Comparing Air Dispersion Model Predictions with Measured Concentrations of VOCs in Urban Communities

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1949-1959

  Pratt, Gregory C ^a   Wu, Chun Yi ^a   Bock, Don ^a   Adgate, John L ^b   Ramachandran, Gurumurthy ^b   Stock, Thomas H ^c   Morandi, Maria ^c   Sexton, Ken ^b,d  

^a MINNESOTA POLLUTION CONTROL AGENCY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT BROWNSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLLUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; THERMAL PLUMES; URBAN PLANNING;

AIR DISPERSION MODEL;

VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

BENZENE; CHLOROFORM; DICHLOROMETHANE; ETHYLBENZENE; STYRENE; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE; TOLUENE; TRICHLOROETHYLENE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND; XYLENE;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; DISPERSION; MODELING; URBAN ATMOSPHERE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

AIR MONITORING; AIR POLLUTANT; ARTICLE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; URBAN POPULATION;

AIR MOVEMENTS; AIR POLLUTANTS; CITIES; FORECASTING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VOLATILIZATION;

MINNEAPOLIS; MINNESOTA; NORTH AMERICA; SAINT PAUL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 1842679092     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es030638l     Document Type: Article

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