Temporal moisture content variability beneath and external to a building and the potential effects on vapor intrusion risk assessment

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 379, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-15

  Tillman Jr , Fred D ^a,b   Weaver, James W ^b  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Johnson and Ettinger; Risk assessment; Soil moisture; Vapor intrusion; Volatile organic compounds

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOIL MOISTURE; TOXIC MATERIALS; VAPORS; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

BUILDING INSTRUMENTION; MOISTURE CONTENTS; ORGANIC VAPORS; VAPOR INTRUSION;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

ORGANIC COMPOUND; RAIN;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CONTAMINATED LAND; HEALTH RISK; INDOOR AIR; MOISTURE CONTENT; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; POLLUTION MONITORING; RAINFALL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL POLLUTION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; BUILDING; CANCER RISK; CONTAMINATION; EXPOSURE; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOISTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL MOISTURE; TOXICITY; VAPOR; VAPOR PRESSURE; VAPORIZATION; WATER FLOW;

AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEOPLASMS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS; VOLATILIZATION; WATER;

EID: 34247647021     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2007.02.003     Document Type: Article

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