Occurrence of Volatile and Semi-Volatile Organic Pollutants in the Russian Arctic Atmosphere: The International Siberian Shelf Study Expedition (ISSS-2020)

• Published in: Atmosphere
• Main Authors: Dmitry S. Kosyakov, Irina S. Shavrina, Nikolay V. Ul’yanovskii, Dmitry E. Lakhmanov, Albert T. Lebedev
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Subjects: Russian Arctic; Arctic ocean; air pollution; volatile organic compounds; semi-volatile organic compounds; gas chromatography; high-resolution mass spectrometry; thermal desorption; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; White Sea; East Siberian Sea
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos12060767

Environmental issues in the Arctic region are of primary importance due to the fragility of the Arctic ecosystem. Mainly persistent organic compounds are monitored in the region by nine stationary laboratories. Information on the volatile (VOC) and semi volatile (SVOC) organic priority pollutants is...