Transport and fate of hexachlorocyclohexanes in the oceanic air and surface seawater

Biogeosciences

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2621-2633

  Xie, Z ^a   Koch, B P ^b,c   Moller A ^a   Sturm, R ^a   Ebinghaus, R ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR SAMPLING; AIR-WATER INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; HCH; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PESTICIDE APPLICATION; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SEAWATER; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE WATER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 80053092108     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-8-2621-2011     Document Type: Article

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