Background atmospheric levels of BTEX in a medium-sized city and surrounding area in Southern Italy

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 86, Issue , 2006, Pages 611-618

  Iovino, P ^a   Salvestrini, S ^a   Capasso, S ^a  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

Author keywords

BTEX; Caserta city; Medium sized city; Monitoring; Urban air quality

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; BTEX; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; MEASUREMENT METHOD; SEASONAL VARIATION; URBAN ATMOSPHERE;

CAMPANIA [ITALY]; CASERTA; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; NAPLES; NAPOLI [CAMPANIA]; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 36148984589     PISSN: 17433541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2495/AIR06060     Document Type: Article

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