Variation in particulate PAHs levels and their relation with the transboundary movement of the air masses

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 396, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 100-110

  Ravindra, Khaiwal ^a,b   Wauters, Eric ^c   Van Grieken, René ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^c Vlaamse Milieumaatschappij   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Backward air mass trajectories; Combustion emission; Long range transport; Nonalkylated PAHs; PAHs; Pressurized liquid extraction

Indexed keywords

CARCINOGENS; COMBUSTION; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EXTRACTION; MAMMALS;

BACKWARD AIR MASS TRAJECTORIES; COMBUSTION EMISSION; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; PRESSURIZED LIQUID EXTRACTION;

POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS;

POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON;

AIR MASS; CARCINOGEN; COMBUSTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; PAH; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; TRAFFIC EMISSION;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EXHAUST GAS; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION;

AIR MOVEMENTS; AIR POLLUTANTS; BELGIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; SEASONS;

ARCTIC; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BELGIUM; BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; MENEN; WEST FLANDERS; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 42449147484     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.02.018     Document Type: Article

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