Transport of semivolatile organic compounds to the tibetan plateau: Spatial and temporal variation in air concentrations in mountainous western sichuan, China

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1559-1565

  Liu, Wenjie ^a,b   Chen, Dazhou ^a,c   Liu, Xiande ^a   Zheng, Z ^a   Wen, Yang ^a   Westgate, John N ^d   Frank, Wania ^d  

^a CHINESE RESEARCH ACADEMY OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^c National Research Centre for Certified Reference Materials   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR CONCENTRATIONS; AIR MASS TRAJECTORIES; ALTITUDINAL TRANSECT; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; CHENGDU; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; HEXACHLOROCYCLOHEXANES; HIGH RESOLUTION MASS SPECTROMETRY; HIGHER TEMPERATURES; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDES; PASSIVE AIR SAMPLER; PCB CONGENERS; RELATED COMPOUNDS; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SAMPLING PERIOD; SAMPLING SITE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEMIVOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SICHUAN BASIN; SOURCE REGION; SPACE AND TIME; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIBETAN PLATEAU; TIME VALUES; WESTERN CHINA; WESTERN SICHUAN;

FUNGICIDES; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LANDFORMS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OCEANOGRAPHY; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; RESINS;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS);

1,1 DICHLORO 2,2 BIS(4 CHLOROPHENYL)ETHYLENE; ALPHA HEXACHLOROCYCLOHEXANE; CHLORPHENOTANE; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; HEXACHLOROCYCLOHEXANE; LINDANE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; RESIN;

AIR QUALITY; AIR SAMPLING; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOUNTAIN REGION; ORGANOCHLORINE; PCB; PESTICIDE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SEASONAL VARIATION; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR SAMPLER; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVAPORATION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GEOGRAPHIC ELEVATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; SEA LEVEL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOIL; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; WINTER;

AIR; ALTITUDE; CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; LINDANE; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PESTICIDES; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; SEASONS; TIBET;

CHINA; SICHUAN;

EID: 77749271065     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es902764z     Document Type: Article

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