Polyfluorinated compounds in the atmosphere of the Atlantic and Southern Oceans: Evidence for a global distribution

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 6507-6514

  Dreyer, Annekatrin ^a   Weinberg, Ingo ^a,b   Temme, Christian ^a,c   Ebinghaus, Ralf ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

^c Eurofins Medinet Inc   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR SAMPLES; ANALYTES; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; ANTARCTICA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; CENTRAL EUROPE; DATA SETS; FLUOROTELOMER ALCOHOLS; GAS-PHASE CONCENTRATION; GASPHASE; GERMANY; GLASS FIBER FILTERS; GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION; HPLC-MS/MS; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; MARINE REGION; NON-VOLATILE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; REMOTE REGIONS; RESEARCH VESSELS; RESIDENCE TIME; SOURCE REGION; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

AC GENERATOR MOTORS; AMIDES; AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERICS; CARBOXYLATION; GLASS FIBERS; OCEANOGRAPHY; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SHIPS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS);

ALCOHOL; CARBOXYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; FLUORINE DERIVATIVE; GLASS FIBER; ORGANIC COMPOUND; SULFONAMIDE; SULFONIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

AIR SAMPLING; ALCOHOL; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; DATA SET; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HALOGENATED HYDROCARBON; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; RESEARCH VESSEL; RESIDENCE TIME; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

AIR QUALITY; AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATMOSPHERE; BALTIC SEA; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FILTER; FLUORINATION; GAS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GERMANY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

AIR; AIR POLLUTANTS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HYDROCARBONS, FLUORINATED; PARTICULATE MATTER; VOLATILIZATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; HAMBURG [GERMANY]; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 69549110666     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es9010465     Document Type: Article

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