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International Air Quality Data

[AFRICA] [Botswana] [Kenya] [South African Region] [ASIA] [China] [Hong Kong] [India] [Indonesia] [Japan] [Korea] [Malaysia] [Pakistan] [Singapore] [Taiwan] [Thailand] [AUSTRALASIA] [Australia] [New Zealand] [CENTRAL ASIA] [Tajikistan] [EUROPE] [Belgium] [Bulgaria] [Denmark] [Finland] [Germany] [Great Britain and UK] [Ireland] [Russian Federation] [Spain] [Sweden] [NORTH AMERICA] [Canada] [Mexico] [United States] [LATIN AMERICA AND CARIBBEAN] [Brazil] [Chile] [Colombia] [ADDITIONAL SOURCES]

AFRICA

Environmental Monitoring Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa (EIS-SSA)

UNEP Regional Office for Africa - Ozone Programme

Winds of Change... and Pollution. By: C.B. Environment, Jan/Feb2003, Vol. 45 Issue 1, p8, 1p
(A brief report on the Mediterranean area and impacts of European air pollution on Africa)

World Bank, Clean Air Initiative (CAI) - Africa

Botswana

S. Chimidza and K. Moloi, Identification of Sources of Aerosol Particles in Three Locations in Eastern Botswana, Journal of Geophysical Research, 105, D14,17811- 17818, July 2000.

E.R. Jayaratne and T.S. Verma, The impact of Biomass Burning on the Environment Aerosol Concentration in Gaborone, Botswana, Atmospheric Environment, 35, 1821-1828, 2001.

S. Chimidza, A. Viksna and E. Selin Lindgren, EDXRF and TXRF Analysis of Aerosol Particles and the Mobile Fraction of Soil in Botswana, X-Ray Spectrometry, 30, 301-307, 2001.

K. Moloi, S. Chimidza, E. Selin Lindgren, A. Viksna and P. Standzenieks, Black Carbon, Mass and Elemental Measurements of Airborne particles in the village of Serowe, Botswana, Atmospheric Environment, 36, 2 447-2 457, May 2002.

Kenya

Licientiate Thesis on Studies of Tropospheric aerosols at selected sites in Kenya. Michael J. Gatari (2002), Physics and Engineering Physics, Gothenburg University and Chalmers University of Technology, SE-412 96, Gothenburg, Sweden.

M. J. Gatari, J. Boman, and D. M. Maina (2001). Inorganic element concentrations in near surface aerosols sampled on the northwestern slopes of Mount Kenya. Atmospheric Environment 35: 6015-6019.

M. J. Gatari and J. Boman (2003). Black Carbon and Total Carbon measurements at urban and rural sites in Kenya, East Africa. Atmospheric Environment 37: 1149-1154.

Kituyi E., Marufu L., Wandiga S. O., Jumba I. O., Andreae M. O., Gunter H. (2001). Biofuel availability and domestic use patterns in Kenya. Biomass & Bioenergy 20, 71-82.

Gatebe C. K., Tyson P. D., Annegarn H. J., Helas G., Kinyua A. M., Piketh S. J. (2001). Characterisation and transport of aerosols over equatorial eastern Africa. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 15, 663-672.

South African Region

South African Air Quality Related Findings and Recommendations from the Refinery Managers' Environmental Forum

SAFARI 2000 Test Sites

ASIA

Asiairnet and Air Pollution in the Mega Cities of Asia (APMA)

Asian Development Bank - Vehicle Emissions Reduction Program

Asian Regional Research Program on Environmental Technology

Carmichael GR, Streets DG, Calori G, Amann M, Jacobson MZ, Hansen J, Ueda H, "Changing trends in sulfur emissions in Asia: implications for acid deposition, air pollution, and climate." Environ Sci Technol. 2002 Nov 15;36(22):4707-13. [Abstract]

CAI - Asia, Topic: Indoor Air Pollution

Environment Congress for Asia and the Pacific

French, 2002: China's growing deserts are suffocating Korea, New York Times, April 14, 2002.

Haq, Gary; Han, Way-Jin; Kim, Christine; Vallack, Harry, 2002, Benchmarking Urban Air Quality Management and Practice in Major and Mega Cities of Asia. Prepared and Published in the Framework of the APMA Project. 119 p. [Summary]

The Health Effects Institute - Public Health and Air Pollution in Asia (PAPA)

Schwela, D H (1999) Public Health and the Air Management Information System (AMIS). Epidemiology 10: pp647-655

South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics (SANDEE)

Tan, Q., Y. Huang, WL Chameides, The budget and export of anthropogenic SOx from East Asia during continental outflow conditions, J. Geophys. Res., J. Geophys. Res., 107, 10.1029/2001JD000769, 2002.

