The "degradative" and "biological" pumps controls on the atmospheric deposition and sequestration of hexachlorocyclohexanes and hexachlorobenzene in the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 7195-7203

  Galbán Malagón, Cristóbal J ^a   Berrojalbiz, Naiara ^a   Gioia, Rosalinda ^a   Dachs, Jordi ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CONCENTRATION; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITIONS; DEGRADATIVE PROCESS; DEPOSITIONAL FLUXES; HEXACHLOROCYCLOHEXANES; MICROBIAL DEGRADATION; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANT (POP); WATER CONCENTRATIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; BIODEGRADATION; DEPOSITION; FUNGICIDES; IMPORTANCE SAMPLING; METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

HEXACHLOROBENZENE; HEXACHLOROCYCLOHEXANE;

AEROSOL; AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; BIODEGRADATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); HYDROLYSIS; HYDROPHOBICITY; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PHYTOPLANKTON; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; PUMP; SURFACE WATER;

AEROSOL; ARCTIC OCEAN; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DEGRADATION; GAS; HYDROLYSIS; HYDROPHOBICITY; MEASUREMENT; MICROBIAL DEGRADATION; PHYTOPLANKTON; SEA;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ARCTIC REGIONS; BACTERIA; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; HYDROLYSIS; LINDANE; OCEANS AND SEAS; PHYTOPLANKTON; SEAWATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); GREENLAND;

EID: 84880088962     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es4011256     Document Type: Article

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