Temporal trends of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in arctic air: 20 years of monitoring under the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP)

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 217, Issue , 2016, Pages 52-61

  Hung, Hayley ^a   Katsoyiannis, Athanasios A ^b   Brorström Lundén, Eva ^c   Olafsdottir, Kristin ^d   Aas, Wenche ^b   Breivik, Knut ^b   Bohlin Nizzetto, Pernilla ^b   Sigurdsson, Arni ^e   Hakola, Hannele ^f   Bossi, Rossana ^g   Skov, Henrik ^g   Sverko, Ed ^a   Barresi, Enzo ^a   Fellin, Phil ^h   Wilson, Simon ⁱ  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c IVL SWEDISH ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^e ICELANDIC METEOROLOGICAL OFFICE   (Iceland)

^f FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^g AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^h AIRZONE ONE LTD   (Canada)

ⁱ Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) Secretariat   (Norway)

Author keywords

Air; Arctic; Persistent organic pollutants; Seasonality; Temporal trends

Indexed keywords

AIR; AIR POLLUTION; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); MONITORING; POLLUTION; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; SECONDARY EMISSION;

ARCTIC; LONG-RANGE TRANSPORT POTENTIALS; LONG-TERM AIR MONITORING OF POPS; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANT (POP); POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER (PBDES); POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL (PCBS); SEASONALITY; TEMPORAL TRENDS;

ORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

CAMPHECLOR; CHLORDANE; CHLORPHENOTANE; ENDOSULFAN; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; HEXACHLOROCYCLOHEXANE; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; AIR POLLUTANT; DIPHENYL ETHER DERIVATIVE;

AIR SAMPLING; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANT; SEASONALITY; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS;

AIR SAMPLING; AMBIENT AIR; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; CANADA; CARBON FOOTPRINT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); FINLAND; ICELAND; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN; TIME FACTOR; AIR POLLUTANT; ANALYSIS; ATMOSPHERE; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; PROGRAM EVALUATION;

ALERT; ARCTIC; CANADA; ELLESMERE ISLAND; FINLAND; ICELAND; LAPPI [FINLAND]; NUNAVUT; PALLAS; QUEEN ELIZABETH ISLANDS; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN; ZEPPELIN STATION;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ARCTIC REGIONS; ATMOSPHERE; CANADA; CHLORDAN; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FINLAND; HALOGENATED DIPHENYL ETHERS; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; ICELAND; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; SVALBARD; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84971451856     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: 18736424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2016.01.079     Document Type: Article

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