Using a source-receptor approach to characterise VOC behaviour in a French urban area influenced by industrial emissions Part I: Study area description, data set acquisition and qualitative data analysis of the data set

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 389, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 441-452

  Badol, Caroline ^a   Locoge, Nadine ^a   Léonardis, Thierry ^a   Galloo, Jean Claude ^a  

^a ECOLE DES MINES DE DOUAI   (France)

Author keywords

Industrial emissions; Multiple source influence; On line VOC monitoring; VOC ambient concentrations; VOC temporal evolution; Wind directions

Indexed keywords

EVAPORATION; INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WIND;

CHEMICAL MASS BALANCE; GRAPHICAL METHODS; METEOROLOGICAL PARAMETERS; MULTIPLE SOURCE INFLUENCE;

VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

ACETYLENE; BENZENE; BUTANE; ETHANE; ETHYLBENZENE; ETHYLENE; PROPANE; PROPYLENE; TOLUENE;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA SET; INDUSTRIAL EMISSION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TRAFFIC EMISSION; URBAN AREA; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND; WIND DIRECTION;

AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DATA ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FIELD EMISSION; INDUSTRIAL AREA; MEASUREMENT; METEOROLOGY; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA; VELOCITY; WIND;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FRANCE; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; INDUSTRY; MODELS, CHEMICAL; RESEARCH DESIGN; SEASONS; URBANIZATION; VOLATILIZATION; WIND;

DUNKERQUE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; NORD [NORD-PAS-DE-CALAIS]; NORD-PAS-DE-CALAIS; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 36048953359     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2007.09.003     Document Type: Article

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