Polychlorinated Biphenyls in a Temperate Alpine Glacier: 2. Model Results of Chemical Fate Processes

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 24, 2015, Pages 14092-14100

  Steinlin, Christine ^a   Bogdal, Christian ^a,b   Pavlova, Pavlina A ^c,d,e   Schwikowski, Margit ^d,e   Lüthi, Martin P ^a,f   Scheringer, Martin ^a,g   Schmid, Peter ^c   Hungerbühler, Konrad ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b AGROSCOPE RECKENHOLZ TÄNIKON RESEARCH STATION ART   (Switzerland)

^c SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^d PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^g LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS;

ALPINE GLACIER; CHLORINATED CONGENERS; PCB CONCENTRATION; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL (PCBS); RE-VOLATILIZATION; SNOW ACCUMULATION; TEMPERATE GLACIERS; WATER-SOLUBLE SUBSTANCES;

ORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; ORGANIC COMPOUND; SNOW;

ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; ICE CORE; MELTING; PCB; SNOW ACCUMULATION; VALLEY GLACIER; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; COLD; ELUTION; GLACIER; SWITZERLAND; TEMPERATURE; CHEMISTRY; ICE COVER; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNCERTAINTY;

GRAUBUNDEN; SILVRETTA GLACIER; SWITZERLAND;

CHEMICAL PROCESSES; ICE COVER; MODELS, THEORETICAL; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; SNOW; SWITZERLAND; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 84950139963     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b03304     Document Type: Article

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