Observations of the PCB distribution within and in-between ice, snow, ice-rafted debris, ice-interstitial water, and seawater in the Barents Sea marginal ice zone and the North Pole area

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 342, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 261-279

  Gustafsson, O ^a   Andersson, P ^b   Axelman, J ^a   Bucheli, T D ^a,d   Komp P ^c   McLachlan, M S ^a,c   Sobek, A ^a   Thorngren J O ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Arctic; Ice; Octanol water partition coefficients; Polychlorinated biphenyls; Seawater; Snow

Indexed keywords

DEBRIS; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); POLLUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEA ICE; SEAWATER; SEDIMENTS; SNOW; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

ICE RAFTED SEDIMENTS (IRS); MARGINAL ICE ZONE (MIZ); PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON (POC); PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS (POP);

POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS;

ICE; ORGANIC CARBON; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; SEA WATER; SNOW;

PCB; SEAWATER; SNOW;

ARTICLE; ORGANIC POLLUTION; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; POLLUTION MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA POLLUTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUMMER; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTION;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 18144369649     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2004.12.044     Document Type: Article

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