Near-road multipollutant profiles: Associations between volatile organic compounds and a tracer gas surrogate near a busy highway

Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 594-603

  Barzyk, Timothy M ^a   Ciesielski, Anna ^a   Shores, Richard C ^b   Thoma, Eben D ^b   Seila, Robert L ^a   Isakov, Vlad ^a   Baldauf, Richard W ^a,b  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GASES; MIXTURES; MOBILE POWER PLANTS; ROADS AND STREETS; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

CHEMICAL CONCENTRATIONS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHS; MULTIPLE POLLUTANTS; MULTIPOLLUTANT MIXTURES; PEARSON CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; POLLUTANT DISPERSIONS; WASTE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION;

POLLUTION;

BENZENE; ETHYLBENZENE; ORTHO XYLENE; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE; TOLUENE; TRACER; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISEASE MARKER; ELECTRON CAPTURE DETECTION; ENVIRONMENT; GAS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HIGHWAY; POLLUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; UNITED STATES; AIR; AIR POLLUTANT; CHEMISTRY; EXHAUST GAS; INFRARED SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

AIR MOVEMENTS; AIR POLLUTANTS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; FLAME IONIZATION; NORTH CAROLINA; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE; VEHICLE EMISSIONS; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84863571758     PISSN: 10962247     EISSN: 21622906     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10473289.2012.656819     Document Type: Article

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