Exploring the role of shelf sediments in the arctic ocean in determining the arctic contamination potential of neutral organic contaminants

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 923-931

  Armitage, James M ^a   Choi, Sung Deuk ^a,b   Meyer, Torsten ^a   Brown, Trevor N ^a   Wania, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-WATER; ARCTIC CONTAMINATION POTENTIALS; ARCTIC OCEAN; EMISSION SCENARIO; HYDROPHOBIC ORGANIC CHEMICALS; LONG TERM SIMULATION; ORGANIC CONTAMINANT; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PELAGIC FOOD WEB; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL CONGENER; PRIMARY EMISSIONS; SHELF SEDIMENT; SURFACE OCEAN; TOTAL MASS;

INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS; OCEANOGRAPHY; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; SEDIMENTS;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

NEUTRAL ORGANIC CONTAMINANT; ORGANIC COMPOUND; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; HYDROPHOBICITY; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PCB; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SHELF SEDIMENT;

ARCTIC; ARTICLE; CONTINENTAL SHELF; EXHAUST GAS; SEDIMENT; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ARCTIC REGIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; OCEANS AND SEAS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84872568060     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es304276g     Document Type: Article

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