PMID- 27090411
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20180321
LR  - 20180321
IS  - 1879-1026 (Electronic)
IS  - 0048-9697 (Linking)
VI  - 572
DP  - 2016 Dec 1
TI  - Fate and transport of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in the River Thames 
      catchment - Insights from a coupled multimedia fate and hydrobiogeochemical 
      transport model.
PG  - 1461-1470
LID - S0048-9697(16)30455-7 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.03.029 [doi]
AB  - The fate of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in riverine environments is 
      strongly influenced by hydrology (including flooding) and fluxes of sediments and 
      organic carbon. Coupling multimedia fate models (MMFMs) and hydrobiogeochemical 
      transport models offers unique opportunities for understanding the environmental 
      behaviour of POPs. While MMFMs are widely used for simulating the fate and 
      transport of legacy and emerging pollutants, they use greatly simplified 
      representations of climate, hydrology and biogeochemical processes. Using 
      additional information about weather, river flows and water chemistry in 
      hydrobiogeochemical transport models can lead to new insights about POP behaviour 
      in rivers. As most riverine POPs are associated with suspended sediments (SS) or 
      dissolved organic carbon (DOC), coupled models simulating SS and DOC can provide 
      additional insights about POPs behaviour. Coupled simulations of river flow, DOC, 
      SS and POP dynamics offer the possibility of improved predictions of contaminant 
      fate and fluxes by leveraging the additional information in routine water quality 
      time series. Here, we present an application of a daily time step dynamic coupled 
      multimedia fate and hydrobiogeochemical transport model (The Integrated Catchment 
      (INCA) Contaminants model) to simulate the behaviour of selected PCB congeners in 
      the River Thames (UK). This is a follow-up to an earlier study where a Level III 
      fugacity model was used to simulate PCB behaviour in the Thames. While coupled 
      models are more complex to apply, we show that they can lead to much better 
      representation of POPs dynamics. The present study shows the importance of 
      accurate sediment and organic carbon simulations to successfully predict riverine 
      PCB transport. Furthermore, it demonstrates the important impact of short-term 
      weather variation on PCB movement through the environment. Specifically, it shows 
      the consequences of the severe flooding, which occurred in early 2014 on sediment 
      PCB concentrations in the River Thames.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2016. Published by Elsevier B.V.
FAU - Lu, Q
AU  - Lu Q
AD  - School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, 
      Oxford OX1 3QY, UK.
FAU - Futter, M N
AU  - Futter MN
AD  - Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, Swedish University of Agricultural 
      Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden. Electronic address: martyn.futter@slu.se.
FAU - Nizzetto, L
AU  - Nizzetto L
AD  - Norwegian Institute for Water Research, NO-0349 Oslo, Norway; Research Centre for 
      Toxic Compounds in the Environment, Masaryk University, 62500 Brno, Czech 
      Republic.
FAU - Bussi, G
AU  - Bussi G
AD  - School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, 
      Oxford OX1 3QY, UK.
FAU - Jurgens, M D
AU  - Jurgens MD
AD  - Centre of Ecology and Hydrology, Maclean Building, Benson Lane, Crowmarsh 
      Gifford, Wallingford, Oxfordshire OX10 8BB, UK.
FAU - Whitehead, P G
AU  - Whitehead PG
AD  - School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, 
      Oxford OX1 3QY, UK. Electronic address: paul.whitehead@ouce.ox.ac.uk.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20160416
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - Sci Total Environ
JT  - The Science of the total environment
JID - 0330500
RN  - 0 (Water Pollutants, Chemical)
RN  - DFC2HB4I0K (Polychlorinated Biphenyls)
SB  - IM
MH  - England
MH  - *Environmental Monitoring
MH  - Models, Theoretical
MH  - Polychlorinated Biphenyls/*analysis
MH  - Rivers/*chemistry
MH  - Water Pollutants, Chemical/*analysis
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - INCA
OT  - PCBs
OT  - River Thames
OT  - Sediment
EDAT- 2016/04/20 06:00
MHDA- 2018/03/22 06:00
CRDT- 2016/04/20 06:00
PHST- 2015/11/30 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2016/03/04 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2016/03/05 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2016/04/20 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2018/03/22 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2016/04/20 06:00 [entrez]
AID - S0048-9697(16)30455-7 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.03.029 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Sci Total Environ. 2016 Dec 1;572:1461-1470. doi: 
      10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.03.029. Epub 2016 Apr 16.