Brief communication: Organochlorine pesticides in an archived firn core from Law Dome, East Antarctica

Cryosphere

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 2533-2539

  Bigot, Marie ^a   Curran, A J Mark ^b,c   Moy, Andrew D ^b,c   Muir, Derek C G ^d   Hawker, Darryl W ^a   Cropp, Roger ^a   Teixeira, Camilla F ^d   Nash, Susan M Bengtson ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^d ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EQUIPMENT; ICE CORE; MELTWATER; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; POLAR REGION;

ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC; EAST ANTARCTICA; LAW DOME;

EID: 84994036280     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-10-2533-2016     Document Type: Article

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