Assessment of variations in atmospheric PCDD/Fs by Asian dust in Southeastern Korea

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 41, Issue 28, 2007, Pages 5876-5886

  Lee, Se Jin ^a   Park, Hyokeun ^a   Choi, Sung Deuk ^b   Lee, Jae Min ^a   Chang, Yoon Seok ^a  

^a Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Asian dust; Back trajectory; Gas particle partitioning; PCDD Fs; TSP

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DUST; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS;

ATMOSPHERIC CONCENTRATIONS; BACK TRAJECTORY; GAS/PARTICLE PARTITIONING; TOTAL SUSPENDED PARTICULATES (TSP);

FURAN RESINS;

CARBON 13; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZODIOXIN; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZOFURAN;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DUST; PARTITIONING; PCDD; PCDF; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; ASIA; ATMOSPHERE; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GAS; ISOTOPE LABELING; KOREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAND; SPRING; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; KOREA;

EID: 34547685927     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2007.03.025     Document Type: Article

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