Publication details
Bestimmung des Ferntransports von persistenten organischen Spurenstoffen und der Umweltexposition mittels Modelluntersuchungen
| Title in English | Determination of long-range transport and environmental exposure of persistent organic pollutants by modelling |
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| Year of publication | 2006 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Umweltwissenschaften und Schadstofforschung |
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| Field | Environment influence on health |
| Keywords | Exposure modeling; grasshopper effect; long-range transport potential; multicompartmental modeling; persistent organic pollutants; persistence; POPs |
| Description | Many environmental pollutants are slowly degrading (persistent) and very mobile. They are semivolatile, i.e. they are partitioned between the environmental media of soil, water and air, and undergo long-range transport. The combined action of climate and substance properties determines the distributions and fate of these substances, among them as the persistent organic pollutants (POPs), other pesticides and industrial chemicals. Multicompartment chemistry transport models are under development in order to study environmental exposure on large spatial scales. These build on atmospheric and oceanic models. The investigation of transport and fate of some POPs on the global scale has emphasized the significance of historically explicit and georeferenced simulations for substance distributions, persistence and longrange transport potential. |
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