Soil concentrations, occurrence, sources and estimation of air-soil exchange of polychlorinated biphenyls in Indian cities

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 562, Issue , 2016, Pages 928-934

  Chakraborty, Paromita ^a   Zhang, Gan ^b   Li, Jun ^b   Selvaraj, Sakthivel ^a   Breivik, Knut ^c,d   Jones, Kevin C ^e  

^a SRM INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^e LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fugacity fractions; Levels; PCB; PMF model; Sources

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CARBON; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE SOURCES; FACTORIZATION; ORGANIC CARBON; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; SOILS; URBAN GROWTH;

ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; CONTROLLING FACTORS; FUGACITY FRACTIONS; LEVELS; METROPOLITAN CITIES; PMF MODELS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL (PCBS); POSITIVE MATRIX FACTORIZATION MODELS;

ORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

ORGANIC CARBON; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL DERIVATIVE; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

ATMOSPHERE-BIOSPHERE INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FUGACITY; PCB; POLLUTANT SOURCE; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SOIL POLLUTION; URBAN POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DRY WEIGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; INDIA; POSITIVE MATRIX FACTORIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION; SURFACE SOIL; URBAN AREA; AIR POLLUTANT; ANALYSIS; CITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; POLLUTION; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AGRA; BENGALURU; CHENNAI; DELHI; GOA; INDIA; KARNATAKA; KOLKATA; MAHARASHTRA; MUMBAI; NEW DELHI; TAMIL NADU; UTTAR PRADESH; WEST BENGAL;

AIR POLLUTANTS; CITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; INDIA; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

EID: 84973150471     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.03.009     Document Type: Article

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