Volatile organic compounds in urban rivers and their estuaries in Osaka, Japan

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 135-143

  Yamamoto, Kohji ^a   Fukushima, Mionoru ^a   Kakutani, Naoya ^a   Kuroda, Kouichi ^a  

^a OSAKA CITY INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZENE; CHLOROFORM; DIBROMOCHLOROMETHANE; DICHLOROMETHANE; GROUND WATER; RIVER WATER; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE; TOLUENE; TRICHLOROETHYLENE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTUARY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; URBAN AREA; WATER POLLUTION; WATER SAMPLING;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; DIURNAL VARIATION; ESTUARINE POLLUTION; ESTUARY; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; RIVER WATER QUALITY; URBAN RIVERS; VOC; VOLATILE COMPOUNDS;

JAPAN, HONSHU, OSAKA PREFECTURE, OSAKA;

EID: 0030620901     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0269-7491(96)00100-5     Document Type: Article

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