Chemometric assessment of the semivolatile organic contaminants content in the atmosphere of the selected sites in the Republic of Macedonia.

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Authors	STAFILOV T. SKRBIC B. KLÁNOVÁ Jana ČUPR Pavel HOLOUBEK Ivan KOČOV M. DURISIC-MLADENOVIC N.
Year of publication	2011
Type	Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source	JOURNAL OF CHEMOMETRICS
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Science
Citation
Doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cem.1374
Field	Air pollution and control
Keywords	semivolatile organic compounds; atmosphere; urban; rural; multivariate analysis
Description	Data obtained through a pilot study for the development of the monitoring network in the Central and Eastern Europe (MONET_CEEC) 2006, regarding the occurrence of 12 organochlorine pesticides (OCPs), seven indicator polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and 28 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the air of six locations in the Republic of Macedonia have been interpreted by principal component (PCA) and cluster (CA) analysis. The data structures of three sets organized to contain the atmospheric concentrations of (a) PAHs, the so-called PAHs set, (b) both classes of organochlorine compounds (PCBs and OCPs) grouped in the organochlorinated compounds (OCCs) set and (c) the overall data (the semivolatile organic compounds (SVOCs) set) were compared. The PCA results suggested mixed origin of PAHs, especially dominant in the urban zones of Skopje, the capital of the Republic of Macedonia.
Related projects:	Interactions among the chemicals, environment and biological systems and their consequences on the global, regional and local scales (INCHEMBIOL)