Atmospheric Transport, Cycling and Dynamics of Polychlorinated
Biphenyls (PCBs) from Source Regions to Remote Oceanic Areas

C 2013

Atmospheric Transport, Cycling and Dynamics of Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) from Source Regions to Remote Oceanic Areas

GIOIA, Rosalinda, Jordi DACHS, Luca NIZZETTO, Rainer LOHMANN, Kevin C. JONES et. al.

Basic information

Original name

Atmospheric Transport, Cycling and Dynamics of Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) from Source Regions to Remote Oceanic Areas

Authors

GIOIA, Rosalinda (guarantor), Jordi DACHS, Luca NIZZETTO (380 Italy, belonging to the institution), Rainer LOHMANN and Kevin C. JONES

Edition

WASHINGTON, DC, OCCURRENCE, FATE AND IMPACT OF ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTANTS ON ENVIRONMENTAL AND HUMAN HEALTH, p. 3-18, 16 pp. 2013

Publisher

AMER CHEMICAL SOC

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Kapitola resp. kapitoly v odborné knize

Field of Study

10511 Environmental sciences

Country of publisher

United States of America

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Publication form

printed version "print"

References:

URL

Organization unit

Faculty of Science

ISBN

978-0-8412-2890-0

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/bk-2013-1149.ch001

UT WoS

000328001100002

Keywords in English

PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; AIR-WATER EXCHANGE; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC-HYDROCARBONS; EUROPEAN BACKGROUND AIR; LONG-RANGE TRANSPORT; TEMPORAL TRENDS; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDES; COLD CONDENSATION; ATLANTIC-OCEAN; UK ATMOSPHERE

Abstract

V originále

Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are ubiquitous in the environment. Their persistence coupled with their potential toxicity has prompted international regulations and increased effort to understand their regional and global scale presence, and the processes that influence their fate and transport. PCBs can travel in the atmosphere away from source regions through long-range atmospheric transport and be deposited to water and terrestrial surfaces. This chapter focuses on the atmospheric concentrations of PCBs and factors controlling their spatial and temporal variability from source regions to oceanic remote areas. Air data show a strong latitudinal trend with the highest PCB concentrations in Europe and the lowest in the Arctic and in the tropical and subtropical southern hemisphere. High PCB levels were observed off the west coast of Africa and Asia, and possible factors controlling these high levels and their implications for the global cycling of PCBs are discussed. Furthermore, air-water interactions are disussed in remote areas of the open ocean. Of particular importance is the evidence for near steady-state air-water equilibrium or net volatilization in the tropical and subtropical regions, while advective inputs still dominate in the Northern hemisphere. Net deposition dominates over volatilization in the Arctic region. This chapter seeks o examine recent findings in the global transport of PCBs and to identify areas of uncertainty in the understanding of the factors controlling the residence time of PCBs in different areas of the globe.

Citovat

GIOIA, Rosalinda, Jordi DACHS, Luca NIZZETTO, Rainer LOHMANN and Kevin C. JONES. Atmospheric Transport, Cycling and Dynamics of Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) from Source Regions to Remote Oceanic Areas. In McConnell, LL; Dachs, J; Hapeman, CJ. OCCURRENCE, FATE AND IMPACT OF ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTANTS ON ENVIRONMENTAL AND HUMAN HEALTH. WASHINGTON, DC: AMER CHEMICAL SOC, 2013, p. 3-18. ISBN 978-0-8412-2890-0. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/bk-2013-1149.ch001.

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GIOIA, Rosalinda, Jordi DACHS, Luca NIZZETTO, Rainer LOHMANN and Kevin C. JONES. Atmospheric Transport, Cycling and Dynamics of Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) from Source Regions to Remote Oceanic Areas. In McConnell, LL; Dachs, J; Hapeman, CJ. \textit{OCCURRENCE, FATE AND IMPACT OF ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTANTS ON ENVIRONMENTAL AND HUMAN HEALTH}. WASHINGTON, DC: AMER CHEMICAL SOC, 2013, p.~3-18. ISBN~978-0-8412-2890-0. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/bk-2013-1149.ch001.

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