Measures of overall persistence and the temporal remote state

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 38, Issue 21, 2004, Pages 5665-5673

  Stroebe, Maximilian ^a   Scheringer, Martin ^a   Hungerbühler, Konrad ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR; BENCHMARKING; CORRELATION METHODS; GAS EMISSIONS; SOILS; WATER;

DYNAMIC MULTIMEDIA MODELS; PERSISTENCE; PHASE PARTITIONING; TEMPORAL REMOTE STATES;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

CHEMICAL COMPOUND; WATER;

CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; RESIDENCE TIME;

AIR; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DYNAMICS; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; MASS; MEASUREMENT; MODEL; QUALITY CONTROL; SOIL; STEADY STATE; TEMPORAL REMOTE STATE; TIME;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; HALF-LIFE; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; KINETICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 7444271525     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es035443s     Document Type: Article

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