Monitoring of volatile organic compounds in the cities of the metropolitan area of Bari (Italy)

Procedia Environmental Sciences

Volumn 4, Issue , 2011, Pages 126-133

  Amodio, Martino ^a   De Gennaro, Gianluigi ^a   Marzocca, Annalisa ^a   Trizio, Livia ^a   Tutino, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Metropolitan area; Vehicular traffic; VOC

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; AIRPORT VEHICULAR TRAFFIC; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

CONCENTRATION PATTERNS; DIFFUSIVE SAMPLERS; METROPOLITAN AREA; SINGLE SOURCE; URBAN AIR QUALITY; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND (VOC);

URBAN GROWTH;

EID: 79955410069     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18780296     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.proenv.2011.03.015     Document Type: Conference Paper

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