Regressing gas/particle partitioning data for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 3558-3564

  Su, Yushan ^a   Lei, Ying Duan ^a   Wania, Frank ^a   Shoeib, Mahiba ^b   Harner, Tom ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAS/PARTICLE PARTITIONING; JUNGE-PANKOW EQUATION; MAGNITUDE; MODEL FITTING;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ERROR CORRECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHASE SEPARATION; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

FORESTRY;

BENZ[A]ANTHRACENE; BENZO[A]PYRENE; BENZO[B]FLUORANTHENE; BENZO[GHI]PERYLENE; BENZO[K]FLUORANTHENE; CHRYSENE; DIBENZ[A,H]ANTHRACENE; DIBENZODIOXIN DERIVATIVE; FLUORANTHENE; FLUORENE; INDENO[1,2,3 CD]PYRENE; PHENANTHRENE; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; PYRENE;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ERROR CORRECTION; FORESTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHASE SEPARATION; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

PAH; RURAL ATMOSPHERE;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CANADA; CARCINOGENICITY; DESORPTION; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EXTRACTION; FOREST; FREEZING; GAS; IONIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; QUALITY CONTROL; RURAL AREA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VAPORIZATION;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ALGORITHMS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GASES; LOGISTIC MODELS; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC;

CONCENTRATION; FORESTRY; HYDROCARBONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEPARATION;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO;

EID: 33744787327     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es052496w     Document Type: Article

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