Multi-year observations of organohalogen pesticides in the arctic atmosphere.

• Published in: Environmental Pollution
• Main Authors: Halsall, Crispin J., Bailey, R., Stern, G. A., Barrie, L. A., Muir, D. C. G., Fellin, P., Rosenberg, B., Rovinski, F. Y., Kononov, E. Y., Pastukhov, B. V.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1998
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Tagish; Yukon
• Online Access: https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/21821/; https://doi.org/10.1016/S0269-7491(98)00074-8

Atmospheric measurements of organohalogen pesticides (OCs) have been made in both the Canadian and Russian Arctic. A full quality-controlled database of weekly samples is now available for the years 1992–94. Hexachlorobenzene (HCB) and the hexachlorocyclohexanes (HCHs) were the most predominant comp...