Release of legacy pollutants from melting glaciers: Model evidence and conceptual understanding

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 4063-4069

  Bogdal, Christian ^a   Nikolic, Divna ^a   Lüthi, Martin P ^a   Schenker, Urs ^a,b   Scheringer, Martin ^a   Hungerbühler, Konrad ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b NESTLÉ RESEARCH CENTER   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPINE GLACIER; ALPINE LAKES; ATMOSPHERIC CONCENTRATION; CATCHMENT AREA; CHANGING CLIMATE; CLIMATE WARMING; CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING; DICHLORODIPHENYLTRICHLOROETHANE; FLOW MODEL; GLACIER ICE; HISTORICAL EMISSIONS; LAKE MODEL; LAKE SEDIMENTS; MASS BALANCE MODEL; MELTING GLACIERS; PCDD/FS; PERSISTENT CHEMICALS; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZO-P-DIOXINS AND DIBENZOFURANS; RESIDENCE TIME; SWITZERLAND; THREE MODELS;

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; GLACIERS; LAKES; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; RUNOFF; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

LAKE POLLUTION;

CHLORPHENOTANE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZODIOXIN; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZOFURAN;

CATCHMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DDT; DEPOSITION; EMISSION INVENTORY; FLOW MODELING; GLACIAL LAKE; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LAKE POLLUTION; MELTING; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PARAMETERIZATION; PCB; PCDD; PCDF; POLLUTANT SOURCE; RESIDENCE TIME; SEDIMENT POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; CATCHMENT; CLIMATE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); GLACIER; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HYPOTHESIS; LAKE SEDIMENT; MELTING POINT; MODEL; ORGANIC POLLUTION; POLLUTANT; SURFACE PROPERTY; SWITZERLAND;

BENZOFURANS; CLIMATE; DDT; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; ICE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; SWITZERLAND; TETRACHLORODIBENZODIOXIN; WATER POLLUTANTS;

BERN [SWITZERLAND]; OBERAARSEE; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 77952907312     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es903007h     Document Type: Article

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