Long-term monitoring of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) at the Norwegian Troll station in Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 13, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 6983-6992

  Kallenborn, R ^a,b   Breivik, K ^a,c   Eckhardt, S ^a   Lunder, C R ^a   Mano S ^a   Schlabach, M ^a   Stohl, A ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PLUME; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; DISPERSION; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PCB; PESTICIDE; POLLUTION MONITORING;

ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC; EAST ANTARCTICA; NORWAY; QUEEN MAUD LAND; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN; ZEPPELIN STATION;

EID: 84890456957     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-13-6983-2013     Document Type: Article

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