Continuous monitoring of PCDD/Fs in the UK atmosphere: 1991-2008

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 5735-5740

  Katsoyiannis, Athanasios ^a   Gioia, Rosalinda ^a   Sweetman, Andrew J ^a   Jones, Kevin C ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR CONCENTRATIONS; AMBIENT AIR; AMBIENT CONCENTRATIONS; ATMOSPHERIC EMISSION; ATMOSPHERIC HALF-LIVES; COMBUSTION SOURCES; CONTINUOUS MONITORING; ENERGY REQUIREMENTS; FIRST ORDER KINETICS; MANCHESTER; MONITORING PROGRAMS; PCDD/FS; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZO-P-DIOXINS AND DIBENZOFURANS; ROUTINE MONITORING; URBAN AREAS;

AIR POLLUTION; HEATING; MONITORING; RURAL AREAS; TIME SERIES;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS);

DIBENZOFURAN DERIVATIVE; FUEL; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZODIOXIN;

AMBIENT AIR; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; DIBENZOFURAN; EMISSION INVENTORY; PCDD; POLLUTION MONITORING; REACTION KINETICS; SAMPLING; TIME SERIES;

AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; COMBUSTION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EXHAUST GAS; HEATING; RURAL AREA; SEASONAL VARIATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UNITED KINGDOM; URBAN AREA;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERE; BENZOFURANS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GREAT BRITAIN; TETRACHLORODIBENZODIOXIN;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 77955118947     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es1009828     Document Type: Article

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