Toward the next generation of air quality monitoring: Persistent organic pollutants

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 80, Issue , 2013, Pages 591-598

  Hung, Hayley ^a   MacLeod, Matthew ^b   Guardans, Ramon ^c   Scheringer, Martin ^d   Barra, Ricardo ^e   Harner, Tom ^a   Zhang, Gan ^f  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c Ministerio de Agricultura Alimentación y Medio Ambiente   (Spain)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

^f GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

Air monitoring; Emission inventory; Environmental Performance Index (EPI); Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs); Transport and environmental fate models

Indexed keywords

AIR MONITORING; EMISSION INVENTORIES; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE MODELS; ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE INDICES; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

AIR QUALITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; POLLUTION CONTROL; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

AIR QUALITY; AIR SAMPLING; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; BIOACCUMULATION; EMISSION INVENTORY; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; FOOD WEB; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; STOCKHOLM CONVENTION; URBAN AREA;

AIR MONITORING; AIR QUALITY; AIR SAMPLER; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; MODEL; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANT; POLLUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 84885172662     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2013.05.067     Document Type: Article

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