Multimedia fate and human intake modeling: spatial versus nonspatial insights for chemical emissions in Western Europe

DW Pennington, M Margni, C Ammann… - … science & technology, 2005 - ACS Publications
Multimedia fate and multipathway human exposure models are widely adopted in
assessments of toxicological risks of chemical emissions at the regional scale. This paper …

TRACKING MULTIPLE PATHWAYS OF HUMAN EXPOSURE TO PERSISTENT MULTIMEDIA POLLUTANTS: Regional, Continental, and Global-Scale Models

TE McKone, M MacLeod - Annual Review of Environment and …, 2003 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Widespread observations of organic pollutant compounds in vegetation, soil,
animals, and human tissue have motivated research on more accurate characterizations of …

BETR North America: a regionally segmented multimedia contaminant fate model for North America

M MacLeod, DG Woodfine, D Mackay… - … Science and Pollution …, 2001 - Springer
Abstract We present the Berkeley-Trent North American contaminant fate model (BETR
North America), a regionally segmented multimedia contaminant fate model based on the …

European atmospheric emissions of selected persistent organic pollutants, 1970–1995

JM Pacyna, K Breivik, J Münch, J Fudala - Atmospheric Environment, 2003 - Elsevier
For the first time, a European historical usage and emission inventory for DDT, HCB, PAH (B
[a] P) and dioxins and furans have been approached. This paper presents the estimation …

Empirical and modeling evidence of the long-range atmospheric transport of decabromodiphenyl ether

K Breivik, F Wania, DCG Muir, M Alaee… - … science & technology, 2006 - ACS Publications
Understanding of the long-range atmospheric transport (LRT) behavior of
decabromodiphenyl ether (BDE-209) is still limited. Most existing model-based approaches …

Risk and regulatory hazard-based toxicological effect indicators in life-cycle assessment (LCA)

DW Pennington, M Margni, J Payet… - Human and Ecological …, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
In life-cycle assessment (LCA), it is desirable to compare quantities of chemicals released
into the environment in terms of the risk and consequences of toxicological effects. Many …

Temperature dependence of the characteristic travel distance

A Beyer, F Wania, T Gouin, D Mackay… - … science & technology, 2003 - ACS Publications
The effect of temperature variation on the environmental fate of organic chemicals can be
evaluated in steady-state multimedia box models by expressing chemical partitioning data …

A fate and transport ocean model for persistent organic pollutants and its application to the North Sea

T Ilyina, T Pohlmann, G Lammel… - Journal of Marine Systems, 2006 - Elsevier
An ocean model (FANTOM) has been developed to investigate the fate of selected
persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in the North Sea. The main focus of the model is on …

[HTML][HTML] In situ benthic flow-through chambers to determine sediment-to-water fluxes of legacy hydrophobic organic contaminants

L Mustajärvi, E Eek, G Cornelissen… - Environmental …, 2017 - Elsevier
Contaminated sediment can release hydrophobic organic contaminants (HOCs) and thereby
act as a secondary source of primarily legacy hazardous substances to the water column …

A multimedia fate model to evaluate the fate of PAHs in Songhua River, China

C Wang, Y Feng, Q Sun, S Zhao, P Gao, BL Li - Environmental Pollution, 2012 - Elsevier
A multimedia fate model coupling dynamic water flow with a level IV fugacity model has
been developed and applied to simulate the temporal and spatial fate of Polycyclic Aromatic …