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Robinson, Craig D.; Webster, Lynda; Martinez-gomez, Concepcion; Burgeot, Thierry; Gubbins, Matthew J.; Thain, John E.; Vethaak, A. Dick; Mcintosh, Alistair D.; Hylland, Ketil. |
Understanding the status of contaminants in the marine environment is a requirement of European Union Directives and the Regional Seas Conventions, so that measures to reduce pollution can be identified and their efficacy assessed. The international ICON workshop (Hylland et al., in this issue) was developed in order to test an integrated approach to assessing both contaminant concentrations and their effects. This paper describes and assesses the concentrations of trace metals, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, and polychlorinated biphenyls in sediments, mussels, and fish collected from estuarine, coastal and offshore waters from Iceland to the Mediterranean Sea. For organic contaminants, concentrations progressively increased from Iceland, to the... |
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Palavras-chave: Integrated assessment; ICES; North Atlantic; North Sea; Baltic Sea; Mediterranean Sea; Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs); Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs); Trace metals; Environmental monitoring. |
Ano: 2017 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00324/43520/43051.pdf |
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Gioia, Rosalinda; Macleod, Matthew; Castro-jimenez, Javier; Nizzetto, Luca; Dachs, Jordi; Lohmann, Rainer; Jones, Kevin C.. |
A diel (24-h) cycle with daytime atmospheric concentrations higher than nighttime concentrations by a factor of 1.5-3 was observed for several low molecular weight polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in remote areas of the tropical South Atlantic during a cruise in October-November 2005. In contrast, high molecular weight PCBs and PAHs did not display diurnal variability. A model which has successfully explained diel variability of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) over land could not reproduce the observed diel cycle by considering variability in temperature, atmospheric OH radical concentrations, atmospheric boundary layer height and wind speed as causal factors. We used the model to conduct two bounding... |
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Palavras-chave: Persistent organic pollutants (POPs); Diurnal cycle; Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs); Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs); South Atlantic. |
Ano: 2014 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00645/75721/76676.pdf |
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