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Date:10/16/2008
lutants travel, they move in stages through a repeated process of volatilization and deposition. To learn more about this "grasshopper effect," Jurado and Dachs focus on a class of persistent organic pollutants called polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB). Through studies of the grasshopper effect's seasonal variability and long-range atmospheric transport potentials, the authors find that the number of hops taken by a chemical over the oceans is driven by seasonal biogeochemical processes occurring in the water column. For example, the transport of PCBs to the remote Arctic is maximized during seasons of low primary productivity. Such studies have important implications for understanding the distribution and fractionation processes of persistent organic pollutants on a global scale.
Title: Seasonality in the "grasshopping" and atmospheric residence times of persistent organic pollutants over the oceans
Authors: Elena Jurado and Jordi Dachs: Department of Environmental Chemistry, IIQAB-SCIS, Barcelona, Spain.
Source: Geophysical Research Letters (GRL) paper 10.1029/2008GL034698, 2008; http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2008GL034698
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