Determining air-water exchange, spatial and temporal trends of freely dissolved PAHs in an urban estuary using passive polyethylene samplers

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2655-2662

  Lohmann, Rainer ^a   Dapsis, Meredith ^a   Morgan, Eric J ^a,b   Dekany, Victoria ^a   Luey, Pamela J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-WATER EXCHANGE; AQUEOUS CONCENTRATIONS; EXPONENTIAL DECAYS; FLUORANTHENE; FUEL SPILLS; GASPHASE; OCEAN WATER; PAH RATIO; RESIDENCE TIME; RIVER FLOW; STRONG CORRELATION; TEMPORAL TRENDS; URBAN ESTUARY; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

AIR; AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); FOSSIL FUELS; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; POLYETHYLENES; STORMS; THERMOPLASTICS; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

DISSOLUTION;

FOSSIL FUEL; FRESH WATER; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; POLYETHYLENE; SEA WATER;

AIR-WATER INTERACTION; BAY; COMBUSTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISCHARGE; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; FLUSHING; FOSSIL FUEL; MOBILIZATION; PAH; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLYMER; RAINSTORM; RESIDENCE TIME; RIVER FLOW; SAMPLER; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIDAL CYCLE; URBAN AREA; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND; VOLATILIZATION; WASHOVER; WASTEWATER;

ARTICLE; ESTUARY; SPILLAGE; TIDE; VOLATILIZATION; WASTE WATER;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ATMOSPHERE; CITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FRESH WATER; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; POLYETHYLENE; SALINITY; SEAWATER; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

NARRAGANSETT BAY; RHODE ISLAND; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79953243032     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es1025883     Document Type: Article

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