Atmospheric concentrations and air-water flux of organochlorine pesticides along the Western Antarctic Peninsula

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 465-470

  Dickhut, Rebecca M ^a   Cincinelli, Alessandra ^b   Cochran, Michele ^a   Ducklow, Hugh W ^a  

^a VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; MICROORGANISMS; SEA ICE; SNOW;

HEXACHLOROBENZENE (HCB); HEXACHLOROCYCLOHEXANE (HCH); LATITUDES; SEA-WATER;

PESTICIDES;

HEPTACHLOR; HEPTACHLOR EPOXIDE; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; HEXACHLOROCYCLOHEXANE; LINDANE; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; SEA WATER; SNOW;

AIR-WATER INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; ORGANOCHLORINE; PESTICIDE;

AIR MONITORING; AIR SAMPLING; ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; LATITUDE; SUMMER; WATER SAMPLING; WINTER;

AIR; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; ICE; PESTICIDES; SEASONS; SEAWATER; SNOW; WATER;

ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; WEST ANTARCTICA; WORLD;

EID: 12344320140     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es048648p     Document Type: Article

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