Long-term temporal variability in hydrogen peroxide concentrations in Wilmington, North Carolina USA rainwater

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 9538-9542

  Mullaugh, Katherine M ^a   Kieber, Robert J ^a   Willey, Joan D ^a   Avery, G Brooks ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VOLUMES; ATMOSPHERIC WATER; COMPOSITIONAL CHANGES; CONTINUOUS DATA; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE CONCENTRATION; INORGANIC ANIONS; NORTH CAROLINA; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; OXIDATION CAPACITY; RAIN EVENTS; REDOX CHEMISTRY; SINGLE LOCATION; SINGLE SITES; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TIME-SCALES; TROPOSPHERIC SINK; WET DEPOSITION;

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; FREE RADICALS; HYDROGEN; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; ORGANIC CARBON; OXIDATION; RAIN; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY;

FREE RADICAL; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; RAIN; SULFUR ACID DERIVATIVE; SURFACE WATER;

ANNUAL VARIATION; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; LONG-TERM CHANGE; PH; RAINWATER; REDOX CONDITIONS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIMESCALE; VOLUME; WET DEPOSITION;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; OXIDATION KINETICS; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; UNITED STATES; WATER TRANSPORT;

CARBON; CHLORIDES; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; NITRATES; NORTH CAROLINA; RAIN; SULFATES;

NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES; WILMINGTON [NORTH CAROLINA];

EID: 81055147859     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es202634s     Document Type: Article

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