Distribution and inventories of polychlorinated biphenyls in the polar mixed layer of seven pan-arctic shelf seas and the interior basins

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1420-1427

  Carrizo, Daniel ^a   Gustafsson, Örjan ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC BASIN; ARCTIC OCEAN; CENTRAL BASIN; EASTERN ARCTIC; FOOD CHAIN; LAPTEV SEA; MIXED LAYER; PAN-ARCTIC; PCB CONCENTRATION; PCB EMISSIONS; SHELF SEAS; SURFACE SEAWATER; WATERBORNE TRANSPORT;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); HEAVY WATER; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; SEAWATER;

CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION;

POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL DERIVATIVE; SEA WATER; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; WATER POLLUTANT;

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; FOOD CHAIN; MIXED LAYER; PCB; SEAWATER; SHELF SEA; SURFACE WATER;

ARCTIC; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPE; FINGER DERMATOGLYPHICS; NORTH AMERICA; PAN ARCTIC SHELF SEA; SEA; SURFACE PROPERTY; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOOD CHAIN; WATER POLLUTANT;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BEAUFORT SEA; CHUKCHI SEA; LAPTEV SEA;

ARCTIC REGIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUROPE; FOOD CHAIN; NORTH AMERICA; OCEANS AND SEAS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; SEAWATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 79951646031     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es103542f     Document Type: Article

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