World Bank, Clean Air Initiative (CAI) - Asia

China

Air Quality Daily Report for 47 Major Cities in China

Chapman, RS et al., Assessing Indoor Air Pollution Exposure and Lung Cancer Risk in Xuan Wei, China, Journal of the American College of Toxicology, Vol. 8, No. 5 (1989), pp. 941-948.

Cheung, T.F., and Wang. T. Observational study of ozone pollution at a rural site in the Yangtze Delta of China, Atmosphere Environment, 35, 4947-4958, 2001.

China Environmental Protection

2001 China - Atmosphere

China and Coal

Environmental Change and Human Health, WRI (1998-1999)

Fudan University, School of Public Health

Guangdong Environmental Protection

Gupta, S, S. T. Waldhoff, M. Q. Wang, T. C. Bond, and B. Yiyan, Black carbon emissions in China, Streets, D. G., Atmos. Environ., Vol. 35 (25) pp. 4281-4296, 2001.

Lou, C., J.C. St. John, Zhou Xiuji, K.S. Lam, T. Wang, and W.L. Chameides, A non-urban ozone air pollution episode over eastern China: Observations and model simulations, J. Geophys. Res., 105, 1889-1908, 2000.

Menon, Surabi; Hansen, James; Nazarenko, Larissa; Yunfeng Luo. Climate Effects of Black Carbon Aerosols in China and India. Science, 9/27/2002, Vol. 297 Issue 5590, p2250, 4p.

Mumford, J.L. et al., "DNA Adducts As Biomarkers for Assessing Exposure to Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Tissues from Xuan Wei Women with High Exposure to Coal Combustion Emissions and High Lung Cancer Mortality," Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 99 (1993), pp. 83-87.

Peking University Health Center

Shanghai Environment Monitoring Center - State of the Environment

Wang, T., Cheung, T.F., Li, Y.S., Yu, X., and Blake, D., Emission characteristics of CO, NOx, SO2 and indications of biomass burning observed at a rural site in eastern China, Journal of Geophysical Research, 107, 2002.

Xu Xiping et al., "Air Pollution and Daily Mortality in Residential Areas of Beijing, China," Archives of Environmental Health, Vol. 49, No. 4 (1994), pp. 216-222.

Xu Xiping, Li Bauluo, and Huang Huying, "Air Pollution and Unscheduled Hospital Outpatient and Emergency Room Visits," Archives of Environmental Health, Vol. 103, No. 3 (1995), pp. 286-289.

Xu Zhaoyi et al., "The Effect of Air Pollution on Mortality in Shenyang City," Journal of Public Health in China, Vol. 15, No. 1 (1996), p. 61.

Yuanhang Zhang, Shaodong Xie, Min Shao, Limin Zeng, Min Hu, Wei Wang, Michael Bergin, "Aerosol Pollution and its Sources in Major Cities of China" NASA GISS Conference on Air Pollution as a Climate Forcing

Hong Kong

An Overview on Air Quality and Air Pollution Control in Hong Kong

Hedley AJ, Wong CM, Thach TQ, Ma S, Lam TH, Anderson HR., Cardiorespiratory and all-cause mortality after restrictions on sulphur content of fuel in Hong Kong: an intervention study. Lancet. 2002 Nov 23;360(9346):1646-52. [Abstract]

Wong CM, Atkinson RW, Anderson HR, Hedley AJ, Ma S, Chau PY, Lam TH. A tale of two cities: effects of air pollution on hospital admissions in Hong Kong and London compared. Environ Health Perspect. 2002 Jan;110(1):67-77. [Abstract]

Wong TW, Lau TS, Yu TS, Nellar A, Wong SL, Tam W, Pang SW, "Air pollution and hospital admissions for respiratory and cardiovascular diseases in Hong Kong," Occup Environ Med. 1999 Oct;56(10):679-83. [Abstract]

India

Balakrishnan K, Sankar S et.al. 2002 Daily average exposures to respirable particulate matter from combustion of biomass fuels in rural households of southern India, Environmental Health Perspectives 110(11): 1069 5.

Central Pollution Control Board Homepage - National Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Programme

National Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Program (Archives)

Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)

Indian Ocean Experiment

Menon, Surabi; Hansen, James; Nazarenko, Larissa; Yunfeng Luo. Climate Effects of Black Carbon Aerosols in China and India. Science, 9/27/2002, Vol. 297 Issue 5590, p2250, 4p.

