Investigating PAH relative reactivity using congener profiles, quinone measurements and back trajectories

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 2467-2477

  Alam, M S ^a   Delgado Saborit, J M ^a   Stark, C ^a   Harrison, R M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR MASS; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); HYDROXYL RADICAL; PAH; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; POINT SOURCE POLLUTION; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); ENGLAND; NORFOLK [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM; WEYBOURNE;

EID: 84896742497     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-14-2467-2014     Document Type: Article

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