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Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene Volume 14, 2017 - Issue 3
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Turbulent eddy diffusion models in exposure assessment - Determination of the eddy diffusion coefficient

Yuan ShaoDivision of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Sandhya RamachandranDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
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Susan ArnoldDivision of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Gurumurthy RamachandranDepartment of Environmental Health Sciences, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MarylandCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 195-206 | Published online: 23 Jan 2017

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