Identifying priority pollutant sources: Apportioning air toxics risks using positive matrix factorization

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 9439-9444

  Logue, Jennifer M ^a   Small, Mitchell J ^a   Robinson, Allen L ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TOXICS; BUS ROUTE; CANCER RISK; CHEMICAL FACILITY; DECISION MAKERS; DRY CLEANERS; GASPHASE; HAZARDOUS AIR POLLUTANTS; HEALTH EFFECTS; INDUSTRIAL SOURCES; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; MOBILE SOURCE EMISSIONS; PENNSYLVANIA; PITTSBURGH; POINT SOURCES; POSITIVE MATRIX FACTORIZATION; PRIORITY POLLUTANTS; RESIDENTIAL SITE; RISK MODEL; RISK REDUCTIONS; SOURCE CONTRIBUTIONS; SOURCE PROFILES; TIME RESOLVED MEASUREMENT; URBAN BACKGROUND;

AIR POLLUTION; BENZENE; FACTORIZATION; INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS; LIGHT MEASUREMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT;

HEALTH RISKS;

BENZENE; COKE; TOXIC GAS;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BENZENE; CANCER; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH RISK; INDUSTRIAL EMISSION; POLLUTANT SOURCE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; GAS; HEALTH HAZARD; INDUSTRIAL AREA; MEASUREMENT; METHODOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

PENNSYLVANIA; PITTSBURGH; UNITED STATES;

EID: 72849107025     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es901683j     Document Type: Article

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