Determining air pollutant emission rates based on mass balance using airborne measurement data over the Alberta oil sands operations

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 3745-3765

  Gordon, M ^a,c   Li, S M ^a   Staebler, R ^a   Darlington, A ^a   Hayden, K ^a   O'Brien, J ^a   Wolde, M ^b  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE SURVEY; ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CHEMICAL MASS BALANCE; EMISSION INVENTORY; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; METHANE; MIXING RATIO; OIL SAND; POLLUTION MONITORING; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

ALBERTA; CANADA;

EID: 84941670260     PISSN: 18671381     EISSN: 18678548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/amt-8-3745-2015     Document Type: Article

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