Atmospheric PCBs and organochlorine pesticides in Birmingham, UK: Concentrations, sources, temporal and seasonal trends

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1437-1445

  Harrad, Stuart ^a   Mao, Hongjun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Concentrations; Organochlorine pesticides; PCBs; Sources; Temporal trends

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WIND;

SEASONAL TRENDS; WIND DIRECTION;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; ORGANOCHLORINE; PCB; PESTICIDE; SEASONALITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

AIR ANALYSIS; AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; HUMIDITY; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE; UNITED KINGDOM; WIND;

BIRMINGHAM [ENGLAND]; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 1142285441     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2003.12.002     Document Type: Article

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