Annual time series of air concentrations of polyfluorinated compounds

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 4029-4036

  Dreyer, Annekatrin ^a   Matthias, Volker ^a   Temme, Christian ^a,b   Ebinghaus, Ralf ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b Eurofins Medinet Inc   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR CONCENTRATIONS; AIR MASS; ANALYTES; ANNUAL TIME SERIES; BACKGROUND LEVEL; BACKWARD TRAJECTORY ANALYSIS; DIFFUSE SOURCES; DRIVING PARAMETERS; FLUOROTELOMER ALCOHOLS; GASPHASE; GERMANY; GLASS FIBER FILTERS; HIGH CONCENTRATION; HPLC-MS/MS; NON-VOLATILE; PARTICLE PHASE; PERFLUORINATED SULFONAMIDES; PERFLUOROOCTANE SULFONATES; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT;

AMIDES; AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; CARBOXYLATION; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; GAS DYNAMICS; GAS EMISSIONS; GLASS FIBERS; LEAKAGE (FLUID); ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

AC GENERATOR MOTORS;

ALCOHOL; CARBOXYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; FLUOROTELOMER ALCOHOL; ORGANOFLUORINE DERIVATIVE; PERFLUORO COMPOUND; PERFLUOROOCTANESULFONIC ACID; POLYFLUORINATED ORGANIC COMPOUND; SULFONAMIDE; SULFONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AIR MASS; AIR QUALITY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); TIME SERIES; VOLATILE SUBSTANCE;

AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; GERMANY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METEOROLOGY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GERMANY; HYDROCARBONS, FLUORINATED; TIME FACTORS;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; HAMBURG [GERMANY];

EID: 66249113543     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es900257w     Document Type: Article

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