Hexachlorocyclohexanes and endosulfans in urban, rural, and high altitude air samples in the Fraser Valley, British Columbia: Evidence for trans-pacific transport

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 724-731

  Harner, Tom ^a   Shoeib, Mahiba ^a   Kozma, Melissa ^b   Gobas, Frank A P C ^b   Li, Shao Meng ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE SOURCES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PESTICIDES; SAMPLING; TRAJECTORIES; TROPOSPHERE;

AIR SAMPLES; ENDOSULFANS; HEXACHLOROCYCLOHEXANES (HCHS); POTENTIAL SOURCE REGIONS; TRANS-PACIFIC INPUTS;

AIR POLLUTION;

ENDOSULFAN; HEXACHLOROCYCLOHEXANE; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE;

AIR SAMPLING; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; ENDOSULFAN; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT;

ADVECTION; AIR ANALYSIS; AIR SAMPLING; AIRCRAFT; ALTITUDE; ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; ASIA; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; CANADA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); GEOGRAPHY; ISOMER; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; RURAL AREA; SEA; TRAJECTORY ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE; URBAN AREA; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; VALLEY;

AIR MOVEMENTS; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIRCRAFT; ALTITUDE; ATMOSPHERE; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CITIES; ENDOSULFAN; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INSECTICIDES; LINDANE;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; FRASER VALLEY; NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 13544272601     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es048700h     Document Type: Article

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