Analytical methods, quality assurance and quality control used in the Greenland AMAP programme

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 245, Issue 1-3, 2000, Pages 203-219

  Asmund, Gert ^a   Cleemann, Marianne ^b  

^a National Environmental Research Institute   (Denmark)

^b NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

AMAP; Analytical uncertainty; Intercomparison exercises; Organochlorine pesticides; PAH; PCB; Quality assurance; Toxaphene; Trace elements

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; ALUMINUM OXIDE; AROCLOR; ARSENIC; CADMIUM; CAMPHECLOR; CHLORDANE; CHROMIUM; COPPER; DIELDRIN; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; HEXACHLOROCYCLOHEXANE; LEAD; MERCURY; NICKEL; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; TRACE ELEMENT; ZINC;

ANALYTICAL METHOD; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POLLUTION MONITORING;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ERROR; GREENLAND; MUSSEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SEDIMENT; SOIL;

DATA COLLECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GREENLAND; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; INSECTICIDES; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

GREENLAND;

EID: 0033981469     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-9697(99)00446-5     Document Type: Article

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