PMID- 26843028
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20170111
LR  - 20181202
IS  - 1873-6424 (Electronic)
IS  - 0269-7491 (Linking)
VI  - 217
DP  - 2016 Oct
TI  - The TOMPs ambient air monitoring network - Continuous data on UK air quality for 
      over 20 years.
PG  - 42-51
LID - S0269-7491(16)30033-1 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.envpol.2016.01.033 [doi]
AB  - Long-term air monitoring datasets are needed for persistent organic pollutants 
      (POPs) to assess the effectiveness of source abatement measures and the factors 
      controlling ambient levels. The Toxic Organic Micro Pollutants (TOMPs) Network, 
      which has operated since 1991, collects ambient air samples at six sites across 
      England and Scotland, using high-volume active air samplers. The network provides 
      long-term ambient air trend data for a range of POPs at both urban and rural 
      locations. Data from the network provides the UK Government, regulators and 
      researchers with valuable information on emission/source controls and on the 
      effectiveness of international chemicals regulation such as the Stockholm 
      Convention and UN/ECE Protocol on POPs. The target chemicals of TOMPs have been 
      polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), 
      polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs), polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDFs), 
      and, since 2010, polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs). The continuous 
      monitoring of these compounds demonstrates the constant decline in UK air 
      concentrations over the last two decades, with average clearance rates for 
      PCDD/Fs in urban locations of 5.1 years and for PCBs across all sites 6.6 years. 
      No significant declines in rural locations for PCDD/Fs have been observed. There 
      is a strong observable link between the declining ambient air concentrations and 
      the emission reductions estimated in the annually produced National Atmospheric 
      Emission Inventory (NAEI) dataset. These findings clearly demonstrate the unique 
      strengths of long-term consistent datasets for the evaluation of the success of 
      chemical regulation and control.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
FAU - Graf, Carola
AU  - Graf C
AD  - Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, UK.
FAU - Katsoyiannis, Athanasios
AU  - Katsoyiannis A
AD  - Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, UK.
FAU - Jones, Kevin C
AU  - Jones KC
AD  - Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, UK.
FAU - Sweetman, Andrew J
AU  - Sweetman AJ
AD  - Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, UK. Electronic address: 
      a.sweetman@lancaster.ac.uk.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20160201
PL  - England
TA  - Environ Pollut
JT  - Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)
JID - 8804476
RN  - 0 (Air Pollutants)
RN  - 0 (Dibenzofurans, Polychlorinated)
RN  - 0 (Halogenated Diphenyl Ethers)
RN  - 0 (Polychlorinated Dibenzodioxins)
RN  - 0 (Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons)
RN  - DFC2HB4I0K (Polychlorinated Biphenyls)
SB  - IM
MH  - Air Pollutants/*analysis
MH  - Atmosphere/*chemistry
MH  - Dibenzofurans, Polychlorinated/analysis
MH  - England
MH  - *Environmental Monitoring
MH  - Halogenated Diphenyl Ethers/analysis
MH  - Polychlorinated Biphenyls/analysis
MH  - Polychlorinated Dibenzodioxins/analysis
MH  - Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons/analysis
MH  - Scotland
MH  - Time Factors
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Air monitoring
OT  - Long-term
OT  - POPs
OT  - Stockholm Convention
OT  - Time trends
EDAT- 2016/02/05 06:00
MHDA- 2017/01/12 06:00
CRDT- 2016/02/05 06:00
PHST- 2015/09/10 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2016/01/11 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2016/01/13 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2016/02/05 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2016/02/05 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2017/01/12 06:00 [medline]
AID - S0269-7491(16)30033-1 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.envpol.2016.01.033 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Environ Pollut. 2016 Oct;217:42-51. doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2016.01.033. Epub 2016 
      Feb 1.