Journal
ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT
Volume 43, Issue 28, Pages 4319-4326Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2009.06.003
Keywords
DDTs; Far East Asia; North Pacific ocean; Arctic
Funding
- National Science Foundation of China [40673074]
- Chinese Academy of Sciences [KZCX3-SW-121]
- Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry [GIGCX-08-07]
- GIGCAS [IS1089]
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During the 2003 Chinese Arctic Research Expedition (CHINARE 2003) from Bohai Sea to the high Arctic (37 degrees N-80 degrees N), air samples were collected and analyzed for DDTs. Sigma DDTs (sum of six congeners) ranged from 0.52 to 265 pg m(-3) with an average of 13.1 pg m(-3). Higher DDT concentrations were observed in Bohai Sea and near eastern Russia. The congener patterns were obviously different between the Far East Asia and the higher latitudinal regions that p,p'-DDT and o,p'-DDT were dominated in the former; while o,p'-DDT and o,p-DDE were dominated in the latter. The source contributions of technical DDT and dicofol type DDT were estimated. Results showed that technical DDT was the dominant source (>94%) which was fresher in the Far East Asia compared to the North Pacific Ocean and the Arctic. For dicofol type DDT, the estimated contribution was minor. The new o,p'-DDT observed should have relatively more contribution from dicofol type DDT in the North Pacific Ocean and the Arctic. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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