Perfluorocarbon background concentrations in Europe

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 32, Issue 24, 1998, Pages 4109-4122

  Straume, Anne Grete ^a   Dietz, Russel N ^b   Koffì, Ernest N'Dri ^a   Nodop, Katrin ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Background concentrations; Long range transport; Perfluorocarbons; Tracer release

Indexed keywords

FLUOROCARBONS; ISOMERS; SAMPLING; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

PERFLUOROCARBON TRACERS;

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION;

FLUOROCARBON; PERFLUORODIMETHYLCYCLOHEXANE; PERFLUOROMETHYLCYCLOHEXANE; PERFLUOROMETHYLCYCLOPENTANE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BACKGROUND LEVEL; HYDROFLUOROCARBON;

AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EUROPE; ISOMERISM; OBSERVER VARIATION; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

EUROPE;

EID: 0032402915     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1352-2310(98)00193-9     Document Type: Article

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