Pivotal Role of Snow Deposition and Melting Driving Fluxes of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons at Coastal Livingston Island (Antarctica)

• Published in: Environmental Science & Technology
• Main Authors: Casal, Paulo, Cabrerizo, Ana, Vila-Costa, Maria, Pizarro, M., Jiménez, Begoña, Dachs, Jordi
• Other Authors: Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad (España), European Commission, Generalitat de Catalunya
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: American Chemical Society 2018
• Subjects: Austral; Livingston Island; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/174001; https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.8b03640; https://doi.org/10.13039/501100000780; https://doi.org/10.13039/501100002809; https://doi.org/10.13039/501100010198

The atmosphere-land-ocean dynamics of semivolatile organic compounds in polar regions is poorly understood, also for the abundant and ubiquitous polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). We report the concentrations and fluxes of PAHs in a polar coastal ecosystem (Livingston Island, Antarctica). From...