Quantifying the perturbations of persistent organic pollutants induced by climate change

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 8567-8573

  Ma, Jianmin ^a   Cao, Zuohao ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR CONCENTRATIONS; AIR TEMPERATURE; AIR-SURFACE EXCHANGES; AIR-WATER SYSTEM; CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS; CLOSED AIR; COUPLED MODELS; ENVIRONMENTAL MEDIA; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; HEXACHLOROCYCLOHEXANES; HIGH CONCENTRATION; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; POSSIBLE FUTURES; SOIL SYSTEMS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); GEOLOGIC MODELS; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; SOILS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ALPHA HEXACHLOROCYCLOHEXANE; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; HEXACHLOROCYCLOHEXANE; LINDANE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; WATER;

AIR TEMPERATURE; AIR-SOIL INTERACTION; AIR-WATER INTERACTION; CHLORINATED HYDROCARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PERTURBATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

AIR ANALYSIS; AIR POLLUTION; AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANT; POLLUTANT; PRECIPITATION; SOIL;

AIR MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FRESH WATER; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; LINDANE; MODELS, CHEMICAL; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; SOIL; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 78449242144     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es101771g     Document Type: Article

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