Atlantic ocean surface waters buffer declining atmospheric concentrations of persistent organic pollutants

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 6978-6984

  Nizzetto, Luca ^a,b   Lohmann, Rainer ^c   Gioia, Rosalinda ^a   Dachs, Jordi ^d   Jones, Kevin C ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND WATER RESEARCH   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AS-SOILS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATMOSPHERIC CONCENTRATION; ATMOSPHERIC EMISSION; BUFFERING CAPACITIES; CONTINENTAL AREA; ENVIRONMENTAL CONCENTRATION; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; GEOCHEMICAL CONTROL; OCEANIC AREA; OPEN OCEAN; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PCDD/FS; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZO- P - DIOXINS; PRIMARY EMISSIONS; RE-EMISSION; REGIONAL SCALE; RESIDENCE TIME;

AIR POLLUTION; OCEANOGRAPHY; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; SOIL POLLUTION; SURFACE WATERS; WATER TREATMENT;

ORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

BUFFER; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZODIOXIN; SURFACE WATER;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; BUFFERING; EMISSION CONTROL; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PCB; PCDD; PCDF; RESIDENCE TIME; SEAWATER;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; CHLORINATION; DEGRADATION; GEOCHEMISTRY; ORGANIC POLLUTION; POLLUTANT; SOIL;

AIR; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATMOSPHERE; BUFFERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FURANS; INTERNATIONALITY; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; SEAWATER; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TETRACHLORODIBENZODIOXIN;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 77956541174     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es101293v     Document Type: Article

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