Impact of the regional climate and substance properties on the fate and atmospheric long-range transport of persistent organic pollutants - Examples of DDT and γ-HCH

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1231-1248

  Semeena, V S ^a,b   Feichter, J ^a   Lammel, G ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; CIRCULATION MODELING; DDT; HCH; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEA SURFACE; VEGETATION;

EID: 33746899742     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-6-1231-2006     Document Type: Article

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