Spatiotemporal distribution of airborne elements monitored with the moss bags technique in the Greater Thriasion Plain, Attica, Greece

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 185, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 955-968

  Saitanis, C J ^a   Frontasyeva, M V ^b   Steinnes, E ^c   Palmer, M W ^d   Ostrovnaya, T M ^b   Gundorina, S F ^b  

^a AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b JOINT INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^d OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aluminum; Antimony; Arsenic; Barium; Bromine; Calcium; Chlorine; Chromium; Cobalt; Heavy metals; Iodine; Iron; Lanthanum; Manganese; Mercury; Molybdenum; Nickel; Pollution; Scandium; Selenium; Sodium; Strontium; Titanium; Uranium; Vanadium; Zinc

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT AIR; COMMON SOURCE; HIGHER LOADS; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; INDUSTRIAL ZONES; MONITORING STATIONS; MOSS-BAGS; PEARSON CORRELATION; REDUNDANCY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SPATIOTEMPORAL DISTRIBUTIONS; SPHAGNUM GIRGENSOHNII; TEMPORAL VARIATION; VOLATILIZATION PROCESS;

ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; ALUMINUM; ANTIMONY; ARSENIC; BARIUM; BROMINE; CALCIUM; CHLORINE; CHROMIUM; COBALT; HAFNIUM; HEAVY METALS; IODINE; IRON; LANTHANUM; LEACHING; MANGANESE; MERCURY (METAL); MOLYBDENUM; NICKEL; POLLUTION; SCANDIUM; SELENIUM; SODIUM; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TITANIUM; URANIUM; VANADIUM; YTTERBIUM; ZINC;

STRONTIUM;

ALUMINUM; ANTIMONY; ARSENIC; BARIUM; BROMINE; CALCIUM; CERIUM; CHLORIDE; CHROMIUM; COBALT; DYSPROSIUM; HAFNIUM; IODINE; IRON; LANTHANUM; MANGANESE; MERCURY; MOLYBDENUM; NICKEL; SAMARIUM; SCANDIUM; SELENIUM; SODIUM; STRONTIUM; TERBIUM; TITANIUM; UNINDEXED DRUG; VANADIUM; YTTERBIUM; ZINC;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; HEAVY METAL; MOSS; POLLUTION MONITORING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION;

AIR MONITORING; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GREECE; LEACHING; POLLUTION MONITORING; SPHAGNUM; SPHAGNUM GIRGENSOHNII; VOLATILIZATION;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; BRYOPHYTA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GREECE; SEASONS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ATTICA; GREECE;

BRYOPHYTA; SPHAGNUM GIRGENSOHNII;

EID: 84871957111     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-012-2606-0     Document Type: Article

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