Research and Monitoring of Atmospheric Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in the Polar Atmosphere

• Main Authors: Kallenborn, Roland, Hung, Hayley, Harner, Tom, Bohlin-Nizzetto, Pernilla, Bengtson Nash, Susan
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2016
• Subjects: Other environmental sciences not elsewhere classified; Antarctic; Arctic; Canada; Dronning Maud Land; Norway; Ny-Ålesund; Pacific; Svalbard; Troll; Trollhaugen; AMAP; Antarc*; Antarctica; International Polar Year; IPY; Ny Ålesund
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10072/143312; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12315-3_2

Atmospheric monitoring of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) belongs to the longest surveys performed in the Arctic regions on a national and on a regional level coordinated by the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP). The first long atmospheric monitoring of POPs in the Arctic starte...