| transport of airborne pollen into the city of thessaloniki: the effects of wind direction, speed and persistence. | we examined the effect of the wind vector analyzed into its three components (direction, speed and persistence), on the circulation of pollen from different plant taxa prominent in the thessaloniki area for a 4-year period (1996-1999). these plant taxa were ambrosia spp., artemisia spp., chenopodiaceae, corylus spp., cupressaceae, olea europaea, pinaceae, platanus spp., poaceae, populus spp., quercus spp., and urticaceae. airborne pollen of cupressaceae, urticaceae, quercus spp. and o. europaea ... | 2005 | 15503184 |