Spatial and temporal variations in the trace elemental data over the northeastern United States

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 439-449

  Athanassiadis, Georgios A ^a   Rao, S T ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Source receptor relationships; Spatial scale; Trace elemental concentrations; Trajectory clustering method; Weather induced fluctuations

Indexed keywords

MONITORING; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TRACE ELEMENTS;

SYNOPTIC-SCALE SYSTEMS;

POLLUTION;

ALUMINUM; ARSENIC; BROMINE; IRON; MANGANESE; SELENIUM; TRACE ELEMENT; VANADIUM; ZINC;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; PARTICULATE MATTER; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRACE ELEMENT;

AIR MONITORING; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONFERENCE PAPER; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; INDUSTRIALIZATION; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTION MONITORING; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PREDICTION; TIME; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; WEATHER;

(NORTHEAST); UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037409132     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0269-7491(03)00014-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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