Changing sources and environmental factors reduce the rates of decline of organochlorine pesticides in the Arctic atmosphere

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 4033-4044

  Becker, S ^a   Halsall, C J ^a   Tych, W ^a   Kallenborn, R ^b,c   Schlabach, M ^b   Mano S ^b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORDANE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DATABASE; DDT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; ORGANOCHLORINE; PESTICIDE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ARCTIC; NY-ALESUND; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 84860713350     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-12-4033-2012     Document Type: Article

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