Estimating overall persistence and long-range transport potential of persistent organic pollutants: A comparison of seven multimedia mass balance models and atmospheric transport models

Journal of Environmental Monitoring

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1139-1147

  Hollander, A ^a,b   Scheringer, M ^c   Shatalov, V ^d   Mantseva, E ^d   Sweetman, A ^e   Roemer, M ^f   Baart, A ^g   Suzuki, N ^h   Wegmann, F ^c   Van De Meent, D ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d Meteorological Synthesizing Center East   (Russian Federation)

^e LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f TNO   (Netherlands)

^g WL DELFT HYDRAULICS   (Netherlands)

^h NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC COMPOUND;

AB INITIO CALCULATION; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ORGANIC POLLUTION; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AIR MOVEMENTS; AIR POLLUTANTS; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SOFTWARE;

EID: 53649100861     PISSN: 14640325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/b803760d     Document Type: Article

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