PMID- 26899661
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20161213
LR  - 20181202
IS  - 1001-0742 (Print)
IS  - 1001-0742 (Linking)
VI  - 39
DP  - 2016 Jan
TI  - Urban and rural transport of semivolatile organic compounds at regional scale: A 
      multimedia model approach.
PG  - 228-241
LID - S1001-0742(15)00471-4 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.jes.2015.12.005 [doi]
AB  - Urban areas are generally regarded as major sources of some semivolatile organic 
      compounds and other persistent organic pollutants (POPs) to the surrounding 
      regions. Huge differences in contaminant emissions between urban and rural areas 
      directly affect their fate in environmental media. Little is known about POPs 
      behavior between urban and rural areas at a regional scale. A spatially resolved 
      Berkeley-Trent-Urban-Rural Fate Model (BETR-UR) was designed by coupling land 
      cover information to simulate the transport of POPs between urban and rural 
      areas, and the Bohai Rim was used as a case study to estimate Polycyclic Aromatic 
      Hydrocarbon (PAH) fate. The processes of contaminant fate including emission, 
      inter-compartmental transfer, advection and degradation in urban and rural areas 
      were simulated in the model. Simulated PAH concentrations in environmental media 
      of urban and rural areas were very close to measured values. The model accuracy 
      was highly improved, with the average absolute relative error for PAH 
      concentrations reduced from 37% to 3% compared with unimproved model results. PAH 
      concentrations in urban soil and air were considerably higher than those in rural 
      areas. Sensitivity analysis showed temperature was the most influential parameter 
      for Phen rather than for Bap, whose fate was more influenced by emission rate, 
      compartment dimension, transport velocity and chemical persistence. Uncertainty 
      analysis indicated modeled results in urban media had higher uncertainty than 
      those in rural areas due to larger variations of emissions in urban areas. The 
      differences in urban and rural areas provided us with valuable guidance on policy 
      setting for urban-rural POP control.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2015. Published by Elsevier B.V.
FAU - Song, Shuai
AU  - Song S
AD  - State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for 
      Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China.
FAU - Su, Chao
AU  - Su C
AD  - State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for 
      Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China.
FAU - Lu, Yonglong
AU  - Lu Y
AD  - State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for 
      Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China. 
      Electronic address: yllu@rcees.ac.cn.
FAU - Wang, Tieyu
AU  - Wang T
AD  - State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for 
      Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China.
FAU - Zhang, Yueqing
AU  - Zhang Y
AD  - State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for 
      Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China.
FAU - Liu, Shijie
AU  - Liu S
AD  - State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for 
      Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20160106
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - J Environ Sci (China)
JT  - Journal of environmental sciences (China)
JID - 100967627
RN  - 0 (Environmental Pollutants)
RN  - 0 (Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons)
RN  - 0 (Volatile Organic Compounds)
SB  - IM
MH  - *Cities
MH  - Environmental Pollutants/*analysis/*chemistry
MH  - *Models, Theoretical
MH  - Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons/analysis/chemistry
MH  - *Rural Population
MH  - Uncertainty
MH  - Volatile Organic Compounds/*analysis/*chemistry
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Land use
OT  - Multimedia model
OT  - PAH fate
OT  - Regional scale
EDAT- 2016/02/24 06:00
MHDA- 2016/12/15 06:00
CRDT- 2016/02/23 06:00
PHST- 2015/08/09 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2015/12/03 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2015/12/15 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2016/02/23 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2016/02/24 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2016/12/15 06:00 [medline]
AID - S1001-0742(15)00471-4 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.jes.2015.12.005 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Environ Sci (China). 2016 Jan;39:228-241. doi: 10.1016/j.jes.2015.12.005. Epub 
      2016 Jan 6.