Deposition fluxes and fate of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the Yangtze River estuarine-inner shelf in the East China Sea

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 77-87

  Lin, Tian ^a   Hu, Limin ^b   Guo, Zhigang ^a,c   Zhang, Gan ^d   Yang, Zuosheng ^c  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FIRST INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (China)

^c OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^d GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

deposition flux; East Asian monsoon driven re suspension and transport; East China Sea; fate; PAHs; Yangtze River estuarine inner shelf

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION FLUXES; EAST CHINA SEA; FATE; PAHS; RE-SUSPENSION; YANGTZE RIVER;

DEPOSITION; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEDIMENTS;

ESTUARIES;

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; FLUX MEASUREMENT; MARINE SEDIMENT; MASS TRANSFER; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PAH; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SURFICIAL SEDIMENT;

CHINA; EAST CHINA SEA; PACIFIC OCEAN; YANGTZE RIVER;

EID: 84880696134     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: 19449224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GB004317     Document Type: Article

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