Atmospheric lifetime and global distribution and fate of DDT

• Authors: LAMMEL Gerhard; STEMMLER Irene; DVORSKÁ Alice; HOLOUBEK Ivan; JARKOVSKÝ Jiří; KLÁNOVÁ Jana; STOHL Andreas
• Year of publication: 2010
• Type: Conference abstract
• MU Faculty or unit: Faculty of Science
• Description: DDT sources in central, western and northern Europe are localized using monitoring data. Lifetimes at a high mountain site for p,p’-DDT, -DDE and -DDD are partly significantly lower than estimated. By global multicompartmental modelling of the atmospheric and oceanic transports the total global 'life cycle', 1950-2000, geographic and multicompartmental distributions and the significance of re-volatilisation for long-range transport ('grasshopping') are assessed.

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