PMID- 24880535
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20141010
LR  - 20181202
IS  - 1873-6424 (Electronic)
IS  - 0269-7491 (Linking)
VI  - 192
DP  - 2014 Sep
TI  - Atmospheric transport and accumulation of organochlorine compounds on the 
      southern slopes of the Himalayas, Nepal.
PG  - 44-51
LID - S0269-7491(14)00203-6 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.envpol.2014.05.015 [doi]
AB  - Studies have been devoted to the transport and accumulation of persistent organic 
      pollutants (POPs) in mountain environments. The Himalayas have the widest 
      altitude gradient of any mountain range, but few studies examining the 
      environmental behavior of POPs have been performed in the Himalayas. In this 
      study, air, soil, and leaf samples were collected along a transect on the 
      southern slope of the Himalayas, Nepal (altitude: 135-5100 m). Local emission 
      occurred in the lowlands, and POPs were transported by uplift along the slope. 
      During the atmospheric transport, the HCB proportion increased from the lowlands 
      (20%) to high elevation (>50%), whereas the proportions of DDTs decreased. The 
      largest residue of soil POPs appeared at an altitude of approximately 2500 m, and 
      may be related to absorption by vegetation and precipitation. The net deposition 
      tendencies at the air-soil surface indicated that the Himalayas may be a 'sink' 
      for DDTs and PCBs.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
FAU - Gong, Ping
AU  - Gong P
AD  - Key Laboratory of Tibetan Environmental Changes and Land Surface Process, 
      Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 
      2871, Beijing 100101, China.
FAU - Wang, Xiao-ping
AU  - Wang XP
AD  - Key Laboratory of Tibetan Environmental Changes and Land Surface Process, 
      Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 
      2871, Beijing 100101, China. Electronic address: wangxp@itpcas.ac.cn.
FAU - Li, Sheng-hai
AU  - Li SH
AD  - Key Laboratory of Tibetan Environmental Changes and Land Surface Process, 
      Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 
      2871, Beijing 100101, China.
FAU - Yu, Wu-sheng
AU  - Yu WS
AD  - Key Laboratory of Tibetan Environmental Changes and Land Surface Process, 
      Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 
      2871, Beijing 100101, China.
FAU - Li, Jiu-le
AU  - Li JL
AD  - Key Laboratory of Tibetan Environmental Changes and Land Surface Process, 
      Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 
      2871, Beijing 100101, China.
FAU - Kattel, Dambaru Ballab
AU  - Kattel DB
AD  - Key Laboratory of Tibetan Environmental Changes and Land Surface Process, 
      Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 
      2871, Beijing 100101, China; Department of Meteorology, COMSATS Institute of 
      Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan.
FAU - Wang, Wei-cai
AU  - Wang WC
AD  - Key Laboratory of Tibetan Environmental Changes and Land Surface Process, 
      Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 
      2871, Beijing 100101, China.
FAU - Devkota, Lochan Prasad
AU  - Devkota LP
AD  - Central Department of Hydrology and Meteorology, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu 
      44618, Nepal.
FAU - Yao, Tan-dong
AU  - Yao TD
AD  - Key Laboratory of Tibetan Environmental Changes and Land Surface Process, 
      Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 
      2871, Beijing 100101, China.
FAU - Joswiak, Daniel R
AU  - Joswiak DR
AD  - Key Laboratory of Tibetan Environmental Changes and Land Surface Process, 
      Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 
      2871, Beijing 100101, China.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20140602
PL  - England
TA  - Environ Pollut
JT  - Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)
JID - 8804476
RN  - 0 (Air Pollutants)
RN  - 0 (Hazardous Substances)
RN  - 0 (Hydrocarbons, Chlorinated)
RN  - 0 (Soil)
RN  - 0 (Soil Pollutants)
RN  - DFC2HB4I0K (Polychlorinated Biphenyls)
SB  - IM
MH  - Air
MH  - Air Pollutants/*analysis
MH  - Altitude
MH  - Atmosphere/chemistry
MH  - *Environmental Monitoring
MH  - Hazardous Substances/analysis
MH  - Hydrocarbons, Chlorinated/*analysis
MH  - Nepal
MH  - Plant Leaves/chemistry
MH  - Polychlorinated Biphenyls/analysis
MH  - Soil/chemistry
MH  - Soil Pollutants/analysis
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Air-soil exchange
OT  - Altitudinal distribution
OT  - Cold-trapping
OT  - Hierarchical clustering analysis (HCA)
OT  - Persistent organic pollutants (POPs)
EDAT- 2014/06/02 06:00
MHDA- 2014/10/11 06:00
CRDT- 2014/06/02 06:00
PHST- 2014/01/29 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2014/05/02 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2014/05/04 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2014/06/02 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2014/06/02 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2014/10/11 06:00 [medline]
AID - S0269-7491(14)00203-6 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.envpol.2014.05.015 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Environ Pollut. 2014 Sep;192:44-51. doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2014.05.015. Epub 2014 
      Jun 2.