Screening houses for vapor intrusion risks: A multiple regression analysis approach

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 5595-5602

  Johnston, Jill E ^a   Gibson, Jacqueline MacDonald ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORINATED VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; CONTAMINATED GROUNDWATER; HAZARDOUS WASTE SITES; INDOOR AIR CONCENTRATION; MULTIPLE REGRESSION ANALYSIS; POLLUTANT CONCENTRATION; SOIL-GAS CONCENTRATIONS; U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY;

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY; GROUNDWATER; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VAPORS; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

GROUND WATER; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DATABASE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HAZARDOUS WASTE; INDOOR AIR; POLLUTION INCIDENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL GAS; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

AIR ANALYSIS; AIR POLLUTANT; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; DIFFUSION; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; SOIL; SUMMER; VAPOR INTRUSION; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER TEMPERATURE; WINTER;

AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; HOUSING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASONS; SOIL POLLUTANTS; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84878655410     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es4003795     Document Type: Article

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