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Atmospheric lifetime and global distribution and fate of DDT

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Original title:Atmospheric lifetime and global distribution and fate of DDT
Authors:Gerhard Lammel, Irene Stemmler, Alice Dvorská, Ivan Holoubek, Jiří Jarkovský, Jana Klánová, Andreas Stohl
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Citation:LAMMEL, Gerhard - STEMMLER, Irene - DVORSKÁ, Alice - HOLOUBEK, Ivan - JARKOVSKÝ, Jiří - KLÁNOVÁ, Jana - STOHL, Andreas. Atmospheric lifetime and global distribution and fate of DDT. 2010.
Original language:English
Field:Air pollution and control
Type:Conference abstract

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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