Concentrations, Fluxes, and Residence Time of PBDEs Across the Tropical Atlantic Ocean

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Authors

LOHMANN Rainer KLÁNOVÁ Jana KUKUČKA Petr YONIS Shifra BOLLINGER Kevyn

Year of publication 2013
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE andTECHNOLOGY
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Faculty of Science

Citation
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/es403494b
Field Air pollution and control
Keywords POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHERS; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; POLYCHLORINATED-BIPHENYLS; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTIES; PERFLUORINATED ACIDS; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; SURFACE SEAWATER; DRY DEPOSITION; AIR-WATER; PCBS
Description Little is known about the fate of polybrominated diphenylethers (PBDEs) across the Oceans. Air and water were sampled using both active and passive polyethylene samplers on an east-west transect across the tropical Atlantic Ocean in 2009 and analyzed for PBDEs. Typical particle-bound concentrations of PBDEs in the surface water were low, at <1 pg L-1. Truly dissolved concentrations from passive samplers were similar to 40.5 pg L-1 for BDE 47 and around 0.1 pg L-1 for BDEs 28, 99, and 100 (results from active samples were compromised). In the atmosphere, particle-bound BDE 209 dominated overall concentrations (median 1.2 pg m(-3)), followed by BDE 99 (0.13 pg m(-3)). Gas-phase concentrations based on passive samplers were 1-8 pg m(-3) for BDE 47 and <= 4 pg m(-3) for BDE 99. Net air-water exchange gradients strongly favored gas-phase deposition of PBDEs into the water. Net gas-phase deposition fluxes ranged from tens of pg m(-2) day(-1) for BDEs 28 and 85 to around 1 ng m(-2) day(-1) for BDE 47, 99, and 209. Settling fluxes of particle-bound PBDEs in the atmosphere and surface water were around 50 pg m(-2) day(-1) for BDE 47 and <10 pg m(-2) day(-1) for the other congeners.
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