Long-range transported atmospheric pollutants in snowpacks accumulated at different altitudes in the Tatra Mountains (Slovakia)

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 9268-9275

  Arellano, Lourdes ^a   Fernández, Pilar ^a   Tatosova, Jolana ^b   Stuchlik, Evzen ^b   Grimalt, Joan O ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND WATER RESEARCH   (Spain)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TRANSPORT; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTANTS; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; BDE 209; ENDOSULFAN SULFATE; ENDOSULFANS; GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; HEXACHLOROCYCLOHEXANES; HYDROPHOBIC POLLUTANTS; MEAN VALUES; MOUNTAIN REGIONS; ORGANOHALOGEN POLLUTANTS; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; POLYBROMODIPHENYL ETHERS; POLYCHLOROBIPHENYLS; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; REGRESSION COEFFICIENT; SLOVAKIA; VOLATILE COMPOUNDS;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS; CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; ETHERS; INSECTICIDES; LANDFORMS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; SNOW; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

ORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

ENDOSULFAN; ETHER DERIVATIVE; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; HEXACHLOROCYCLOHEXANE; ORGANOHALOGEN DERIVATIVE; POLYBROMODIPHENYL ETHER; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; SNOW; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOLATILE AGENT;

ACCUMULATION; ALTITUDE; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); HALOGEN; HYDROCARBON; HYDROPHOBICITY; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SNOWPACK; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VOLATILE SUBSTANCE;

AEROSOL; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; BROMINATION; HYDROPHOBICITY; ORGANIC POLLUTION; SEA LEVEL; SLOVAKIA; TEMPERATURE;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ALTITUDE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LINDANE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; SLOVAKIA; SNOW;

CARPATHIANS; SLOVAKIA; TATRA MOUNTAINS;

EID: 80055082817     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es202111n     Document Type: Article

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