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Occurrence and air-sea exchange of phthalates in the Arctic.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Xie, Zhiyong Ebinghaus, Ralf Temme, Christian Lohmann, Rainer Caba, Armando Ruck, Wolfgang K. L. |
| Copyright Year | 2007 |
| Abstract | Air and seawater samples were taken simultaneously to investigate the distribution and air-sea gas exchange of phthalates in the Arctic onboard the German Research Ship FS Polarstern. Samples were collected on expeditions ARK XX1&2 from the North Sea to the high Arctic (60 degrees N-85 degrees N) in the summer of 2004. The concentration of sigma6 phthalates (dimethyl phthalate (DMP), diethyl phthalate (DEP), di-i-butyl phthalate (DiBP), di-n-butyl phthalate (DnBP), butylbenzyl phthalate (BBP), and diethylhexyl phthalate (DEHP)) ranged from 30 to 5030 pg L(-1) in the aqueous dissolved phase and from 1110 to 3090 pg m(-3) in the atmospheric gas phase. A decreasing latitudinal trend was present in the seawater and to a lesser degree in the atmosphere from the Norwegian coast to the high Arctic. Overall, deposition dominated the air-sea gas exchange for DEHP, while volatilization from seawater took place in the near-coast environment. The estimated net gas deposition of DEHP was 5, 30, and 190 t year(-1) for the Norwegian Sea, the Greenland Sea, and the Arctic, respectively. This suggests that atmospheric transport and deposition of phthalates is a significant process for their occurrence in the remote Atlantic and Arctic Ocean. |
| Starting Page | 210 |
| Ending Page | 215 |
| Page Count | 6 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://web.uri.edu/lohmannlab/files/Xie-et-al.-phthalates-EST07.pdf |
| PubMed reference number | 17695896v1 |
| Volume Number | 41 |
| Issue Number | 13 |
| Journal | Environmental science & technology |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | 4-boronic acid benzophenone Diabetes Insipidus Dibutyl Phthalate Diethylhexyl Phthalate Ephrin Type-B Receptor 1, human Expeditions Occur (action) Volatilization butylbenzyl phthalate defecation rhythm diethyl phthalate dimethyl phthalate dinoseb phthalates |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |