Long-term monitoring of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) at the Norwegian Troll station in Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica

• Published in: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
• Main Authors: Kallenborn, Roland, Breivik, Knut, Eckhardt, Sabine, Lunder, Chris Rene, Manø, Stein, Schlabach, Martin, Stohl, Andreas
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus 2013
• Subjects: Antarctic; Arctic; Dronning Maud Land; Ny-Ålesund; Svalbard; Troll; Troll Station; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ny Ålesund
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10852/50326; http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-53956; https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-6983-2013

A first long-term monitoring of selected persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in Antarctic air has been conducted at the Norwegian research station Troll (Dronning Maud Land). As target contaminants 32 PCB congeners, α- and γ-hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH), trans- and cis-chlordane, trans- and cis-nona...