Remoteness from emission sources explains the fractionation pattern of polychlorinated biphenyls in the Northern Hemisphere

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 6183-6188

  Von Waldow, Harald ^a   MacLeod, Matthew ^a   Jones, Kevin ^b   Scheringer, Martin ^a   Hungerbuhler, Konrad ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; EMISSION SOURCES; EMPIRICAL DATA; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FRACTIONATION PATTERNS; LOSS RATES; MASS BALANCE MODEL; MODEL CALCULATIONS; MODEL EXPERIMENTS; MONITORING SITES; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; PARTITIONING COEFFICIENTS; PCB CONCENTRATION; PCB CONGENERS; RESIDENCE TIME; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

DATA HANDLING; DISTILLATION; EXPERIMENTS; EXPLORATORY GEOCHEMISTRY; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

ATMOSPHERIC PLUME; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; DATA SET; DISTILLATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; MASS BALANCE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PCB; POLLUTION MONITORING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; VOLATILE SUBSTANCE;

AIR ANALYSIS; ALTERNATIVE HYPOTHESIS; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CALCULATION; DISTILLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EUROPE; FRACTIONATION; MONITORING; MULTIMEDIA;

ARCTIC REGIONS; CHEMICAL FRACTIONATION; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; TIME FACTORS;

EUROPE;

EID: 77956551538     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es101291q     Document Type: Article

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