Altitude profiles of total chlorinated paraffins in humus and spruce needles from the Alps (MONARPOP)

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 157, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3225-3231

  Iozza, Saverio ^a,b   Schmid, Peter ^a   Oehme, Michael ^b   Bassan, Rodolfo ^c   Belis, Claudio ^d   Jakobi, Gert ^e   Kirchner, Manfred ^e   Schramm, Karl Werner ^e   Kräuchi, Norbert ^f   Moche, Wolfgang ^g   Offenthaler, Ivo ^g   Weiss, Peter ^g   Simončič, Primož ^h   Knoth, Wilhelm ⁱ  

^a SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c Regional Agency for Environmental Prevention and Protection of Veneto   (Italy)

^d Regional Agency for Environmental Protection of Lombardia   (Italy)

^e INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^f SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^g ENVIRONMENT AGENCY AUSTRIA   (Austria)

^h SLOVENIAN FORESTRY INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

ⁱ UMWELTBUNDESAMT   (Germany)

Author keywords

EI MS MS; Humus; Polychlorinated n alkanes; Spruce needles; Total CPs

Indexed keywords

ALPINE REGIONS; ALTITUDE PROFILES; CHLORINATED PARAFFINS; ELECTRON IONIZATION TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRIES; ELEVATED CONCENTRATIONS; LONG CHAINS; MONITORING NETWORK; POLYCHLORINATED N-ALKANES; SAMPLING SITE; SPRUCE NEEDLES;

CHROMATOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; IONIZATION OF GASES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NEEDLES; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; SOILS;

PARAFFINS;

PARAFFIN; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ALKANE; ALTITUDE; BIOACCUMULATION; CHLORINATED HYDROCARBON; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CORRELATION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMUS; LEAF; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MONITORING SYSTEM; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; SOIL POLLUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION;

AIR POLLUTION; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CHLORINATION; CONIFER NEEDLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRY WEIGHT; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMUS; NONHUMAN; POLLUTION MONITORING; SPRUCE; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

ALTITUDE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; PARAFFIN; PICEA; PLANT LEAVES;

ALPS;

PICEA;

EID: 74249093600     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2009.05.033     Document Type: Article

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