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The aim of this article is the investigation of the benzene concentrations in the ambient air of urban and industrial areas from the Timişoara city and the rural zones of Timiş County, Romania. We use the Mann–Kendall test for assessing the existence of a monotonic trend of the average and maxima daily series. Burr and Wakeby models are fit for the distributions of the average and maximum daily series collected during a period of 7 months. Based on these distributions, we compute the probabilities of exceeding the legal limits by the average daily series. These are 0.1888, 0.2159, 0.1913, and 0.1805, respectively. The highest one corresponds to the agglomerate roadside.
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Bărbulescu, A., Barbeş, L. Statistical assessment and modeling of benzene level in atmosphere in Timiş County, Romania. Int. J. Environ. Sci. Technol. 19, 817–828 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13762-020-02951-2
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