Rain Amplification of Persistent Organic Pollutants

• Published in: Environmental Science & Technology
• Main Authors: Casas, Gemma, Martínez-Varela, Alicia, Vila-Costa, Maria, Jiménez, Begoña, Dachs, Jordi
• Other Authors: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Chemical Society 2021
• Subjects: Wet deposition; Snow; Scavenging; Amplification; PFASs; OPEs; Antarctica; PCBs; PBDEs; Livingston Island; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/253906; https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.1c03295; https://doi.org/10.13039/501100004837

Scavenging of gas- and aerosol-phase organic pollutants by rain is an efficient wet deposition mechanism of organic pollutants. However, whereas snow has been identified as a key amplification mechanism of fugacities in cold environments, rain has received less attention in terms of amplification of...