Perfluorinated compounds in marine surface waters: Data from the Baltic Sea and methodologicalchallenges for future studies

Environmental Chemistry

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 429-434

  Kirchgeorg, Torben ^a   Weinberg, Ingo ^a   Dreyer, Annekatrin ^a   Ebinghaus, Ralf ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ORGANIC POLLUTANT; ORGANOFLUORINE; POLLUTION MONITORING; POPULATION DENSITY; SAMPLING; SEAWATER; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

EID: 77958050726     PISSN: 14482517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/EN10039     Document Type: Article

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