A map of European emissions and concentrations of PFOS and PFOA

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 9237-9244

  Pistocchi, Alberto ^a   Loos, Robert ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL AREA; DISTRIBUTED DATA; INDUSTRIAL FACILITIES; LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS; LOGLINEAR MODEL; LUMPED LOADS; POINT SOURCES; REGRESSION EQUATION; RIVER BASINS; RIVER FLOW; RIVER NETWORK;

COASTAL ZONES; INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS; LINEAR REGRESSION; RIVERS; RUNOFF;

CATCHMENTS;

PERFLUOROOCTANOIC ACID; PERFLUOROOCTANSULFONATE; POLYMER; SULFONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISCHARGE; EMISSION INVENTORY; INDUSTRIAL EMISSION; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; ORGANOFLUORINE; POINT SOURCE POLLUTION; RIVER BASIN; WATER POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; CATCHMENT; CLIMATE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); EUROPE; INDUSTRY; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LIQUID; POPULATION; RIVER; RIVER BASIN; SEASHORE;

ALKANESULFONIC ACIDS; EUROPE; FLUOROCARBONS; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; OCTANOIC ACIDS; RIVERS; SEWAGE; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EUROPE;

EID: 72849129458     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es901246d     Document Type: Article

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