Geography of asbestos contamination near the World Trade Center site

Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 461-471

  Thayer, William C ^a   Griffith, Daniel A ^b   Diamond, Gary L ^a  

^a SYRACUSE RESEARCH CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Asbestos; Auto Poisson distribution; Spatial autocorrelation; Spatial filter; WorldTrade Center

Indexed keywords

ASBESTOS; INDOOR AIR; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTION MONITORING; PROBABILITY; WORLD TRADE CENTER;

EID: 34347388901     PISSN: 14363240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00477-007-0129-y     Document Type: Article

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