Toxic volatile organic air pollutants across Canada: multi-year concentration trends, regional air quality modelling and source apportionment

Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 137-164

  Stroud, Craig A ^a   Zaganescu, Calin ^a   Chen, Jack ^a   McLinden, Chris A ^a   Zhang, Junhua ^a   Wang, Danny ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

A unified regional air quality modelling system (AURAMS); Air quality; Global environmental multiscale (GEM) model; Hazardous air pollutants (HAPs); Mobile emissions; Smog; Toxics

Indexed keywords

1,2,4 TRIMETHYLBENZENE; 1,3 BUTADIENE; ACETALDEHYDE; ACROLEIN; BENZENE; CARBON MONOXIDE; FORMALDEHYDE; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; OZONE;

AIR QUALITY; ALDEHYDE; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DATA SET; POLLUTANT SOURCE; SMOG; TIMESCALE; TOXIC MATERIAL; TREND ANALYSIS; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR QUALITY; AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; CANADA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; LIMIT OF DETECTION; PARTICULATE MATTER; PETROCHEMICAL INDUSTRY; PHOTOOXIDATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; TREND STUDY; URBAN AREA; WASTE DISPOSAL;

CANADA;

EID: 84944705353     PISSN: 01677764     EISSN: 15730662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10874-015-9319-z     Document Type: Article

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