Modeling global-scale fate and transport of perfluorooctanoate emitted from direct sources

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 40, Issue 22, 2006, Pages 6969-6975

  Armitage, James ^a   Cousins, Ian T ^a   Buck, Robert C ^b   Prevedouros, Konstantinos ^a   Russell, Mark H ^b   Macleod, Matthew ^c   Korzeniowski, Stephen H ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ESTERS; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; WATER;

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION MODEL; OCEAN WATER; PERFLUOROOCTANOATE (PFO);

MARINE POLLUTION;

ALCOHOL DERIVATIVE; FLUOROTELOMER ALCOHOL; PERFLUOROOCTANE; SEA WATER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ESTERS; MARINE POLLUTION; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; WATER;

LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; MODELING; OCEAN; SEAWATER; SIMULATION; TRANSPORT PROCESS; WATER POLLUTION;

ACIDITY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MODEL; OCEAN ENVIRONMENT; PREDICTION; SEA; SIMULATION; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTION;

ARCTIC REGIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FLUOROCARBONS; FORECASTING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OCEANS AND SEAS; OCTANOIC ACIDS; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS;

ARCTIC;

EID: 33751120169     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es0614870     Document Type: Article

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