Trajectory statistics - A new method to establish source-receptor relationships of air pollutants and its application to the transport of particulate sulfate in Europe

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 579-587

  Stohl, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Long range transport; Source receptor relationship; Sulfate; Trajectories; Trajectory statistics

Indexed keywords

SULFATE;

AIR POLLUTANT; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; EUROPE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACK TRAJECTORY STATISTICS; PARTICULATE SULPHATE TRANSPORT; SOURCE DETERMINATION;

AIR POLLUTION; EUROPE; PARTICULATES; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SOURCE RECEPTOR RELATIONSHIPS; SULPHATES;

EID: 0029656703     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/1352-2310(95)00314-2     Document Type: Article

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