Temporal trends and controlling factors for polychlorinated biphenyls in the UK atmosphere (1991-2008)

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 8068-8074

  Schuster, Jasmin K ^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; AIR MONITORING; CLEARANCE RATES; CONTROLLING FACTORS; DATA SETS; EMISSIONS INVENTORY; LOCAL POPULATIONS; MICROPOLLUTANTS; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; PRIMARY EMISSIONS; PRIMARY SOURCES; REGIONAL SCALE; TEMPORAL TRENDS; UNITED KINGDOM; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS; URBAN MONITORING;

AIR POLLUTION; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS;

ORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

DATA SET; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PCB; POLLUTION MONITORING; POPULATION DENSITY; TEMPORAL VARIATION; URBAN ATMOSPHERE; URBANIZATION;

AIR POLLUTION; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; RURAL AREA; URBAN AREA;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GREAT BRITAIN; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 78549268835     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es102134d     Document Type: Article

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