Vapor-phase transport of explosives from buried sources in soils

Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1525-1533

  Ravikrishna, Raghunathan ^a   Valsaraj, Kalliat T ^a   Price, Cynthia B ^b   Brannon, James M ^b   Hayes, Charolett A ^c   Yost, Sally L ^c  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WATERWAYS EXPERIMENT STATION   (United States)

^c DynTel Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL SENSORS; DIFFUSION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; QUANTUM THEORY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOILS;

BURIED SOURCES; CHEMICAL SIGNATURE; EXPLOSIVES RESIDUES; SOIL CONCENTRATION;

EXPLOSIVES;

1,3 DINITROBENZENE; 2,4 DINITROTOLUENE; 2,6 DINITROTOLUENE; EXPLOSIVE;

ACCURACY; AIR ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; ASSAY; DIFFUSION; MODEL; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSOR; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION; VAPOR;

EID: 10244225201     PISSN: 10962247     EISSN: 21622906     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10473289.2004.10471017     Document Type: Article

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