Quantifying the global fractionation of polychlorinated biphenyls

Ambio

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 161-168

  Wania, Frank ^a,b   Su, Yushan ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTIONATION; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PCB;

EID: 2342516874     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447-33.3.161     Document Type: Article

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39. The development of the Globo-POP model and its use in the investigation of the global fractionation process have been financially supported by the Northern Contaminants Program of the Canadian Department for Indian Affairs and Northern Development. We are grateful to M. Doughty for help with assigning the emissions to the ten climate zones, and H. Hung for providing air concentration data.
40. First submitted 29 July 2003. Revised manuscript received 2 Oct. 2003. Accepted for publication 6 Oct. 2003