Apportioning and locating nonmethane hydrocarbon sources to a background site in Korea

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 5849-5854

  Choi, Eunhwa ^a   Heo, Jong Bae ^a   Yi, Seung Muk ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR MASS; BACK TRAJECTORIES; BACKGROUND MONITORING SITES; EQUIVALENT CONCENTRATIONS; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; MAXIMUM INCREMENTAL REACTIVITIES; MIXING RATIOS; NON-METHANE HYDROCARBONS; OIL AND GAS FIELDS; OZONE FORMATION; POSITIVE MATRIX FACTORIZATION; POTENTIAL SOURCE CONTRIBUTION FUNCTION; POTENTIAL SOURCES; SHANDONG; SOUTH KOREA; VEHICLE EXHAUSTS;

GAS INDUSTRY; OIL FIELDS; OZONE; PARAFFINS; PROPYLENE;

ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

ACETYLENE; ALKANE; BENZENE; BUTANE; ETHANE; ETHYLBENZENE; ETHYLENE; HYDROCARBON; ISOPRENE; PROPANE; PROPYLENE; TOLUENE; XYLENE;

AIR MASS; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; COMBUSTION; GAS FIELD; MIXING RATIO; NONMETHANE HYDROCARBON; OIL FIELD; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRAFFIC EMISSION;

ARTICLE; CARBON SOURCE; CHINA; COMBUSTION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); EXHAUST GAS; KOREA; SUMMER; TROPOSPHERE;

AIR POLLUTANTS; DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KOREA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HYDROCARBONS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; OZONE;

CHINA; INCHEON [SOUTH KOREA]; KOREA; SEOKMO ISLAND; SHANDONG; SOUTH KOREA;

EID: 77955109098     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es903634e     Document Type: Article

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