Persistent organic pollutants in the Tibetan surface soil: Spatial distribution, air-soil exchange and implications for global cycling

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 170, Issue , 2012, Pages 145-151

  Wang, Xiao Ping ^a   Sheng, Jiu Jiang ^a   Gong, Ping ^a   Xue, Yong Gang ^a   Yao, Tan Dong ^a   Jones, Kevin C ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Air soil exchange; Persistent organic pollutants; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

DETECTION LIMITS; LIMITED DATA; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDES; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANT (POP); PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER (PBDES); POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL (PCBS); SOIL CONCENTRATIONS; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON CONTENT; SOURCE REGION; SOUTH ASIA; SURFACE SOIL; TIBETAN PLATEAU; TIBETANS;

POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; SOILS;

ORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

CHLORPHENOTANE; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; LINDANE; ORGANIC CARBON; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

HEXACHLOROBENZENE; ORGANIC CARBON; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; ORGANOCHLORINE; PBDE; PCB; PESTICIDE; SOIL CARBON; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

AIR SOIL EXCHANGE; AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; ASIA; CHINA; CLIMATE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; LATITUDE; LIMIT OF DETECTION; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANT; POLLUTANT; POLLUTION DISTRIBUTION; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PRECIPITATION; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SURFACE SOIL;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ECOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROCESSES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HALOGENATED DIPHENYL ETHERS; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; PESTICIDES; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS; TIBET;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84864033746     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: 18736424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2012.06.012     Document Type: Article

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