LAMMEL, Gerhard, Celine DEGRENDELE, Sachin S. GUNTHE, Qing MU, Akila MUTHALAGU, Ondřej AUDY, Chelackal V. BIJU, Petr KUKUČKA, Marie Daniëlle MULDER, Mega OCTAVIANI, Petra PŘIBYLOVÁ, Pourya SHAHPOURY, Irene STEMMLER and Aswathy E. VALSAN. Revolatilisation of soil-accumulated pollutants triggered by the summer monsoon in India. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. Göttingen, Germany: European Geosciences Union, 2018, vol. 18, No 15, p. 11031-11040. ISSN 1680-7316. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-11031-2018.
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Original name Revolatilisation of soil-accumulated pollutants triggered by the summer monsoon in India
Authors LAMMEL, Gerhard (276 Germany, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Celine DEGRENDELE (250 France, belonging to the institution), Sachin S. GUNTHE (356 India), Qing MU (276 Germany), Akila MUTHALAGU (356 India), Ondřej AUDY (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Chelackal V. BIJU (356 India), Petr KUKUČKA (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Marie Daniëlle MULDER (528 Netherlands, belonging to the institution), Mega OCTAVIANI (276 Germany), Petra PŘIBYLOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Pourya SHAHPOURY (276 Germany), Irene STEMMLER (276 Germany) and Aswathy E. VALSAN (356 India).
Edition Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Göttingen, Germany, European Geosciences Union, 2018, 1680-7316.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 10509 Meteorology and atmospheric sciences
Country of publisher Germany
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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Impact factor Impact factor: 5.668
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14310/18:00106068
Organization unit Faculty of Science
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-11031-2018
UT WoS 000440940600003
Keywords in English PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHERS; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDES; SOUTH-INDIA; POLYCHLORINATED-BIPHENYLS; AIR EXCHANGE; MULTICOMPARTMENTAL FATE; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; COASTAL ENVIRONMENT; TIBETAN PLATEAU
Tags International impact, Reviewed
Changed by Changed by: Mgr. Michaela Hylsová, Ph.D., učo 211937. Changed: 4/2/2019 22:02.
Abstract
Persistent organic pollutants that have accumulated in soils can be remobilised by volatilisation in response to chemical equilibrium with the atmosphere. Clean air masses from the Indian Ocean, advected with the onset of the summer monsoon, are found to reduce concentrations of hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH), dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) and its derivatives, endosulfan and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in air at a mountain site (all in the range 5-20 pg m(-3)) by 77 %, 70 %, 82 % and 45 %, respectively. The analysis of fugacities in soil and air suggest that the arrival of summer monsoon triggers net volatilisation or enhances ongoing revolatilisation of the now-banned chemicals HCH and PCBs from background soils in southern India. The response of the air-soil exchange was modelled using a regional air pollution model, WRF-Chem PAH/POP. The results suggest that the air is increasingly polluted during transport by the south-westerly monsoon winds across the subcontinent. Using a multidecadal multimedia mass balance model, it is found that air-surface exchange of HCH and DDT have declined since the ban of these substances from agriculture, but remobilisation of higher chlorinated PCBs may have reached a historical high, 40 years after peak emission.
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CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_013/0001761, interní kód MUName: RECETOX RI - OP VVV (Acronym: RECETOX RI)
Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR, Priority axis 1: Strengthening capacities for high-quality research
LM2015051, research and development projectName: Centrum pro výzkum toxických látek v prostředí (Acronym: RECETOX RI)
Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR
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