Effect of receiving environment on the transport and fate of polybrominated diphenyl ethers near two submarine municipal outfalls

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 566-573

  Dinn, Pamela M ^a   Johannessen, Sophia C ^b   Macdonald, Robie W ^b   Lowe, Christopher J ^c   Whiticar, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Canada)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Georgia Strait; Marine sediment; Particle reactive contaminants; Polybrominated diphenyl ethers; Submarine outfalls

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION-DIFFUSION; COASTAL WATERS; CURRENT VELOCITY; FRASER RIVER; GEORGIA; HIGH ENERGY; INORGANIC SEDIMENTS; LOW ENERGIES; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MARINE SEDIMENTS; NEAR-FIELD; PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHERS; SEDIMENTARY PROCESS; SEDIMENTATION RATES; SUBMARINE OUTFALLS; SURFACE MIXING;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); IMPURITIES; LEAD; OUTFALLS; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY; SUBMARINES;

ORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

LEAD 210; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER;

BURIAL (GEOLOGY); COASTAL WATER; COMPLEXITY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CURRENT VELOCITY; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; LEAD ISOTOPE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MARINE POLLUTION; MARINE SEDIMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PBDE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SEDIMENTATION RATE; UNDERWATER ENVIRONMENT; WASTEWATER;

ADVECTION; ARTICLE; CANADA; COASTAL WATERS; DIFFUSION; DISPERSION; ENERGY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; SEDIMENTATION RATE;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HALOGENATED DIPHENYL ETHERS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; SEAWATER; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; FRASER RIVER; STRAIT OF GEORGIA; VANCOUVER ISLAND; VICTORIA [VANCOUVER ISLAND];

EID: 84857502417     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: 15528618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.1735     Document Type: Article

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