Post-Hurricane Katrina passive sampling of ambient volatile organic compounds in the greater New Orleans area

Environmental Research

Volumn 109, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 943-951

  Chung, Kuenja C ^a   Stock, Thomas H ^b   Smith, Luther A ^c   Afshar, Masoud ^b   Liao, Xiaojuan L ^c   Stallings, Casson ^c  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c ALION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambient air quality; Hurricane Katrina; Method evaluation; Passive samplers; Temporal and spatial analyses; Volatile organic compounds (VOCs)

Indexed keywords

VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

AIR POLLUTANT; ARTICLE; CYCLONE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; QUALITY CONTROL; UNITED STATES;

AIR POLLUTANTS; CYCLONES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LOUISIANA; QUALITY CONTROL; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 70350463560     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2009.08.006     Document Type: Article

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