Concentrations in ambient air and emissions of cyclic volatile methylsiloxanes in Zurich, Switzerland

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 7045-7051

  Buser, Andreas M ^a   Kierkegaard, Amelie ^b   Bogdal, Christian ^a   Macleod, Matthew ^b   Scheringer, Martin ^a   Hungerbühler, Konrad ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE EMISSION RATE; CITY CENTERS; DECAMETHYLCYCLOPENTASILOXANE; EMISSION RATES; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE MODELS; FIELD MEASUREMENT; MEASUREMENTS OF; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION;

AIR POLLUTION;

DECAMETHYLCYCLOPENTASILOXANE; DODECAMETHYLCYCLOHEXASILOXANE; SILOXANE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMBIENT AIR; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; ORGANIC COMPOUND; VOLATILE SUBSTANCE;

AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; MEASUREMENT; SWITZERLAND;

AIR POLLUTANTS; CITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SILOXANES; SWITZERLAND;

SWITZERLAND; ZURICH [SWITZERLAND];

EID: 84880084529     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es3046586     Document Type: Article

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