Current use and legacy pesticide deposition to ice caps on Svalbard, Norway

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 115, Issue 18, 2010, Pages

  Ruggirello, Rachel M ^a   Hermanson, Mark H ^a,b   Isaksson, Elisabeth ^c   Teixeira, Camilla ^d   Forsström, Sanja ^c   Muir, Derek C G ^d   Pohjola, Veijo ^e   Van De Wal, Roderik ^f   Meijer, Harro A J ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^d ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^e UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^g UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE; REACTION RATES;

AIR MASS; AIR MASS BACK TRAJECTORIES; CHLORPYRIFOS; ENDOSULFAN SULFATE; ENDOSULFANS; EURASIA; ICE CORE; ICE FIELDS; ICE-CAPS; PESTICIDE DEPOSITION; POLAR ENVIRONMENTS; RESIDUAL PRODUCTS; SVALBARD; TRIFLURALIN;

INSECTICIDES;

AIR MASS; AIRFLOW; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ICE CAP; ICE CORE; INSECTICIDE; PERSISTENCE; PESTICIDE RESIDUE; POLAR REGION; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT;

ARCTIC; NORWAY; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 77957567342     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JD014005     Document Type: Article

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