Urban BTEX spatiotemporal exposure assessment by chemometric expertise

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 224, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Astel, Aleksander Maria ^a   Giorgini, Luigi ^b,d   Mistaro, Andrea ^b   Pellegrini, Italo ^b   Cozzutto, Sergio ^c,d   Barbieri, Pierluigi ^c  

^a POMERANIAN UNIVERSITY IN S UPSK   (Poland)

^b Department and Laboratory of Trieste   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^d ARCO Solutions srl   (Italy)

Author keywords

BTEX; Passive samplers; Self organizing maps; Spatiotemporal trends; Trieste; Urban zonation

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; BENZENE; CONFORMAL MAPPING; ETHYLBENZENE; TOLUENE; URBAN PLANNING; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; WIND; XYLENE;

BTEX; PASSIVE SAMPLERS; SPATIOTEMPORAL TRENDS; TRIESTE; URBAN ZONATION;

SELF ORGANIZING MAPS;

BENZENE; ETHYLBENZENE; FUEL; GASOLINE; TOLUENE; XYLENE;

AIR QUALITY; ASSESSMENT METHOD; BENZENE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; URBAN PLANNING; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND; ZONATION;

AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; CHEMOMETRIC ANALYSIS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; ITALY; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; POLLUTION MONITORING; SEASONAL VARIATION; SELF ORGANIZING MAP; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA; WIND SPEED;

FRIULI-VENEZIA GIULIA; ITALY; TRIESTE [FRIULI-VENEZIA GIULIA];

EID: 84874938883     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: 15732932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11270-013-1503-7     Document Type: Article

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