Mitra, AP (National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi), "Indian Inventory of Climate Forcing Pollutants" NASA GISS Conference on Air Pollution as a Climate Forcing.

Mitra, A.P.; Sharma, C. Indian aerosols: present status. Chemosphere, Dec 2002, Vol. 49 Issue 9, p1175, 16p.

Saksena S, Prasad R, Pal RC, Joshi V. 1992 Patterns of daily exposure to TSP and CO in the Garhwal Himalaya, Atmospheric Environment 26A (11): 2125 134.

Saksena S, Singh P B et.al. 2003 Exposure of Infants to Outdoor and Indoor Air Pollution in Low-Income Urban Areas-A Case Study of Delhi, J. of Exposure Analysis and Environ. Epidem. 13(3):219 30.

The Taj Mahal: Pollution and Tourism

Japan

Ministry of the Environment - State of the air at a glance

Atmospheric Environmental Regional Observation System (AEROS)

Akita Prefecture, Today's Air Quality

Tokyo Bureau of Environmental Protection

Kagawa J. "Atmospheric pollution due to mobile sources and effects on human health in Japan," Environ Health Perspect. 1994 Oct;102 Suppl 4:93-9. [Abstract]

APEC Virtual Center for Environmental Technology Exchange
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Hyogo Prefecture

Japan Air Pollution

AUSTRALASIA

Australia

Environment Australia (EA) - Air Quality Section

EA - National Pollutant Inventory

EA - State of the Environment 2001: Atmosphere

New South Wales Environment Protection Authority

EPA Victoria

Australian Greenhouse Office

Air Quality in Western Australia

South East Queensland Monitoring Network (Queensland EPA)

New Zealand

Ministry for the Environment, National Air Quality Database

Environmental Performance Indicators Programme - Air Quality Data

CENTRAL ASIA

Clean Air Initiative in Cities of Europe and Central Asia

State of the Environment Reports for Central and Eastern Europe, Caucuses and Central Asia

Aral Sea - Air Quality (GRID-Arendal)

Tajikistan 2002 - State of the Environment Report, Air Quality

EUROPE

APHEA

APHEIS (Europe)

Belgian Interregional Cell for the Environment (IRCEL-CELINE)

Clean Air Initiative in Cities of Europe and Central Asia

Cooperative Programme for the Long-Range Transmission of Air Pollutants in Europe (EMEP)

EuroAirnet, European Air Quality Monitoring Network, at the Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU)

European Topic Centre on Air and Climate Change, AirBase

GRID-Arendal, Norway, United Nations Environment Program (UNEP)

Network on Air Pollution and Health

Pollution and the Young

State of the Environment Reports for Central and Eastern Europe, Caucuses and Central Asia

Winds of Change... and Pollution. By: C.B. Environment, Jan/Feb2003, Vol. 45 Issue 1, p8, 1p.
(A brief report on the Mediterranean area and impacts of European air pollution on Africa)

Belgium

Belgian Interregional Cell for the Environment (IRCEL-CELINE)

Bulgaria

Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology (weekly air quality reports)

Denmark

National Environmental Research Institute of Denmark

Finland

Finnish Metereological Institute

Finnish Ministry of the Environment

Germany

Senate Department of Urban Development - Environment (English version)

Moldova 1998 - State of the Environment Report, Urban Air Quality

Great Britain and the U.K.

London, England

Cambridge City, England

UK National Air Quality Information Archive (AQI updated hourly)

UK, Monthly Air Quality Index

UK, Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)

Ireland

Effect of air-pollution control on death rates in Dublin, Ireland: an intervention study. By: Clancy, Luke; Goodman, Pat; Sinclair, Hamish; Dockery, Douglas W. Lancet, 10/19/2002, Vol. 360 Issue 9341, p1210, 5p, 3 charts, 2 graphs.

