Examination of the U.S. EPA's vapor intrusion database based on models

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1425-1433

  Yao, Yijun ^a,b   Shen, Rui ^a   Pennell, Kelly G ^a,c   Suuberg, Eric M ^a  

^a Brown University   (United States)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c University of Massachusetts Dartmouth   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION FACTORS; INDOOR AIR CONCENTRATION; INVERSE RELATIONSHIP; SOIL VAPORS; SUBSURFACE SOURCE; UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY; VAPOR CONCENTRATIONS; VAPOR INTRUSION; VAPOR INTRUSION MODELS;

DATABASE SYSTEMS; MODELS;

VAPORS;

GROUND WATER;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DATABASE; INDOOR AIR; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOIL EMISSION; VAPOR PRESSURE;

AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DATA BASE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GOVERNMENT; INDOOR AIR CONCENTRATION ATTENUATION FACTOR; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; SOIL VAPOR TRANSPORT; SUBSURFACE SOURCE VAPOR CONCENTRATION; TRANSPORT KINETICS; VAPOR; VAPOR INTRUSION; WATER CONTAMINATION;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GROUNDWATER; MODELS, THEORETICAL; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY; VOLATILIZATION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84873473456     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es304546f     Document Type: Article

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