Atmospheric concentrations of organic pollutants in the Arctic between 1993-2006
Continuous and comparable atmospheric monitoring programs to study the transport and occurrence of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in the atmosphere of remote regions is essential to better understand the global movement of these chemicals and to evaluate the effectiveness of international cont...
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ftpangaea:oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.786757 2024-09-15T17:50:26+00:00 Atmospheric concentrations of organic pollutants in the Arctic between 1993-2006 Hung, Hayley Kallenborn, Roland Breivik, Knut Su, Yushan Brorström-Lundén, Eva Olafsdottir, Kristin Thorlacius, Johanna M Leppänen, Sirkka Bossi, Rossana Skov, Henrik Manø, Stein Patton, Gregory W Stern, Gary A Sverko, Ed Fellin, Phil MEDIAN LATITUDE: 72.043022 * MEDIAN LONGITUDE: -35.404999 * SOUTH-BOUND LATITUDE: 60.333330 * WEST-BOUND LONGITUDE: -159.666666 * NORTH-BOUND LATITUDE: 82.500000 * EAST-BOUND LONGITUDE: 124.500000 * DATE/TIME START: 1993-01-01T00:00:00 * DATE/TIME END: 2006-01-01T00:00:00 2010 application/zip, 4 datasets https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.786757 https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.786757 en eng PANGAEA https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.786757 https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.786757 CC-BY-3.0: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Access constraints: unrestricted info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Supplement to: Hung, Hayley; Kallenborn, Roland; Breivik, Knut; Su, Yushan; Brorström-Lundén, Eva; Olafsdottir, Kristin; Thorlacius, Johanna M; Leppänen, Sirkka; Bossi, Rossana; Skov, Henrik; Manø, Stein; Patton, Gregory W; Stern, Gary A; Sverko, Ed; Fellin, Phil (2010): Atmospheric monitoring of organic pollutants in the Arctic under the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP): 1993–2006. Science of the Total Environment, 408(15), 2854-2873, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2009.10.044 International Polar Year (2007-2008) ipy dataset publication series 2010 ftpangaea https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.78675710.1016/j.scitotenv.2009.10.044 2024-07-24T02:31:21Z Continuous and comparable atmospheric monitoring programs to study the transport and occurrence of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in the atmosphere of remote regions is essential to better understand the global movement of these chemicals and to evaluate the effectiveness of international control measures. Key results from four main Arctic research stations, Alert (Canada), Pallas (Finland), Storhofdi (Iceland) and Zeppelin (Svalbard/Norway), where long-term monitoring have been carried out since the early 1990s, are summarized. We have also included a discussion of main results from various Arctic satellite stations in Canada, Russia, US (Alaska) and Greenland which have been operational for shorter time periods. Using the Digital Filtration temporal trend development technique, it was found that while some POPs showed more or less consistent declines during the 1990s, this reduction is less apparent in recent years at some sites. In contrast, polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) were still found to be increasing by 2005 at Alert with doubling times of 3.5 years in the case of deca-BDE. Levels and patterns of most POPs in Arctic air are also showing spatial variability, which is typically explained by differences in proximity to suspected key source regions and long-range atmospheric transport potentials. Furthermore, increase in worldwide usage of certain pesticides, e.g. chlorothalonil and quintozene, which are contaminated with hexachlorobenzene (HCB), may result in an increase in Arctic air concentration of HCB. The results combined also indicate that both temporal and spatial patterns of POPs in Arctic air may be affected by various processes driven by climate change, such as reduced ice cover, increasing seawater temperatures and an increase in biomass burning in boreal regions as exemplified by the data from the Zeppelin and Alert stations. Further research and continued air monitoring are needed to better understand these processes and its future impact on the Arctic environment. Other/Unknown Material Arctic Climate change Greenland Iceland International Polar Year IPY Svalbard Alaska PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science ENVELOPE(-159.666666,124.500000,82.500000,60.333330) |
