Seasonally resolved concentrations of persistent organic pollutants in the global atmosphere from the first year of the GAPS Study

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 796-803

  Pozo, Karla ^a   Harner, Tom ^a   Lee, Sum Chi ^a   Wania, F ^b   Muir, Derek C G ^a   Jones, Kevin C ^c  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL SITES; BASELINE VALUES; EFFECTIVENESS EVALUATIONS; ENDOSULFAN; ENDOSULFANS; FIRST QUARTERS; FIRST YEARS; GEOMETRIC MEANS; GLOBAL EMISSIONS; GLOBAL SCALE; GLOBAL TRANSPORTS; HEPTACHLOR EPOXIDES; HEXACHLOROCYCLOHEXANE; INTER ANNUALS; LATITUDINAL DISTRIBUTIONS; MID-LATITUDES; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; PASSIVE AIR SAMPLERS; PASSIVE SAMPLINGS; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHERS; POLYURETHANE FOAMS; REMOTE LOCATIONS; SEASONAL PATTERNS; SEASONALITY; SITE SPECIFICS; SITE TYPES; SPATIAL VARIABILITIES; STOCKHOLM;

ATMOSPHERICS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DISKS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); ETHERS; GRANULAR MATERIALS; INSECTICIDES; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; POLYMERS; PRINTED CIRCUITS; TIME SERIES;

ORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

1,1 DICHLORO 2,2 BIS(4 CHLOROPHENYL)ETHYLENE; ALPHA HEXACHLOROCYCLOHEXANE; CHLORDANE; DIELDRIN; ENDOSULFAN; HEPTACHLOR; HEPTACHLOR EPOXIDE; LINDANE; ORGANIC COMPOUND; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; POLYURETHAN FOAM;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); HCH; INDUSTRIAL LOCATION; MODEL VALIDATION; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PCB; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL VARIATION;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); GEOMETRY; ORGANIC POLLUTION; RURAL AREA; SAMPLER; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUMMER; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; ATMOSPHERE; QUALITY CONTROL; SEASON; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ATMOSPHERE; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; QUALITY CONTROL; SEASONS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 63149137776     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es802106a     Document Type: Article

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