Seasonality in the "grasshopping" and atmospheric residence times of persistent organic pollutants over the oceans

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 17, 2008, Pages

  Jurado, Elena ^a   Dachs, Jordi ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERICS; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; POLLUTION DETECTION; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

ATMOSPHERIC RESIDENCE TIMES; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORTS; BIOGEOCHEMICAL PROCESSES; ENVIRONMENTAL COMPARTMENTS; FRACTIONATION PROCESSES; GLOBAL SCALES; GRASSHOPPER EFFECTS; LONG RANGES; NUMBER OF HOPS; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITIES; REMOTE REGIONS; SEASONAL VARIABILITIES; SEASONALITY; TRANSPORT EVENTS; VOLATILE COMPOUNDS; WATER COLUMNS;

ORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; DEPOSITION; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PCB; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SEASONALITY; VOLATILIZATION; WATER COLUMN;

HUMULUS;

EID: 57049163587     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL034698     Document Type: Article

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