Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) in air and seawater of the Atlantic Ocean : sources, trends and processes.
Air and seawater samples were collected on board the RV Polarstern during a cruise from Bremerhaven, Germany to Cape Town, South Africa from October–November 2005. Broad latitudinal trends were observed with the lowest Σ27PCB air concentration (10 pg m−3) in the South Atlantic and the highest (1000...
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ftulancaster:oai:eprints.lancs.ac.uk:28063 2023-08-27T04:10:56+02:00 Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) in air and seawater of the Atlantic Ocean : sources, trends and processes. Gioia, Rosalinda Nizzetto, Luca Lohmann, Rainer Dachs, Jordi Temme, Christian Jones, Kevin C. 2008-03-01 https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/28063/ https://doi.org/10.1021/es071432d unknown Gioia, Rosalinda and Nizzetto, Luca and Lohmann, Rainer and Dachs, Jordi and Temme, Christian and Jones, Kevin C. (2008) Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) in air and seawater of the Atlantic Ocean : sources, trends and processes. Environmental Science and Technology, 42 (5). pp. 1416-1422. ISSN 0013-936X Journal Article PeerReviewed 2008 ftulancaster https://doi.org/10.1021/es071432d 2023-08-03T22:19:01Z Air and seawater samples were collected on board the RV Polarstern during a cruise from Bremerhaven, Germany to Cape Town, South Africa from October–November 2005. Broad latitudinal trends were observed with the lowest Σ27PCB air concentration (10 pg m−3) in the South Atlantic and the highest (1000 pg m−3) off the west coast of Africa. ΣICESPCBs ranged from 3.7 to 220 pg m−3 in air samples and from 0.071 to 1.7 pg L−1 in the dissolved phase seawater samples. Comparison with other data from cruises in the Atlantic Ocean since 1990 indicate little change in air concentrations over the remote open ocean. The relationship of gas-phase partial pressure with temperature was examined using the Clausius-Clapeyron equation; significant temperature dependencies were found for all PCBs over the South Atlantic, indicative of close air–water coupling. There was no temperature dependence for atmospheric PCBs over the North Atlantic, where concentrations were controlled by advection of contaminated air masses. Due to large uncertainties in the Henry’s Law Constant (HLC), fugacity fractions and air–water exchange fluxes were estimated using different HLCs reported in the literature. These suggest that conditions are close to air–water equilibrium for most of the ocean, but net deposition is dominating over volatilization in parts of the transect. Generally, the tri- and tetrachlorinated homologues dominated the total flux (>70%). Total PCB fluxes (28, 52, 118, 138, and 153) ranged from −7 to 0.02 ng m−2 day –1. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic Lancaster University: Lancaster Eprints Environmental Science & Technology 42 5 1416 1422 |
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Air and seawater samples were collected on board the RV Polarstern during a cruise from Bremerhaven, Germany to Cape Town, South Africa from October–November 2005. Broad latitudinal trends were observed with the lowest Σ27PCB air concentration (10 pg m−3) in the South Atlantic and the highest (1000 pg m−3) off the west coast of Africa. ΣICESPCBs ranged from 3.7 to 220 pg m−3 in air samples and from 0.071 to 1.7 pg L−1 in the dissolved phase seawater samples. Comparison with other data from cruises in the Atlantic Ocean since 1990 indicate little change in air concentrations over the remote open ocean. The relationship of gas-phase partial pressure with temperature was examined using the Clausius-Clapeyron equation; significant temperature dependencies were found for all PCBs over the South Atlantic, indicative of close air–water coupling. There was no temperature dependence for atmospheric PCBs over the North Atlantic, where concentrations were controlled by advection of contaminated air masses. Due to large uncertainties in the Henry’s Law Constant (HLC), fugacity fractions and air–water exchange fluxes were estimated using different HLCs reported in the literature. These suggest that conditions are close to air–water equilibrium for most of the ocean, but net deposition is dominating over volatilization in parts of the transect. Generally, the tri- and tetrachlorinated homologues dominated the total flux (>70%). Total PCB fluxes (28, 52, 118, 138, and 153) ranged from −7 to 0.02 ng m−2 day –1. |
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Gioia, Rosalinda Nizzetto, Luca Lohmann, Rainer Dachs, Jordi Temme, Christian Jones, Kevin C. Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) in air and seawater of the Atlantic Ocean : sources, trends and processes. |
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Gioia, Rosalinda Nizzetto, Luca Lohmann, Rainer Dachs, Jordi Temme, Christian Jones, Kevin C. |
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Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) in air and seawater of the Atlantic Ocean : sources, trends and processes. |
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Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) in air and seawater of the Atlantic Ocean : sources, trends and processes. |
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Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) in air and seawater of the Atlantic Ocean : sources, trends and processes. |
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Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) in air and seawater of the Atlantic Ocean : sources, trends and processes. |
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Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) in air and seawater of the Atlantic Ocean : sources, trends and processes. |
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polychlorinated biphenyls (pcbs) in air and seawater of the atlantic ocean : sources, trends and processes. |
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Gioia, Rosalinda and Nizzetto, Luca and Lohmann, Rainer and Dachs, Jordi and Temme, Christian and Jones, Kevin C. (2008) Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) in air and seawater of the Atlantic Ocean : sources, trends and processes. Environmental Science and Technology, 42 (5). pp. 1416-1422. ISSN 0013-936X |
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