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Continuous and comparable atmospheric monitoring programs to study the transport and occurrence of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in the atmosphere of remote regions is essential to better understand the global movement of these chemicals and to evaluate the effectiveness of international control measures. Key results from four main Arctic research stations, Alert (Canada), Pallas (Finland), Storhofdi (Iceland) and Zeppelin (Svalbard/Norway), where long-term monitoring have been carried out since the early 1990s, are summarized. We have also included a discussion of main results from various Arctic satellite stations in Canada, Russia, US (Alaska) and Greenland which have been operational for shorter time periods. Using the Digital Filtration temporal trend development technique, it was found that while some POPs showed more or less consistent declines during the 1990s, this reduction is less apparent in recent years at some sites. In contrast, polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) were still found to be increasing by 2005 at Alert with doubling times of 3.5 years in the case of deca-BDE. Levels and patterns of most POPs in Arctic air are also showing spatial variability, which is typically explained by differences in proximity to suspected key source regions and long-range atmospheric transport potentials. Furthermore, increase in worldwide usage of certain pesticides, e.g. chlorothalonil and quintozene, which are contaminated with hexachlorobenzene (HCB), may result in an increase in Arctic air concentration of HCB. The results combined also indicate that both temporal and spatial patterns of POPs in Arctic air may be affected by various processes driven by climate change, such as reduced ice cover, increasing seawater temperatures and an increase in biomass burning in boreal regions as exemplified by the data from the Zeppelin and Alert stations. Further research and continued air monitoring are needed to better understand these processes and its future impact on the Arctic environment. |
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Hung, Hayley Kallenborn, Roland Breivik, Knut Su, Yushan Brorström-Lundén, Eva Olafsdottir, Kristin Thorlacius, Johanna M Leppänen, Sirkka Bossi, Rossana Skov, Henrik Manø, Stein Patton, Gregory W Stern, Gary A Sverko, Ed Fellin, Phil |
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Hung, Hayley Kallenborn, Roland Breivik, Knut Su, Yushan Brorström-Lundén, Eva Olafsdottir, Kristin Thorlacius, Johanna M Leppänen, Sirkka Bossi, Rossana Skov, Henrik Manø, Stein Patton, Gregory W Stern, Gary A Sverko, Ed Fellin, Phil |
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Atmospheric concentrations of organic pollutants in the Arctic between 1993-2006 |
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Atmospheric concentrations of organic pollutants in the Arctic between 1993-2006 |
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Atmospheric concentrations of organic pollutants in the Arctic between 1993-2006 |
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Atmospheric concentrations of organic pollutants in the Arctic between 1993-2006 |
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Atmospheric concentrations of organic pollutants in the Arctic between 1993-2006 |
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atmospheric concentrations of organic pollutants in the arctic between 1993-2006 |
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MEDIAN LATITUDE: 72.043022 * MEDIAN LONGITUDE: -35.404999 * SOUTH-BOUND LATITUDE: 60.333330 * WEST-BOUND LONGITUDE: -159.666666 * NORTH-BOUND LATITUDE: 82.500000 * EAST-BOUND LONGITUDE: 124.500000 * DATE/TIME START: 1993-01-01T00:00:00 * DATE/TIME END: 2006-01-01T00:00:00 |
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Arctic Climate change Greenland Iceland International Polar Year IPY Svalbard Alaska |
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Supplement to: Hung, Hayley; Kallenborn, Roland; Breivik, Knut; Su, Yushan; Brorström-Lundén, Eva; Olafsdottir, Kristin; Thorlacius, Johanna M; Leppänen, Sirkka; Bossi, Rossana; Skov, Henrik; Manø, Stein; Patton, Gregory W; Stern, Gary A; Sverko, Ed; Fellin, Phil (2010): Atmospheric monitoring of organic pollutants in the Arctic under the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP): 1993–2006. Science of the Total Environment, 408(15), 2854-2873, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2009.10.044 |
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