PCBs and OCPs on a east-to-west transect: The importance of major currents and net volatilization for PCBs in the atlantic ocean

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 19, 2012, Pages 10471-10479

  Lohmann, Rainer ^a,b   Klanova, Jana ^c   Kukucka, Petr ^c   Yonis, Shifra ^a   Bollinger, Kevyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR; DISSOLUTION; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; PESTICIDES; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; TROPICS;

AIR-WATER EXCHANGE; ATMOSPHERIC CONCENTRATION; DICHLORODIPHENYLTRICHLOROETHANE; DISSOLVED CONCENTRATIONS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDES; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS (PCB); TRANSFORMATION PRODUCTS;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

CHLORPHENOTANE; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; RIVER WATER;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DDT; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OCEANIC CURRENT; PCB; PESTICIDE; RIVER PLUME; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TRANSECT; VOLATILIZATION;

AIR ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATMOSPHERE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); GAS; PLUME; VOLATILIZATION; WATER FLOW; WATER SAMPLING;

AMAZON RIVER; ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84861919685     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es203459e     Document Type: Article

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