Neighborhood-Scale Spatial Models of Diesel Exhaust Concentration Profile Using 1-Nitropyrene and Other Nitroarenes

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 22, 2015, Pages 13422-13430

  Schulte, Jill K ^a,d   Fox, Julie R ^a   Oron, Assaf P ^b   Larson, Timothy V ^a   Simpson, Christopher D ^a   Paulsen, Michael ^a   Beaudet, Nancy ^a   Kaufman, Joel D ^a   Magzamen, Sheryl ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b SEATTLE CHILDREN S RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CARBON; FIXED PLATFORMS; HEALTH RISKS; LAND USE; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS;

2-NITROFLUORANTHENE; CONCENTRATION PROFILES; DISPERSION MODELING; LAND USE REGRESSION; NITRATED POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; POLLUTANT MONITORING; SECONDARY ORGANIC AEROSOLS; URBAN NEIGHBORHOOD;

POLLUTION;

1 NITROPYRENE; 2 NITROFLUORANTHENE; 2 NITROPYRENE; BLACK CARBON; DIESEL FUEL; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; 1-NITROPYRENE; 2-NITROFLUORANTHENE; 2-NITROPYRENE; AEROSOL; AIR POLLUTANT; EXHAUST GAS; FLUORENE DERIVATIVE; PYRENE DERIVATIVE; SOOT;

AEROSOL; BLACK CARBON; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DIESEL; LAND USE CHANGE; MODEL VALIDATION; NEIGHBORHOOD; ORGANIC NITROGEN COMPOUND; PAH; POLLUTION MONITORING; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TRAFFIC EMISSION;

ARTICLE; EXHAUST GAS; METEOROLOGY; NEIGHBORHOOD; SECONDARY ORGANIC AEROSOL; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; AEROSOL; AIR POLLUTANT; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MOTOR VEHICLE; PROCEDURES; SEASON; SOOT; THEORETICAL MODEL; WASHINGTON;

SEATTLE; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

AEROSOLS; AIR POLLUTANTS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FLUORENES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTOR VEHICLES; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; PYRENES; SEASONS; SOOT; VEHICLE EMISSIONS; WASHINGTON;

EID: 84947272381     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b03639     Document Type: Article

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