Organic contaminant release from melting snow. 1. Influence of chemical partitioning

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 657-662

  Meyer, Torsten ^a   Lei, Ying Duan ^a   Muradi, Ibrahim ^a   Wania, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS; ATRAZINE; CHEMICAL BEHAVIORS; CHEMICAL PARTITIONING; CONTROLLED LABORATORIES; ELUTION BEHAVIORS; GRAIN SURFACES; INORGANIC IONS; LOWER ATMOSPHERES; ORGANIC CONTAMINANTS; PARTICLE COAGULATIONS; SNOW MELTS; VOLATILE CHEMICALS; WATER QUALITY MODELS; WATER SOLUBLE;

AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; COAGULATION; CONTAMINATION; HYDRAULIC MODELS; IMPURITIES; INORGANIC CHEMICALS; MELTING; NAPHTHALENE; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; SNOW; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

ORGANIC CHEMICALS;

ATRAZINE; LINDANE; NAPHTHALENE; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; SNOW; ORGANIC COMPOUND;

MELTING; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PARTITIONING; PERCOLATION; SNOW; SNOWPACK;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; BIOMASS DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL RELEASE; EVAPORATION; MELTING POINT; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; CHEMISTRY; SOLUBILITY;

ORGANIC CHEMICALS; SNOW; SOLUBILITY;

EID: 63149116059     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es8020217     Document Type: Article

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