Quantifying Remoteness from Emission Sources of Persistent Organic Pollutants on a Global Scale

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2791-2796

  Von Waldow, Harald ^a   MacLeod, Matthew ^a   Scheringer, Martin ^a   Hungerbühler, Konrad ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CONCENTRATION; ATMOSPHERIC RESIDENCE TIME; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT MODEL; CHEMICAL SUBSTANCE; EMISSION SOURCES; EMISSIONS SCENARIOS; ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSPORT; GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT; GLOBAL SCALE; INTERNATIONAL REGULATIONS; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; MEASUREMENT CAMPAIGN; MONITORING NETWORK; MONITORING PROGRAMMES; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; QUANTITATIVE MEASURES; SOURCE AREA; SPATIAL PATTERNS; STOCKHOLM;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; INDICATORS (CHEMICAL); INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS; INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS; LOCATION; MONITORING; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

INDUSTRIAL CHEMICAL; PESTICIDE; TRACER; VOLATILE AGENT;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; RESIDENCE TIME; STOCKHOLM CONVENTION; VOLATILE SUBSTANCE;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPIRICISM; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; MODEL; ORGANIC POLLUTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REMOTENESS INDEX;

ATMOSPHERE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; INTERNATIONALITY; ORGANIC CHEMICALS;

EID: 77950929306     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es9030694     Document Type: Article

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