Quantification of sources of PCBs to the atmosphere in urban areas: A comparison of cities in North America, Western Europe and former Yugoslavia

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 158, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 3230-3235

  Gasic, Bojan ^a   MacLeod, Matthew ^a   Klanova, Jana ^b   Scheringer, Martin ^a   Ilic, Predrag ^c   Lammel, Gerhard ^b,d   Pajovic, Aleksandar ^e   Breivik, Knut ^f,g   Holoubek, Ivan ^b   Hungerbühler, Konrad ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c Ecology and Informatics   (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^e Republic Hydrometeorological Institute Banja Luka   (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

^f NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH   (Norway)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Emission source strength; Former Yugoslavia; Multimedia modeling; Polychlorinated biphenyls; Sampling campaign

Indexed keywords

CHICAGO; CIVIL WAR; EMISSION FACTORS; EMISSION RATES; EMISSION SOURCE STRENGTH; MASS-BALANCE MODELING; MULTIMEDIA MODELING; NORTH AMERICAN; PCB EMISSIONS; SAMPLING CAMPAIGN; SWITZERLAND; URBAN AREAS; WESTERN EUROPE; YUGOSLAVIA;

ORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS;

POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL DERIVATIVE;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; EMISSION INVENTORY; ESTIMATION METHOD; MASS BALANCE; MODELING; PCB; URBAN AREA;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; METEOROLOGY; NORTH AMERICA; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; QUALITY CONTROL; SWITZERLAND; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; WESTERN EUROPE; YUGOSLAVIA;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERE; CITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUROPE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NORTH AMERICA; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; YUGOSLAVIA;

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA; CHICAGO; ILLINOIS; SWITZERLAND; UNITED STATES; ZURICH [SWITZERLAND];

EID: 77958164631     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2010.07.011     Document Type: Article

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