Kosetice, Czech Republic - ten years of air pollution monitoring and four years of evaluating the origin of persistent organic pollutants

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 156, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 403-408

  Dvorska, Alice ^a   Lammel, Gerhard ^a,d   Klanova, Jana ^a   Holoubek, Ivan ^a,b,c  

^a MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b TOCOEN   (Czech Republic)

^c National POPs Centre of the Czech Republic   (Czech Republic)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Background observatory; Backward trajectories; Data evaluation; Persistent organic pollutants; Potential source contribution function PSCF

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND OBSERVATORY; BACKWARD TRAJECTORIES; DATA EVALUATION; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; POTENTIAL SOURCE CONTRIBUTION FUNCTION PSCF;

AIR QUALITY; AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; BUILDINGS; FUNCTIONS; HYDROCARBONS; LAND USE; OBSERVATORIES; POLLUTION; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

ORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

AIR QUALITY; AMBIENT AIR; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DDT; HCH; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; POLLUTION MONITORING;

CENTRAL EUROPE; CZECH REPUBLIC; EURASIA; EUROPE; KOSETICE; VYSOCINA;

CHLOROBENZENE; CHLORPHENOTANE; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; LINDANE; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PENTACHLOROBENZENE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON;

AGRICULTURE; AIR; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CITY; CZECH REPUBLIC; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUROPE; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICS; TREE;

AGRICULTURE; AIR MOVEMENTS; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; CHLOROBENZENES; CITIES; CZECH REPUBLIC; DDT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUROPE; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; LINDANE; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; TREES;

EID: 58149151438     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2008.01.034     Document Type: Article

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