Occurrence and diurnal variation of polychlorinated biphenyls and polybrominated diphenyl ethers in the background atmosphere of Eastern Mediterranean

Chemosphere

Volumn 77, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1161-1167

  Iacovidou, Eleni ^a   Mandalakis, Manolis ^a   Stephanou, Euripides G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Atmospheric transport; Background aerosols; Degradation; PBDEs; PCBs; Principal component analysis

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; DEGRADATION; ETHERS; METEOROLOGY; PHOTOLYSIS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REACTION KINETICS;

AIR MASS BACK TRAJECTORIES; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; BACKGROUND AEROSOL; GAS-PHASE CONCENTRATION; HYDROXYL RADICAL REACTIONS; PBDES; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER (PBDES); POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL (PCBS);

ORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

HYDROXYL RADICAL; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; POLYURETHAN FOAM;

AEROSOL; AIR MASS; AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; DIURNAL VARIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; HYDROXYL RADICAL; PBDE; PCB; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL REACTION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTOLYSIS; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 71749101095     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2009.09.043     Document Type: Article

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