Locating POPs Sources with Tree Bark

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• 作者：Angela A. Peverly ; Amina Salamova ; Ronald A. Hites
• 刊名：Environmental Science & Technology
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：December 1, 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：49
• 期：23
• 页码：13743-13748
• 全文大小：510K
• ISSN：1520-5851

文摘

Locating sources of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) to the atmosphere can sometimes be difficult. We suggest that tree bark makes an excellent passive atmospheric sampler and that spatial analysis of tree bark POPs concentrations can often pinpoint their sources. This is an effective strategy because tree bark is lipophilic and readily adsorbs and collects POPs from the atmosphere. As such, tree bark is an ideal sampler to find POPs sources globally, regionally, or locally. This article summarizes some work on this subject with an emphasis on kriged maps and a simple power-law model, both of which have been used to locate sources. Three of the four examples led directly to the pollutant鈥檚 manufacturing plant.