A modified technique for field measurements of dry deposition fluxes of polychlorinated biphenyls in tropical regions

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 387, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 283-288

  Wurl, Oliver ^a   Obbard, Jeffrey Philip ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Dry deposition, Polychlorinated biphenyls, Singapore

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; SONICATION;

DRY DEPOSITION; SURROGATE SURFACE;

POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS;

POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; RAIN;

DRY DEPOSITION; EXTRACTION METHOD; FIELD METHOD; FLUX MEASUREMENT; PCB; SAMPLING; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

ARTICLE; DRY DEPOSITION; FIELD WORK; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MEASUREMENT; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SEASHORE; SINGAPORE; TECHNIQUE; TROPIC CLIMATE; TROPICS; ULTRASOUND; URBAN AREA; VALIDATION PROCESS;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEASONS; SINGAPORE; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

ASIA; EURASIA; SINGAPORE [SOUTHEAST ASIA]; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 36649030836     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2007.07.056     Document Type: Article

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