Processes controlling diurnal variations of PCDD/Fs in the New Jersey coastal atmosphere

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 959-969

  Lohmann, Rainer ^a   Brunciak, Paul A ^b   Dachs, Jordi ^b,c   Gigliotti, Cari L ^b   Nelson, Eric ^b   Van Ry, Daryl ^b   Glenn, Thomas ^b   Eisenreich, Steven J ^b   Jones, Joanne L ^a   Jones, Kevin C ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Air water exchange; Boundary layer height; Diurnal; OH radical reactions; PCDD Fs

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; ESTUARIES; SOLAR RADIATION;

DIURNAL VARIATIONS;

COASTAL ZONES;

DIOXIN; FURAN DERIVATIVE; HYDROXIDE;

AIR QUALITY; COASTAL ZONE; DIURNAL VARIATION; PCDD; PCDF; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT;

ADVECTION; AIR SAMPLING; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CALCULATION; CHLORINATION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ENVIRONMENT; ESTUARY; INDUSTRIAL AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASHORE; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; VOLATILIZATION; WIND;

NEW JERSEY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037332402     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1352-2310(02)00971-8     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Alcock R.E., Jones K.C. Dioxins in the environment. a review of trend data Environmental Science and Technology. 30:1996;3133-3143.
2. Alcock R.A., Gemmill R., Jones K.C. Improvements to the UK PCDD/F and PCB atmospheric emission inventory following an emissions measurement programme. Chemosphere. 37:1999;1457-1472.
3. Atkinson R. Atmospheric chemistry of PCBs, PCDDs and PCDFs. Hoster R.E., Harrison R.M. Issues in Environmental Science and Technology, No. 6: Chlorinated Organic Micropollutants. 1997;53-72 Royal Society of Chemistry.
4. Baker J.I., Hites R.A. Is combustion the major source of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans to the environment? a mass balance investigation. Environmental Science and Technology. 34:2000;2879-172886.
5. Baker I., Hites R.A., Eisenreich S.J. PCDD/FS in the Great Lakes air and in the New Jersey Coastal Atmosphere. Report to the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. 1999;17pp.
6. Ballschmiter, K., Bacher, R., 1996. Dioxine. VCH, Weinheim, ISBN 3-527-28768-X.
7. Bamford H.A., Offenberg J.H., Larsen R.K., Ko F.C., Baker J.E. Diffusive exchange of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons across the air-water interface of the Patapsco River, an urbanized subestuary of Chesapeake Bay. Environmental Science and Technology. 33:1999;2138-2144.
8. Brubaker W.W., Hites R.A. Polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans. gas phase hydroxyl reactions and related atmospheric removal Environmental Science and Technology. 31:1997;1805-1810.
9. Cleverly D., Winters D., Schweer G., McCarthy A., Ferrario J., Buchert J., Greene C., Schaum J., Byrne C., Dupuy A. A study of the diurnal and nocturnal measurement of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (CDDS) and polychlorinated dibenzofurans (CDFS) in ambient air. Organohalogen Compounds. 41:1999;335-338.
10. Dachs J., Van Ry D., Eisenreich S.J. Occurrence of estrogenic nonylphenols in the urban and coastal atmosphere of the lower Hudson River estuary. Environmental Science and Technology. 33:1999;2676-2679.
11. Derwent R.G. The influence of human activities on the distribution of hydroxyl radicals in the troposphere. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. 354:1996;501-531.
12. Gigliotti C.L., Brunciak P.A., Dachs J., Glenn T.R.IV., Nelson E.D., Totten L., Eisenreich S.J. Air-water exchange of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the NY-NJ Harbor Estuary. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 21:2002;235-244.
13. Govers H.A.J., Krop H.B. Partition constants of chlorinated dibenzofurans and dibenzo-p-dioxins. Chemosphere. 37:1998;2139-2152.
14. Hiester E., Bruckmann P., Böhm R., Eynck P., Gerlach A., Mülder W., Ristow H. Pronounced decrease of PCDD/PCDF burden in ambient air. Chemosphere. 34:1997;1231-1243.
