%0 journal article
%@ 0013-936X
%A Xie, Z.,Ebinghaus, R.,Temme, C.,Lohmann, R.,Caba, A.,Ruck, W.

%D 2007
%J Environmental Science and Technology
%N 13
%P 4555-4560 
%R doi:10.1021/es0630240
%T Occurrence and Air-Sea Exchange of Phthalates in the Arctic
%U https://doi.org/10.1021/es0630240
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%X Air and seawater samples were taken simultaneously to investigate the distribution and air-sea gas exchange of phthalates in the Arctic onboard the German Research Ship FS Polarstern. Samples were collected on expeditions ARK XX1&2 from the North Sea to the high Arctic (60° N-85° N) in the summer of 2004. The concentration of ª6,phthalates (dimethyl phthalate (DMP), diethyl phthalate (DEP), di-i-butyl phthalate (DiBP), di-n-butyl phthalate (DnBP), butylbenzyl phthalate (BBP), and diethylhexyl phthalate (DEHP)) ranged from 30 to 5030 pg L-1 in the aqueous,dissolved phase and from 1110 to 3090 pg m-3 in the atmospheric gas phase. A decreasing latitudinal trend,was present in the seawater and to a lesser degree in the atmosphere from the Norwegian coast to the high,Arctic. Overall, deposition dominated the air-sea gas exchange for DEHP, while volatilization from seawater took place in the near-coast environment. The estimated net,gas deposition of DEHP was 5, 30, and 190 t year-1 for the Norwegian Sea, the Greenland Sea, and the Arctic, respectively. This suggests that atmospheric transport and deposition of phthalates is a significant process for their occurrence in the remote Atlantic and Arctic Ocean.