Factors affecting the occurrence and transport of atmospheric organochlorines in the China Sea and the northern Indian and South East Atlantic Oceans

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 10012-10021

  Gioia, Rosalinda ^a,b   Li, Jun ^c   Schuster, Jasmin ^a   Zhang, Yanlin ^c   Zhang, Gan ^c   Li, Xiangdong ^d   Spiro, Baruch ^e   Bhatia, Ravinder S ^f   Dachs, Jordi ^b   Jones, Kevin C ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND WATER RESEARCH   (Spain)

^c GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^d HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^e DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^f JOINT ALMA OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR SAMPLES; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATMOSPHERIC CONCENTRATION; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; CAPE TOWN , SOUTH AFRICA; CENTRAL ATLANTIC OCEAN; FIRST ORDER KINETICS; INDIAN OCEAN; OCEAN SURFACES; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDES; ORGANOCHLORINES; PCB CONGENERS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL (PCBS); RE-VOLATILIZATION; REMOTE REGIONS; RESIDENCE TIME; SHANGHAI , CHINA; SOUTH ATLANTIC; SOUTH CHINA SEA; VOLATILE COMPOUNDS; WIND DIRECTIONS;

OCEANOGRAPHY; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; SHIPS; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

CHLORPHENOTANE; ENDOSULFAN; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

AIR SAMPLING; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; ORGANOCHLORINE; PCB; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; REACTION KINETICS; SEA SURFACE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; CHINA; PARTICULATE MATTER; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; SEA; SEASHORE; SOUTH AFRICA; VOLATILIZATION;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATMOSPHERE; CAPE VERDE; CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; INDIAN OCEAN; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; SOUTH AFRICA; VOLATILIZATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTHEAST); INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 84866381932     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es302037t     Document Type: Article

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