskan Layered Pollution and Chemical Analysis (ALPACA) Field Experiment

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Quantifying functional group compositions of household fuel-burning emissions

Performance of energy piles foundation in hot-dominated climate: A case study in Dubai

Impact of anthropogenic emission control in reducing future PM2.5 concentrations and the related oxidative potential across different regions of China

Parity in bacterial communities and resistomes: Microplastic and natural organic particles in the Tyrrhenian Sea

Size-resolved inhalation intake fractions for particles released from human activities in residential indoor environments

Energy inequality and air pollution nexus in India

Assessment of Monitoring Strategies for Inhalation Exposure and Occupancy in Office Environments

What happens to biomass burning-emitted particles in the ocean? A laboratory experimental approach based on their tracers

Building ventilation and outdoor air pollution: Implications for health, comfort and energy

Repeated Human Exposure to Semivolatile Organic Compounds by Inhalation: Novel Protocol for a Nonrandomized Study

Rapid transformation of wildfire emissions to harmful background aerosol

High concentration of black carbon in northern Pakistan: Characteristics, source apportionment and emission source regions

A new chapter of healthy indoor air: antiviral air treatments

Pollution mask for the continuous corrected particle number concentration data in 1 min time resolution measured in the Swiss aerosol container using a whole air inlet during MOSAiC 2019/2020

Influence of outdoor air pollution on European residential ventilative cooling potential

Assessment of personal exposure to particle and gaseous air pollutants in residences and offices

Human personal air pollution clouds in a naturally ventilated office during the COVID-19 pandemic

Adequacy of stationary measurements as proxies for residential personal exposure to gaseous and particle air pollutants

Investigation of the effects of the Greek extreme wildfires of August 2021 on air quality and spectral solar irradiance

Optimal sensor placement for personal inhalation exposure detection in static and dynamic office environments