Netherlands

National Institute of Public Health and the Environment (RIVM)

Russian Federation

All-Russian Research Institute of Hydrometeorological Information

Autonomous Russian Health Center

Barrie LA, Gregor D, Hargave B, Lake R, Muir D, Shearer R, Tracey B, Bidleman T, "Arctic contaminants: sources, occurrence and pathways." Sci Total Environ. 1992 Jul 15;122(1-2):1-74. [Abstract]

Cherp, Aleg, I Kopteva, R Mnatsakanian, "Economic transition and environmental sustainability: effects of economic restructuring on air pollution in the Russian Federation" Journal of Environmental Management. V 68, #2, June 2003, pp 141-151. [Abstract]

Golubeva, N, L Burtseva and G. Matishov, "Measurements of mercury in the near-surface layer of the atmosphere of the Russian Arctic," Sci Total Environ. 2003 May 1;306(1-3):3-9. [Abstract]

Ivanenko AV, Khizgiiaev VI, Safonkina SG, Metel'skaia MV, [Forms of monitoring of the assurance of the population's sanitary-epidemiological well-being] Gig Sanit. 2003 Jan-Fe;(1):69-70. In Russian.

Ivanov AV, Frolova OA, [Assessment of human health risk factors in the city of Nizhnekamsk] Gig Sanit. 2003 Jan-Feb;(1)30-2. In Russian.

Klopov VP "Levels of heavy metals in women residing in the Russian Arctic" Int J Circumpolar Health. 198;57 Suppl 1:583-5. [Abstract]

Muir, Derek, Tatiana Savinova and Salve Dahle, "POPs and heavy metal contamination in the Russian Arctic marine and freshwater environments," Sci Total Environ. 2003 May 1;306(1-3):1-2. [Abstract]

"Russia Air Pollution" from the Trade Environment Database (TED) at American University

Shavshanko V, Lisitzin A, Vinogradova A, Stein R, "Heavy metals in aerosols over the seas of the Russian Arctic," Sci Total Environ. 2003 May 1;306(1-3):11-25. [Abstract]

Snakin, VV. "Biosphere pollution with lead; its dimensions and trends in Russia" Med Tr Prom Ekol. 1999;(5):21-7. In Russian [Abstract]

Spain

Tenias, JM, Ballester F, Perez-Hoyos S, Rivera ML, "Air pollution and hospital emergency room admissions for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in Valencia, Spain," Arch Environ Health. 2002 Jan-Feb;57(1):41-7 [Abstract]

Tobias Garces A, Sunyer Deu J, Castellsague Pique J, Saez Zefra M, Anto Boque JM, "Impact of air pollution on the mortality and emergencies of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma in Barcelona," Gac Sanit. 1998 Sep-Oct;12(5):223-30. In Spanish. [Abstract]

Sweden

Swedish Environmental Research Institute - IVL

Stockholm

Norkoping

NORTH AMERICA

North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation

"Assessing the Health Benefits of Urban Air Pollution Reductions with Climate Change Mitigation (2000-2020): Santiago, Sao Paulo, Mexico City and New York City," Environmental Health Perspectives, V 109, Supp 3, June 2001.

Canada

Barrie LA, Gregor D, Hargave B, Lake R, Muir D, Shearer R, Tracey B, Bidleman T, "Arctic contaminants: sources, occurrence and pathways." Sci Total Environ. 1992 Jul 15;122(1-2):1-74. [Abstract]

Delfino RJ, Murphy-Moulton AM, Burnett RT, Brook JR, Becklake MR, "Effects of air pollutin on emergency room visits for respiratory illnesses in Montreal, Quebec," Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 1997 Feb;155(2):568-76. [Abstract]

Government of British Columbia - Water, Air and Climate Change Branch

Greater Vancouver Regional District, Lower Fraser Valley Air Quality Monitoring District

Macdonal RW, Barrie LA, Bidleman TF, et al. "Contaminants in the Canadian Arctic: 5 years of progress in understanding sources, occurrence and pathways," Sci Total Environ. 2000 Jun 1;254(2-3):93-234. [Abstract]

New Brunswick Department of the Environment and Local Government

Air Quality Ontario

Toronto Public Health - 20/20 The Way to Clean Air

Winnipeg Air Quality Index

Great Lakes Information Network

Mexico

Mexico City Real-Time Air Quality Report

Los Alamos National Laboratory - Report: Mexico City Air Quality Initiative

Romieu I, Meneses F, Sienra-Monge JJ, Huerta J, Ruiz Velasco S, White MC, Etzel RA, Hernandez-Avila M, "Effects of urban air pollutants on emergency visits for childhood asthma in Mexico City" Am J Epidemiol. 1995 Mar 15;141(6):546-53. [Abstract]

United States of America - See National Air Quality Indices

Carbonsequestration.us

Dockery, D.W., Pope, C.A., Xu, S., Spengler, J.D., et al. An Association Between Air Pollution and Mortality in Six U.S. Cities, 329 New England J. Med. 1753-59 (1993).

