Ombrotrophic peat bogs are not suited as natural archives to investigate the historical atmospheric deposition of perfluoroalkyl substances

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 7512-7519

  Dreyer, Annekatrin ^a,b   Thuens, Sabine ^c   Kirchgeorg, Torben ^b,d   Radke, Michael ^c,e  

^a Eurofins Medinet Inc   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^d CA' FOSCARI UNIVERSITY OF VENICE   (Italy)

^e STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

20TH CENTURY; AIRBORNE POLLUTANTS; ANALYTES; ATMOSPHERIC CONTAMINATION; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITIONS; ATMOSPHERIC INPUTS; DEPOSITION FLUXES; HPLC-MS; OMBROTROPHIC PEAT; PEAT CORES; PEAT SAMPLES; PERFLUOROOCTANE SULFONATES; PERFLUOROOCTANOATE; TEMPORAL TRENDS; ULTRA-SONICATION;

CARBOXYLATION; DEPOSITION RATES; METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS; WETLANDS;

PEAT;

ALKYL GROUP; PERFLUOROALKYL CARBOXYLATE; PERFLUORORALKYL SULFONAMIDO; PERFLUORORALKYL SULFONATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CORE ANALYSIS; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; MOBILITY; OMBROTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PEATLAND; TREND ANALYSIS; ULTRASONICS;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; CALCULATION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; PEATLAND; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; ULTRASOUND; URBAN AREA;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ATMOSPHERE; CANADA; FLUOROCARBONS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; SOIL; TIME FACTORS; WETLANDS;

CANADA; MER BLEUE; ONTARIO [CANADA];

EID: 84863904203     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es204175y     Document Type: Article

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