15. Hippelein M., Kaupp H., Dörr G., McLachlan M., Hutzinger O. Baseline contamination assessment for a new resource recovery facility in Germany, Part. atmospheric concentrations of PCDD/F Chemosphere. 32:1996;1605-1616.
16. Jacob, D., 1999. Introduction to Atmospheric Chemistry. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ: ISBN 0-691-00185-5.
17. Kwok E.S.C., Arey J., Atkinson R. Rate constants for the gas phase reactions of the OH radical with dichlorobiphenyls, 1-chlorodibenzo-p-dioxin, 2-dimethoxybenzene and diphenyl ether. estimation of OH radical rate constants for PCBS, PCDDS, and PCDFS Environmental Science and Technology. 29:1995;1591-1598.
18. Lee R.G.M., Hung H., Mackay D., Jones K.C. Measurement and modeling of the diurnal cycling of atmospheric PCBS and PAHS. Environmental Science and Technology. 32:1998;2172-2179.
19. Lee R.G.M., Green N.J.L., Lohmann R., Jones K.C. Seasonal, anthropogenic, air mass and meteorological influences on the atmospheric concentrations of PCDD/FS. evidence for the importance of diffuse combustion sources Environmental Science and Technology. 33:1999;4432-4440.
20. Lena F., Desiato F. Intercomparison of nocturnal mixing height estimate methods for urban air pollution modelling. Atmospheric Environment. 33:1999;2385-2393.
21. Lohmann R., Jones K.C. Dioxins and furans in air and deposition. a review of levels, behaviour and processes Science of the Total Environment. 219:1998;53-81.
22. Lohmann R., Green N.J.L., Jones K.C. Detailed studies of the factors controlling atmospheric PCDD/F concentrations. Environmental Science and Technology. 33:1999;4440-4447.
23. Lohmann R., Green N.J.L., Jones K.C. Atmospheric transport of PCDD/FS across the UK and Ireland. evidence of emission and degradation Environmental Science and Technology. 33:1999;2872-2878.
24. Lohmann R., Northcott G.N., Jones K.C. Assessing the contribution of diffuse domestic burning as a source of PCDD/Fs, PCBs and PAHs to the UK atmosphere. Environmental Science and Technology. 34:2000;2892-2899.
25. Lohmann R., Nelson E., Eisenreich S.J., Jones K.C. Evidence for dynamic air-water exchange of PCDD/Fs. A study in the Raritan Bay/Hudson River estuary Environmental Science and Technology. 34:2000;3086-3093.
26. Lohmann R., Brunciak P.L., Gigliotti C.L., Nelson E., Van Ry D., Glenn T., Eisenreich S.J., Jones J.L., Jones K.C. PCDD/Fs in the New Jersey coastal atmosphere. evidence for secondary sources and OH-radical initiated depletion reactions Organohalogen Compounds. 45:2000;268-271.
27. Mackay, D., Shiu, W.Y., Ma, K.C., 2000. Physical-Chemical Properties and Environmental Fate Handbook. Chapman & Hall/CRCnet-BASE, New York.
28. NOAA, see under: http://www.arl.noaa.gov/ready/disclaim.html.
29. Rappe C. Sources of PCDDs and PCDFs - introduction - reactions, levels, patterns, profiles and trends. Chemosphere. 25:1992;41-44.
30. Schwarzenbach, R.P., Gschwend, P.M., Imboden, D.M., 1993. Environmental Organic Chemistry. Wiley, New York, 681pp., ISBN 0-471-83941-8.
31. Smith R.M., O'Keefe P.W., Aldous K., Briggs R., Hilker D., Connor S. Measurement of PCDFs and PCDDs in air samples and lake-sediments at several locations in upstate New York. Chemosphere. 25:1992;95-98.
32. Totten L., Brunciak P.A., Gigliotti C.L., Dachs J., Glenn T.R.IV., Nelson E.D., Eisenreich S.J. Dynamic air-water exchange of polychlorinated biphenyls in the NY-NJ Harbor Estuary. Environmental Science and Technology. 35:2001;3834-3840.
33. US-EPA: The Inventory of Sources of Dioxin in the United States, EPA/600/P-98/002Aa.
34. Van den Berg M., Birnbaum L., Bosveld A.T.C., Brunström B., Cook P., Feeley M., Gisey P., Hanberg A., Hasegawa R., Kennedy S.W., Kubiak T., Larsen J.C., van Leeuwen R.F.X., Liem A.K.D., Nolt C., Peterson R.E., Poellinger L., Safe S., Schrenk D., Tillit D., Tysklind M., Younes M., Waern F., Zacharewski T. Toxic equivalency factors (TEFs) for PCBS, PCDDS, PCDFS for humans and wildlife. Environmental Health Perspectives. 106:1998;775.
35. Zhang H., Eisenreich S.J., Franz T., Baker J.E., Offenberg J.H. Evidence for increased gaseous PCB fluxes to Lake Michigan from Chicago. Environmental Science and Technology. 33:1999;2129-2137.