Arctic sea ice is an important temporal sink and means of transport for microplastic
Microplastics (MP) are recognized as a growing environmental hazard and have been identified as far as the remote Polar Regions, with particularly high concentrations of microplastics in sea ice. Little is known regarding the horizontal variability of MP within sea ice and how the underlying water b...
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ftawi:oai:epic.awi.de:46090 2024-09-15T17:51:45+00:00 Arctic sea ice is an important temporal sink and means of transport for microplastic Peeken, Ilka Primpke, Sebastian Beyer, Birte Gütermann, Julia Katlein, Christian Krumpen, Thomas Bergmann, Melanie Hehemann, Laura Gerdts, Gunnar 2018-04-24 application/pdf https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/46090/ https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/46090/1/Peeken_et_al-2018-Nature_Communications-1.pdf https://rdcu.be/Ms3g https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.6c40eb84-b95e-44f7-a906-d97df0c9a2de unknown https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/46090/1/Peeken_et_al-2018-Nature_Communications-1.pdf Peeken, I. orcid:0000-0003-1531-1664 , Primpke, S. orcid:0000-0001-7633-8524 , Beyer, B. , Gütermann, J. , Katlein, C. orcid:0000-0003-2422-0414 , Krumpen, T. orcid:0000-0001-6234-8756 , Bergmann, M. orcid:0000-0001-5212-9808 , Hehemann, L. and Gerdts, G. orcid:0000-0003-0872-3927 (2018) Arctic sea ice is an important temporal sink and means of transport for microplastic , Nature Communications, 9 (1), p. 1505 . doi:10.1038/s41467-018-03825-5 <https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03825-5> , hdl:10013/epic.6c40eb84-b95e-44f7-a906-d97df0c9a2de EPIC3Nature Communications, 9(1), pp. 1505, ISSN: 2041-1723 Article isiRev 2018 ftawi https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03825-5 2024-06-24T04:18:50Z Microplastics (MP) are recognized as a growing environmental hazard and have been identified as far as the remote Polar Regions, with particularly high concentrations of microplastics in sea ice. Little is known regarding the horizontal variability of MP within sea ice and how the underlying water body affects MP composition during sea ice growth. Here we show that sea ice MP has no uniform polymer composition and that, depending on the growth region and drift paths of the sea ice, unique MP patterns can be observed in different sea ice horizons. Thus even in remote regions such as the Arctic Ocean, certain MP indicate the presence of localized sources. Increasing exploitation of Arctic resources will likely lead to a higher MP load in the Arctic sea ice and will enhance the release of MP in the areas of strong seasonal sea ice melt and the outflow gateways Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Ocean Sea ice Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar- and Marine Research (AWI): ePIC (electronic Publication Information Center) Nature Communications 9 1 |
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Microplastics (MP) are recognized as a growing environmental hazard and have been identified as far as the remote Polar Regions, with particularly high concentrations of microplastics in sea ice. Little is known regarding the horizontal variability of MP within sea ice and how the underlying water body affects MP composition during sea ice growth. Here we show that sea ice MP has no uniform polymer composition and that, depending on the growth region and drift paths of the sea ice, unique MP patterns can be observed in different sea ice horizons. Thus even in remote regions such as the Arctic Ocean, certain MP indicate the presence of localized sources. Increasing exploitation of Arctic resources will likely lead to a higher MP load in the Arctic sea ice and will enhance the release of MP in the areas of strong seasonal sea ice melt and the outflow gateways |
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Peeken, Ilka Primpke, Sebastian Beyer, Birte Gütermann, Julia Katlein, Christian Krumpen, Thomas Bergmann, Melanie Hehemann, Laura Gerdts, Gunnar |
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Peeken, Ilka Primpke, Sebastian Beyer, Birte Gütermann, Julia Katlein, Christian Krumpen, Thomas Bergmann, Melanie Hehemann, Laura Gerdts, Gunnar Arctic sea ice is an important temporal sink and means of transport for microplastic |
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Peeken, Ilka Primpke, Sebastian Beyer, Birte Gütermann, Julia Katlein, Christian Krumpen, Thomas Bergmann, Melanie Hehemann, Laura Gerdts, Gunnar |
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Arctic sea ice is an important temporal sink and means of transport for microplastic |
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Arctic sea ice is an important temporal sink and means of transport for microplastic |
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Arctic sea ice is an important temporal sink and means of transport for microplastic |
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Arctic sea ice is an important temporal sink and means of transport for microplastic |
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Arctic sea ice is an important temporal sink and means of transport for microplastic |
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arctic sea ice is an important temporal sink and means of transport for microplastic |
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