Atmospheric polychlorinated biphenyls in Indian cities: Levels, emission sources and toxicity equivalents

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 182, Issue , 2013, Pages 283-290

  Chakraborty, Paromita ^a,b   Zhang, Gan ^a   Eckhardt, Sabine ^c   Li, Jun ^a   Breivik, Knut ^c,d   Lam, Paul K S ^e   Tanabe, Shinsuke ^f   Jones, Kevin C ^g  

^a GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^b SRM INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^e CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^f EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Air; FLEXPART; HYSPLIT; India; Polychlorinated biphenyls; Toxicity equivalents

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CONCENTRATION; AVERAGE CONCENTRATION; EMISSION INVENTORIES; FLEXPART; HYSPLIT; INDIA; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL (PCBS); TOXICITY EQUIVALENCES;

AIR; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; TOXICITY;

ORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DIURNAL VARIATION; PCB; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TOXICITY;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ECOTOXICOLOGY; ELECTRONIC WASTE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; INDIA; POLLUTION MONITORING; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; SHIP; SOLID WASTE; TOXICITY EQUIVALENT; TOXICOLOGICAL PARAMETERS;

AIR; FLEXPART; HYSPLIT; INDIA; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; TOXICITY EQUIVALENTS;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ATMOSPHERE; CITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INDIA; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS;

AGRA; BANGALORE; CHENNAI; DELHI; GOA; INDIA; KARNATAKA; KOLKATA; MAHARASHTRA; MUMBAI; NEW DELHI; TAMIL NADU; UTTAR PRADESH; WEST BENGAL;

EID: 84882801826     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: 18736424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2013.07.032     Document Type: Article

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