Krewski D, Burnett RT, Goldberg MS, et al. Reanalysis of the Harvard Six Cities Study and the American Cancer Society Study of particulate air pollution and mortality. Special Report. Boston, MA: Health Effects Institute, 2000.

Pope, C.A., Thun, M.J., Namboordiri, M.M., Dockery, D.W., et al. Particulate Air Pollution as a Predictor of Mortality in a Prospective Study of U.S. Adults. 151 Am J Respir Crit Care Med 669-74 (1995)

Spengler, J.D., "Death, Disease and Dirty Power: Mortality and Health Damage Due to Air Pollution from Power Plants", Harvard School of Public Health, September 2000.

Woodruff, T.J., Grillo, J. and Schoendorf, K.C.. The Relationship Between Selected Causes of Postneonatal Infant Mortality and Particulate Air Pollution in the United States. Environmental Health Perspectives, 105(6), June 1997.

Testimony of Daniel S. Greenbaum, President HEI, Before the US House Science Committee Hearing on the Health Effects of Particulate Matter: What Does the Science Say? May 8. 2002

United States EPA, Final Report to Congress on Benefits and Costs of the Clean Air Act, 1970 to 1990; 1997: EPA 410-R-97-002

U.S. EPA, OAQPS, "The Benefits and Costs of the Clean Air Act 1990 to 2010" EPA-410-R-99-001 (November 1999)

Latin America and the Caribbean

World Bank Clean Air Initiative (CAI) in Latin America

Brazil

Secretaria de Estado do Meio Ambiente

IBAMA Brasil.gov

Conceicao, GM, Miraglia SG, Kishi HS, Saldiva PH, Singer JM, "Air Pollution and child mortality: a time-series study in Sao Paulo, Brazil," Environ Health Perspect. 2001 Jun:109 Suppl 3:347-50. [Abstract]

Martins LC, Latorre Mdo R, Saldiva PH, Braga AL, "Air Pollution and emergency room visits due to chronic lower respiratory diseases in the elderly: an ecological time-series study in Sao Paulo, Brazil," J. Occup. Environ. Med. 44 (7):622-1, Jul 2002. [Abstract]

Sao Paulo State Environmental Technology Company (CETESB) - AQI

Chile

SiNIA - Sistema Nacional de Informacion Ambiental

"Chile Air Pollution" from the Trade Environment Database (TED), A.U.

Colombia

Laboratory of Air and Soil Pollution Studies

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES FOR THE STUDY OF AIR POLLUTION AND PUBLIC HEALTH AROUND THE WORLD

AirImpacts.org

Allred EN, Bleeker ER, Chaitman BR, Dahms TE, Gottlieb SO, Hackney JD, Pagano M, Selvester RH, Walden SM, Warren J, Short-term effects of carbon monoxide exposure on the exercise performance of subjects with coronary artery disease, New Engl. J. Med., 321, 1426-32, 1989.

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Bergamaschi E, DePalma G, Mozzoni P, Vanni S, Vetteri MV, Broeckaert F, Bernard A, Multi A, Polymorphism of quinone-metabolizing enzymes and susceptibility to ozone-induced acute effects. Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med., 163, 1426-31, 2001.

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Calderon-Garciduenas L, Osnaya-Brizuela N, Ramirex-Martinez L, Villareal-Calderon A, DNA strand breaks in human nasal respiratory epithelium are induced upon exposure to urban pollution, Environmental Health Perspectives, 104, 160-8, 1996.

Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center - Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Cities Environment Reports on the Internet - UNEP cities studies spanning the globe

Committee of the Environmental and Occupational Health Assembly of the American Thoracic Society (ATS), Health effects of outdoor air pollution, Part 1, Am J Resp Crit Care Med, 153: 3-50, 1996.

Committee of the Environmental and Occupational Health Assembly of the American Thoracic Society (ATS), Health effects of outdoor air pollution, Part 2, Am J Resp Crit Care Med, 153: 477-498, 1996.

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The Global Embrace 2001

Greenbaum, Daniel S. "Understanding the Effects of Climate-relevant Components of the Air Pollution Mixture - The Carbon Particle Fraction" NASA GISS Conference on Air Pollution as Climate Forcing
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Health Effects Institute, Airborne Particles and Health: HEI Epidemiological Evidence, HEI Perspectives, June 2001. Charlestown, MA.

Health Effects Institute, Understanding the Toxicity of Components of Particle Mix: Recent Progress and Next Steps, Perspectives Series No. 2, Boston, MA: Health Effects Institute, 2002.

