Current-use and legacy pesticide history in the Austfonna ice cap, Svalbard, Norway

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 21, 2005, Pages 8163-8169

  Hermanson, Mark H ^a,b   Isaksson, Elisabeth ^e   Teixeira, Camilla ^c   Muir, Derek C G ^c   Compher, Kevin M ^a,b   Li, Y F ^c   Igarashi, Makoto ^d   Kamiyama, Kokichi ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

^e NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTERS; ICE; IMPURITIES; OXIDATION; PHOSPHORUS; SAMPLING;

AIR MASSES; ICE CAP; SEMIVOLATILE ORGANIC CONTAMINANT (SOC); SURFACE SAMPLE;

FUNGICIDES;

CHLORPYRIFOS; DIELDRIN; DIMPYLATE; FENITROTHION; METHOXYCHLOR; METOLACHLOR; ORGANOPHOSPHATE PESTICIDE; PARATHION METHYL; PENDIMETHALIN; PESTICIDE; TERBUFOS;

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; ICE CORE; LONG-TERM CHANGE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; BIOACCUMULATION; COLD CLIMATE; CONTAMINATION; CROPLAND; NORWAY; PESTICIDE SPRAYING; SEA ICE; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ATMOSPHERE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; HERBICIDES; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; ICE; NORWAY; PESTICIDES;

ARCTIC; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 27644507955     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es051100d     Document Type: Article

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