Articles | Volume 18, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-1325-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-1325-2018
Research article
 | 
01 Feb 2018
Research article |  | 01 Feb 2018

Atmospheric organochlorine pesticides and polychlorinated biphenyls in urban areas of Nepal: spatial variation, sources, temporal trends, and long-range transport potential

Balram Pokhrel, Ping Gong, Xiaoping Wang, Sanjay Nath Khanal, Jiao Ren, Chuanfei Wang, Shaopeng Gao, and Tandong Yao

Download

Interactive discussion

Status: closed
Status: closed
AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment
Printer-friendly Version - Printer-friendly version Supplement - Supplement

Peer-review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision
AR by Xiaoping Wang on behalf of the Authors (31 Dec 2017)  Author's response   Manuscript 
ED: Publish as is (02 Jan 2018) by Paul Monks
AR by Xiaoping Wang on behalf of the Authors (02 Jan 2018)
Download
Short summary
As Nepal is a tropical country close to the Himalayas, it is essential to investigate concentration levels and long-range transport potential of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in its cities to assess whether these pollutants can contaminate the high Himalaya. We found high concentration and long travel distance (> 1000 km) of dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane and hexachlorocyclohexane in the atmosphere of Nepalese cities, suggesting Nepal can be an important regional source region for POPs.
Altmetrics
Final-revised paper
Preprint