Chemometric assessment of the semivolatile organic contaminants content in the atmosphere of the selected sites in the Republic of Macedonia

Journal of Chemometrics

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 262-274

  Stafilov, Trajče ^a   Škrbić, Biljana ^b   Klánová, Jana ^c   Čupr, Pavel ^c   Holoubek, Ivan ^c   Kočov, Marin ^d   Durišić Mladenović, Nataša ^b  

^a SS CYRIL AND METHODIUS UNIVERSITY   (Macedonia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD   (Serbia)

^c MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^d Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning   (Macedonia)

Author keywords

Atmosphere; Multivariate analysis; Rural; Semivolatile organic compounds; Urban

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; INSECTICIDES; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WIND;

ATMOSPHERIC CONCENTRATION; CHEMOMETRICES; MULTI VARIATE ANALYSIS; ORGANOCHLORINATED COMPOUNDS; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDES; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA; SEMI-VOLATILE ORGANIC CONTAMINANTS; SEMIVOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; URBAN;

POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS;

EID: 79956336359     PISSN: 08869383     EISSN: 1099128X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cem.1374     Document Type: Article

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