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Main Title Biogenic hydrocarbon contribution to the ambient air of selected areas : Tulsa, Great Smoky Mountains, Rio Blanco County, Colorado /
Author Arnts, Robert R. ; Meeks., Sarah A.
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Author Title of a Work
Meeks, Sarah A.
CORP Author Environmental Sciences Research Lab., Research Triangle Park, NC. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Div.
Publisher U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,
Year Published 1980
Report Number EPA-600/3-80-023
Stock Number PB80-139066
OCLC Number 15245090
Subjects Air--Pollution--Oklahoma ; Hydrocarbons ; Air--Pollution--Colorado--Rio Blanco County ; Air--Pollution--Great Smoky Mountains (NC and Tenn) ; United States--Great Smoky Mountains
Additional Subjects Air pollution ; Hydrocarbons ; Sources ; Concentration(Composition) ; Sampling ; Sites ; Oklahoma ; Colorado ; Tennessee ; Terpene hydrocarbons ; Air pollution sampling ; Biological systems ; Tulsa(Oklahoma) ; Rio Blanco County(Colorado) ; Great Smoky Mountains National Park ; Procedures ; Isoprenes
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https://nepis.epa.gov/Exe/ZyPDF.cgi?Dockey=91019MRK.PDF
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EHAM  TD887.H93A76 1980 Region 1 Library/Boston,MA 04/29/2016
EJBD  EPA 600-3-80-023 c.1 Headquarters Library/Washington,DC 04/14/2014
EKBD  EPA-600/3-80-023 Research Triangle Park Library/RTP, NC 07/18/2003
ELBD ARCHIVE EPA 600-3-80-023 Received from HQ AWBERC Library/Cincinnati,OH 10/04/2023
ESAD  EPA 600-3-80-023 Region 10 Library/Seattle,WA 03/23/2010
NTIS  PB80-139066 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
Collation 32 pages : tables, maps ; 28 cm.
Abstract Estimates of volatile hydrocarbon emissions to the atmosphere indicate that biogenic sources are much greater on a global basis than anthropogenic sources. Many assumptions inherent in these estimates, however, introduce a large degree of uncertainty about both inventories. A critical review of the literature reveals nonmethane hydrocarbons in rural and remote areas consist mainly of anthropogenic species, and are composed of less than 10% biogenically-related compounds (i.e., monoterpenes and isoprene). Despite these results, some investigators continue to invoke 'natural hydrocarbon emissions' to explain naturally occurring haze, incorrectly identified gas chromatographic peaks, and high concentrations of total nonmethane hydrocarbons that are measured by indiscriminate (total hydrocarbon-methane) analyzers. In response to the suggestion that biogenic emissions are responsible for the high hydrocarbon concentrations described in several reports, the Environmental Sciences Research Laboratory of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency initiated short-term sampling as a means of validation. A limited number of whole-air samples were collected in Tedlar bags and analyzed by gas chromatography with flame ionization detection. The areas of study included: Tulsa, Oklahoma; Rio Blanco County, Colorado; and the Great Smoky Mountains in Tennessee. Although the tests were of short duration, the results suggest monoterpenes and isoprene constitute minor components of rural air relative to anthropogenic hydrocarbons.
Notes "January 1980."
Place Published Research Triangle Park, N.C.
Access Notes Also available via the World Wide Web.
Corporate Au Added Ent Environmental Sciences Research Laboratory. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Division.
Title Ser Add Ent EPA ; 600/3-80-023.
PUB Date Free Form 1980
Series Title Traced EPA ; 600/3-80-023
Series Title Untraced EPA ; 600/3-80-023
NTIS Prices PC A03/MF A01
BIB Level m
Medium unmediated
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OCLC Time Stamp 20160419143743
Language eng
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OCLC Rec Leader 01947cam 2200445Ia 45020