Multi-season, multi-year concentrations and correlations amongst the BTEX group of VOCs in an urbanized industrial city

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 61, Issue , 2012, Pages 305-315

  Miller, Lindsay ^a   Xu, Xiaohong ^a   Grgicak Mannion, Alice ^b   Brook, Jeffrey ^c   Wheeler, Amanda ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^d HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Air quality; BTEX; Spatial variability; Temporal variability; VOCs

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY MONITORING; ANNUAL AVERAGE; ANNUAL MEAN; BTEX; CENTRAL MONITORING STATIONS; EXPOSURE MISCLASSIFICATION; HIGH-TO-LOW; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; INDUSTRIAL CITY; LONG TERM MONITORING; MEAN CONCENTRATIONS; MEAN VALUES; MONITORING SITES; MULTIPLE SAMPLING; O-XYLENE; ONTARIO , CANADA; ORGANIC VAPORS; RANK ORDER; SAMPLING PERIOD; SEASONAL PATTERNS; SEASONAL TRENDS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; SPATIAL NETWORK; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; SPRING CONCENTRATION; STUDY DESIGN; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; URBAN AREAS; VOCS; WINDSOR;

AIR QUALITY; BENZENE; ETHYLBENZENE; TOLUENE; VAPORS; XYLENE;

IMPORTANCE SAMPLING;

BENZENE; ETHYLBENZENE; NITROGEN OXIDE; ORTHO XYLENE; OZONE; PARA XYLENE; TOLUENE;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BTEX; CORRELATION; INDUSTRIAL EMISSION; INDUSTRIAL LOCATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; URBAN ATMOSPHERE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; COLD; INDUSTRIAL AREA; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASON; SPRING; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION; WINTER;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA]; WINDSOR;

EID: 84864915850     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2012.07.041     Document Type: Article

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