Atmospheric processes of organic pollutants over a remote lake on the central Tibetan Plateau: implications for regional cycling

Ren, Jiao; Wang, Xiaoping; Wang, Chuanfei; Gong, Ping; Yao, Tandong

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-1401-2017

Articles | Volume 17, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-1401-2017

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-1401-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 17, issue 2

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31 Jan 2017

Research article |

| 31 Jan 2017

Atmospheric processes of organic pollutants over a remote lake on the central Tibetan Plateau: implications for regional cycling

Jiao Ren, Xiaoping Wang, Chuanfei Wang, Ping Gong, and Tandong Yao

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RC1: 'review', Terry Bidleman, 07 Dec 2016
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Do the water bodies in the Tibetan Plateau (TP) act as a sink or secondary source of organic pollutants (OPs)? To answer this question, atmospheric processes of OPs over a large lake on the TP were quantified. We found that the lake was a net sink of hexachlorocyclohexanes (HCHs) and most polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), but it turned into a secondary source of phenanthrene, coinciding with the melting of lake ice.