Measurement and modeling of urban atmospheric PCB concentrations on a small (8 km) spatial scale

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 40, Issue 40, 2006, Pages 7940-7952

  Totten, Lisa A ^a   Stenchikov, Georgiy ^a   Gigliotti, Cari L ^a   Lahoti, Nilesh ^a   Eisenreich, Steven J ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Harbor; HYPACT; New Jersey; New York; Persistent organic pollutants; RAMS; Transport modeling

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DEPOSITION; ECOSYSTEMS; EXTRAPOLATION; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; PORTS AND HARBORS; URBAN PLANNING;

HYBRID PARTICLE AND CONCENTRATION TRANSPORT MODEL (HYPACT); NEW JERSEY; NEW YORK; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; REGIONAL ATMOSPHERIC MODEL SYSTEM (RAMS); TRANSPORT MODELING;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY;

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; PCB; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTION MONITORING; URBAN ATMOSPHERE;

AQUITAINE; BAYONNE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; JERSEY CITY; NEW JERSEY; NEW YORK [NEW YORK (STT)]; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; PYRENEES-ATLANTIQUES; UNITED STATES; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33751002626     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2006.07.019     Document Type: Article

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