Local and distant residence times of contaminants in multi-compartment models. Part I: A review of the theoretical basis

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 156, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1196-1203

  Mackay, Don ^a   Reid, Liisa ^a  

^a TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fugacity; Long range transport potential; Modelling; Residence times

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC RESPONSE; HEARING AIDS; IMPURITIES; STEEL STRUCTURES;

APPROXIMATE SOLUTIONS; COLD CONDENSATIONS; COMPARTMENT MODELS; EMISSION RATES; ENVIRONMENTAL MOBILITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSPORTS; FUGACITY; LONG-RANGE TRANSPORT POTENTIAL; MODELLING; MULTIMEDIA MODELS; NOVEL CONCEPTS; RANGE TRANSPORTS; RESIDENCE TIMES; TIME DEPENDENCES; VARIOUS CONFIGURATIONS;

CONTAMINATION;

EMISSION; FUGACITY; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; MODELING; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; RESIDENCE TIME;

AIR ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; FRACTIONATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; POLLUTION; SOIL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE; WATER ANALYSIS;

AIR MOVEMENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TIME; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 55649123238     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2008.04.012     Document Type: Article

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