On the mechanism of mountain cold-trapping of organic chemicals

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 42, Issue 24, 2008, Pages 9092-9098

  Wania, Frank ^a   Westgate, John N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PARTICLES; CONTAMINANT TRANSPORTS; EQUILIBRIUM PARTITIONING; FAST DEPOSITIONS; FATE AND TRANSPORT MODELS; FIELD STUDIES; HIGHER LATITUDES; MODEL RESULTS; MOUNTAIN REGIONS; MOUNTAIN SLOPES; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDES; ORGANIC VAPORS; PARAMETERIZED; PLANT FOLIAGES; POLAR REGIONS; PRECIPITATION SCAVENGING; SCAVENGING EFFICIENCIES; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCES;

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERICS; IMPURITIES; LANDFORMS; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS; PRINTED CIRCUITS; RAIN; VAPORS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

MOUNTAIN; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PCB; POLAR REGION; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SCAVENGING (CHEMISTRY); SLOPE;

AIR MOVEMENTS; ALTITUDE; COLD CLIMATE; COLD TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; RAIN; SEASONS;

EID: 58149166909     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es8013198     Document Type: Article

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