Persistent Pollution – Past, Present and Future

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Introduction, History and Reconstruction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. A History of the Causes and Consequences of Air Pollution

      • Peter Brimblecombe

      Pages 3-11

   3. Modelling Air Pollution in Sixteenth Century Lüneburg

      • Peter Brimblecombe

      Pages 13-17

   4. Heavy Metals in Antarctic and Greenland Snow and Ice Cores: Man Induced Changes During the Last Millennia and Natural Variations During the Last Climatic Cycles

      • Claude Boutron, Carlo Barbante, Sungmin Hong, Kevin Rosman, Michael Bolshov, Freddy Adams et al.

      Pages 19-46

3. Emissions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 47-47

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   2. Environmental Emissions of Selected Persistent Organic Pollutants

      • Jozef Pacyna

      Pages 49-56

   3. Curbing the Omnipresence of Lead in the European Environment Since the 1970s: A Successful Example of Efficient Einvironmental Policy

      • Hans von Storch

      Pages 57-67

4. Persistant Pollutions: A Closer Look

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 69-69

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   2. A Historical Record of Heavy Metal Pollution in Alpine Snow and Ice

      • Carlo Barbante, Jacopo Gabrieli, Paolo Gabrielli, Paul Vallelonga, Giulio Cozzi, Clara Turetta et al.

      Pages 71-94

   3. METAALCIUS: A Whole Ecosystem Experiment to Study the Environmental Fate of Mercury

      • Holger Hintelmann

      Pages 95-109

   4. Sources, Transport and Fate of Organic Pollutants in the Oceanic Environment

      • Rosalinda Gioia, Jordi Dachs, Luca Nizzetto, Naiara Berrojalbiz, Cristóbal Galbán, Sabino Del Vento et al.

      Pages 111-139

   5. