Environmental Distribution Processes of Persistent Organic Pollutants in Polar Regions

• Main Author: Bigot, Marie Amandine Lydia
• Other Authors: Susan Bengtson Nash, Darryl Hawker, Roger Cropp
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: Griffith University 2016
• Subjects: Global atmospheric transpor; Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs); Polar biota; Arctic; Antarctic; Southern Ocean; Pacific; Indian; Griffith; Antarc*; Global warming; Ice Shelves; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366593

Global atmospheric transport has led to the dispersal of many Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) generated at lower latitudes, allowing them to reach Polar latitudes. Although the ice has long been considered simply as a means of immobilising these toxic chemicals, it is in fact an annual source t...