Fractionation and current time trends of PCB congeners: Evolvement of distributions 1950-2010 studied using a global atmosphere-ocean general circulation model

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LAMMEL Gerhard STEMMLER I.

Year of publication 2012
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
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Web http://www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/12/11699/2012/
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/acp-12-7199-2012
Field Air pollution and control
Keywords PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL CONGENERS; HISTORICAL EMISSION INVENTORY; AIR PARTITION-COEFFICIENT; LONG-RANGE TRANSPORT; UK BACKGROUND AIR; 3-D DYNAMIC-MODEL; TEMPORAL TRENDS; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDES; LATITUDINAL FRACTIONATION
Description PCBs are ubiquitous environmental pollutants expected to decline in abiotic environmental media in response to decreasing primary emissions since the 1970s. A coupled atmosphere-ocean general circulation model with embedded dynamic sub-models for 5 atmospheric aerosols and the marine biogeochemistry and air-surface exchange processes with soils, vegetation and the cryosphere is used to study the transport and fate of four PCB congeners covering a range of 3–7 chlorine atoms. The results suggest furthermore that the effectiveness of emission control measures may significantly vary among substances: trends of decline in abiotic environmental media do not only vary with latitude (slow in high latitudes), but do also show longitudinal gradients.
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