PMID- 19212583
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20090428
LR  - 20171116
IS  - 1464-0333 (Electronic)
IS  - 1464-0325 (Linking)
VI  - 11
IP  - 2
DP  - 2009 Feb
TI  - Application of an unsteady state environmental distribution model to a decadal 
      time series of PAH concentrations in Central Europe.
PG  - 269-76
LID - 10.1039/b815719g [doi]
AB  - To explain observed decadal trends in concentrations of polycyclic aromatic 
      hydrocarbons (PAHs) in soil at the Kosetice observatory, Czech Republic, an 
      environmental distribution model for persistent organic pollutants (POPs) based 
      on the fugacity approach was developed. Weekly air concentrations were used as 
      input data for the unsteady state model and concentrations in soil were 
      calculated. In general, agreement between measured and predicted soil 
      concentrations of PAHs was observed. Temporal trends in PAH concentrations in 
      Kosetice can be related to changes in residential heating. Predicted soil 
      concentrations of volatile PAHs namely acenaphthylene, fluorene and phenanthrene 
      are in better correspondence with observed data than concentrations of less 
      volatile PAHs i.e. dibenzo(ah)anthracene, benzo(a)pyrene and benzo(ghi)perylene. 
      These discrepancies between model results and field data are probably a result of 
      a simplified description of degradation and aging processes in soil. The results 
      from our dynamic multicompartmental model confirmed our hypothesis about unsteady 
      state conditions between the air and soil, and suggested that a commonly used 
      simple steady state model should be only applied as a predictive tool in a small 
      region when local sources and sinks are well described.
FAU - Komprda, Jiri
AU  - Komprda J
AD  - Research Centre for Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology RECETOX, Faculty of 
      Science, Masaryk University, Kamenice 126/3, 625 00 Brno, Czech Republic.
FAU - Kubosova, Klara
AU  - Kubosova K
FAU - Dvorska, Alice
AU  - Dvorska A
FAU - Scheringer, Martin
AU  - Scheringer M
FAU - Klanova, Jana
AU  - Klanova J
FAU - Holoubek, Ivan
AU  - Holoubek I
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20090109
PL  - England
TA  - J Environ Monit
JT  - Journal of environmental monitoring : JEM
JID - 100968688
RN  - 0 (Air Pollutants)
RN  - 0 (Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons)
RN  - 0 (Soil)
RN  - 0 (Soil Pollutants)
SB  - IM
MH  - Air/*analysis
MH  - Air Pollutants/analysis
MH  - Czech Republic
MH  - *Models, Biological
MH  - Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons/*analysis
MH  - Soil/*analysis
MH  - Soil Pollutants/analysis
MH  - Time Factors
MH  - Volatilization
EDAT- 2009/02/13 09:00
MHDA- 2009/04/29 09:00
CRDT- 2009/02/13 09:00
PHST- 2009/02/13 09:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2009/02/13 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2009/04/29 09:00 [medline]
AID - 10.1039/b815719g [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Environ Monit. 2009 Feb;11(2):269-76. doi: 10.1039/b815719g. Epub 2009 Jan 9.