Atmospheric lead in downtown Guatemala City

摘要: Atomic absorption (AA) analysis was employed to determine, for the first time in this country, lead concentrations aerosols collected Nuclepore filter media during months of February and March (1980) Guatemala City, Guatemala. In particular, atmospheric fine particulate measured different downtown locations around noontime a single location at 1-h intervals throughout day. The used study short-term variations from one other, second correlate parameters such as traffic density wind velocity with levels airborne on same addition, paper presents brief discussion content Guatemalan gasoline, street dusts, total suspended matter City.