Four-year advanced monitoring program of polar pesticides in groundwater of Catalonia (NE-Spain)

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 470-471, Issue , 2014, Pages 1087-1098

  Köck Schulmeyer, Marianne ^a   Ginebreda, Antoni ^a   Postigo, Cristina ^a   Garrido, Teresa ^b   Fraile, Josep ^b   López de Alda, Miren ^a   Barceló, Damià ^a,c  

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

^b Catalan Water Agency   (Spain)

^c CATALAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH ICRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Catalonia; Groundwater; Monitoring; Polar pesticides

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HERBICIDES; HYDROGEOLOGY; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MONITORING; UREA;

ADVANCED MONITORING; CATALONIA; LIMITS OF DETECTION; MEAN CONCENTRATIONS; OPERATIONAL MONITORING; PESTICIDE CONTAMINATIONS; POLAR PESTICIDES; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

GROUNDWATER RESOURCES;

2 AMINO 4 CHLORO 6 ETHYLAMINO 1,3,5 TRIAZINE; ALACHLOR; ANILIDE; ATRAZINE; CARBANILAMIDE; CYANAZINE; DEETHYLATRAZINE; DIMETHOATE; FENITROTHION; GROUND WATER; LINURON; MALATHION; MECOPROP; METOLACHLOR; MOLINATE; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUND; PESTICIDE; PROPACHLOR; PROPANIL; SIMAZINE; TERBUTYLAZINE; THIOCARBAMIC ACID; TRIAZINE DERIVATIVE;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EUROPEAN UNION; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; PESTICIDE; POLLUTION MONITORING;

AQUIFER; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); LIMIT OF DETECTION; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; POLLUTION MONITORING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION; SPAIN; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; VALIDATION STUDY; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SAMPLING;

CATALONIA; LERIDA [CATALONIA]; SPAIN;

CATALONIA; GROUNDWATER; MONITORING; POLAR PESTICIDES;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GROUNDWATER; PESTICIDES; SPAIN; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84887677795     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.10.079     Document Type: Article

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