Atmospheric transport and accumulation of organochlorine compounds on the southern slopes of the Himalayas, Nepal

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 192, Issue , 2014, Pages 44-51

  Gong, Ping ^a   Wang, Xiao Ping ^a   Li, Sheng Hai ^a   Yu, Wu Sheng ^a   Li, Jiu Le ^a   Kattel, Dambaru Ballab ^a,c   Wang, Wei Cai ^a   Devkota, Lochan Prasad ^b   Yao, Tan Dong ^a   Joswiak, Daniel R ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b TRIBHUVAN UNIVERSITY   (Nepal)

^c Department of Electrical Computer Engineering   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Air soil exchange; Altitudinal distribution; Cold trapping; Hierarchical clustering analysis (HCA); Persistent organic pollutants (POPs)

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; SOILS;

ALTITUDINAL DISTRIBUTIONS; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; COLD-TRAPPING; DEPOSITION TENDENCY; ENVIRONMENTAL BEHAVIOR; HIERARCHICAL CLUSTERING ANALYSIS; ORGANOCHLORINE COMPOUNDS; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

ORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

ACCUMULATION RATE; AIR-SOIL INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DDT; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; MOUNTAIN REGION; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; ORGANOCHLORINE; PCB; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SOIL POLLUTION; SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS;

AIR ANALYSIS; AIR SOIL EXCHANGE; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; BIOACCUMULATION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; NEPAL; PLANT LEAF; SOIL ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTY; URBAN AREA;

HIMALAYAS; NEPAL;

AIR-SOIL EXCHANGE; ALTITUDINAL DISTRIBUTION; COLD-TRAPPING; HIERARCHICAL CLUSTERING ANALYSIS (HCA); PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS (POPS);

AIR; AIR POLLUTANTS; ALTITUDE; ATMOSPHERE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; NEPAL; PLANT LEAVES; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

EID: 84901938735     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: 18736424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2014.05.015     Document Type: Article

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