Assessing persistence and long-range transport potential of current-use pesticides

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 9223-9229

  Matthies, Michael ^a   Klasmeier, Jörg ^a   Beyer, Andreas ^a,b   Ehling, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE INGREDIENTS; BOUNDARY LINES; CURRENT-USE PESTICIDES; ENVIRONMENTAL BEHAVIOR; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; MODELING APPROACH; MULTIMEDIA MODELS; ORGANOCHLORINES; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; POLAR SUBSTANCES; SCREENING LEVEL; SIMULATION TESTS; STOCKHOLM; TRAVEL DISTANCE;

CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY MEASUREMENT; INDICATORS (CHEMICAL); MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; PESTICIDES; SIMULATORS;

ORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

PESTICIDE; WATER;

CHEMICAL PROPERTY; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; NUMERICAL MODEL; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; ORGANOCHLORINE; PERSISTENCE; PESTICIDE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT;

AIR; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MODEL; POLLUTANT; SCREENING; SIMULATION;

AIR POLLUTANTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PESTICIDES; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 72849108267     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es900773u     Document Type: Article

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