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Atmospheric Transport and Deposition of Pesticides: An Assessment of Current Knowledge

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The current knowledge on atmospheric transport and deposition of pesticides is reviewed and discussed by a working group of experts during the Workshop on Fate of pesticides in the atmosphere; implications for risk assessment, held in Driebergen, the Netherlands, 22-24 April, 1998. In general there is a shortage of measurement data to evaluate the deposition and re-emission processes. It was concluded that the mechanisms of transport and dispersion of pesticides can be described similarly to those for other air pollution components and these mechanisms are rather well-known. Large uncertainties are present in the exchange processes at the interface between air and soil/water/vegetation. In all process descriptions the uncertainty in the physicochemical properties play an important role. Particularly those in the vapour pressure, Henry's law constant and its temperature dependency. More accurate data on physicochemical properties and particularly the temperature dependencies is needed.

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  1. National Institute of Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), P. O. Box 1, NL-3720 BA, Bilthoven, The Netherlands

    W. Addo J. van Pul & J.(Hans) A. van Jaarsveld

  2. Atmospheric Environment Service, 4905 Dufferin, St. Downsview, Ontario, M3H 5T4, Canada

    Terry F. Bidleman

  3. Swedish Environmental Research Institute, P.O. Box 47086, S-40258, Göteborg, Sweden

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  7. Institute of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YQ, United Kingdom

    Kevin C. Jones

  8. Health Council of the Netherlands, P.O. Box 16052, NL-2500 BB, The Hague, The Netherlands

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van Pul, W.A.J., Bidleman, T.F., Brorström-Lundén, E. et al. Atmospheric Transport and Deposition of Pesticides: An Assessment of Current Knowledge. Water, Air, & Soil Pollution 115, 245–256 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005238430531

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