Exposure modeling of benzene exploiting passive-active sampling data

Environmental Modeling and Assessment

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 283-294

  Karakitsios, Spyros P ^a   Kassomenos, Pavlos A ^b   Sarigiannis, Dimosthenis A ^a   Pilidis, Georgios A ^b  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Activity patterns; Benzene; Exposure; Passive active sampling

Indexed keywords

BENZENE; EXPOSURE CONTROLS; PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS; ROADS AND STREETS; SAMPLING; SMOKE; TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

ACTIVE SAMPLING; ACTIVITY PATTERNS; ENVIRONMENTAL TOBACCO SMOKES; EXPOSURE; METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATION; PERSONAL EXPOSURES; REGRESSION COEFFICIENT; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION;

INDOOR AIR POLLUTION;

ACTIVITY PATTERN; AIR SAMPLING; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BENZENE; DATA; POLLUTION EXPOSURE;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 77954244525     PISSN: 14202026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10666-009-9206-6     Document Type: Article

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