GEM/POPs: A global 3-D dynamic model for semi-volatile persistent organic pollutants - Part 2: Global transports and budgets of PCBs

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 4015-4025

  Huang, P ^a   Gong, S L ^a,b   Zhao, T L ^b   Neary, L ^c   Barrie, L A ^d  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; BACKGROUND LEVEL; EASTERLY WAVE; EMISSION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PARTICULATE MATTER; PCB; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; STRATOSPHERE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TRADE WIND; TROPOSPHERE; VOLATILE SUBSTANCE;

ASIA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 34547558254     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-7-4015-2007     Document Type: Article

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