"Hidden Health Benefits for Greenhouse Gas Mitigation," Science Magazine, Aug. 17, 2001, V. 293: 1257-1259

Infante-Rivard C, Childhood asthma and indoor environmental risk factors, Am. J. Epidemiology, 137, 834-44, 1993.

International Register of Potentially Toxic Chemicals

Kryzanowski M, Schwela D, Patterns of Air Pollution in Developing Countries, in Air Pollution and Health (Holgate ST, Samet JM, Koren HS, Maynard RL, eds), Academic Press, San Diego, CA, 1999.

Kunzli N, Lurmann F, Segal M, Ngo L, Balmes J, Tager IB, Association between lifetime ambient ozone exposure and pulmonary function in college freshmen-Results of a pilot study, Environ Res, 72, 8-23, 1997.

Mishra, Vinod K., Robert D. Retherford, and Kirk R. Smith, Cooking with Biomass Fuels Increases the Risk of Blindness, NFHS Bulletin, No. 14. April 1999. 4 pp.

Mishra, Vinod K., Robert D. Retherford, and Kirk R. Smith. Cooking with Biomass Fuels Increases the Risk of Tuberculosis, NFHS Bulletin, No. 13. February 1999. 4 pp.

Mortimer KM, Tager IB, Dockery DW, Neas LM, Redline S. "The effect of ozone on inner-city children with asthma: Identification of susceptible subgroups," Am J Respir Crit Care Med, 162:1838-45 2000.

Mudway IS, Kelly FJ, Ozone and the lung; a sensitive issue, Mol Aspects Med., 21 1-48, 2001.

National Research Council, committee on Research Priorities for Airborne Particulate Matter. Research priorities for airborne particulate matter: I. Immediate priorities and a long-range research portfolio. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1998.

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) - Environment

Pope CA, Burnett RT, Thun MJ, Calle EE, Knewski D, Ho K, Thurston G. Lung Cancer, Cardiopulmonary Mortality, and Long-term Exposure to fine Particulate Air Pollution, JAMA 287(9):1132-1141, 2002.

Pope CA III, Dockery DW, Epidemiology of particle effects, in Air Pollution and Health (Holgate ST, Samet JM, Koren HS, Maynard RL, eds), Academic Press, San Diego, CA, 1999.

Ramanathan, V., PJ Crutzer, JT Kiehl and D Rosenfield, Aerosols, climate, and the hydrological cycle, Science. 294, 2119-2124, 2001.

Romieu I, Meneses F, Ramirez M, Ruiz S, Perez Padilla R, Sienra JJ, Gerber M, Grievink L, Dekker R, Walda I, Brunekreef B, Antioxidant supplementation and respiratory functions among worker exposed to high levels of ozone, Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med., 158, 226-32, 1998.

Samet JM, Cohen AJ, Air Pollution and Lung Cancer, in Air Pollution and Health (Holgate ST, Samet JM, Koren HS, Maynard RL, eds), Academic Press, San Diego, CA, 1999.

Scheible, Michael (CARB), "California Emission Control Case-Study," NASA GISS Conference on Air Pollution as a Climate Forcing
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Schwela, Dietrich Hermann. "Public Health and the Air Quality Information Management System (AMIS)." Epidemiology, Vol 10, No 5, Sept. 1999

Smith K, Estimating the Global Burden of Disease from Indoor Air Pollution, Air Pollution as a Climate Forcing -- A Workshop; Honolulu, Hawaii: May 2002

Streets, David G. (ANL), "Overview of Gas and Aerosol Emissions," NASA GISS Conference on Air Pollution as a Climate Forcing
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Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) - Air

STAPPA/ALAPCO - Clean Air World

Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI)

SEI & SIDA Regional Air Pollution in Developing Countries - RAPIDC

Tunnicliffe WS, Burge PS, Ayres JG. Effect of domestic concentrations of nitrogen dioxide on airway responses to inhaled allergen in asthmatic patients. Lancet 1994; 344:1733-6.

United Nations Development Programme

United Nations Environment Programme

UNEP - State of the Global Environment

United Nations Division for Sustainable Development

White, Robin, "Exposure to air polluted with lead in developing countries," World Resources Institute, 1999.

WHO Air Quality Guidelines Information [Preface] [Summary]

World Bank Clean Air Initiative (CAI) for Cities Around the World

World Meteorological Association - Global Atmosphere Watch, Annex L

Worldwatch Institute

World Resources Institute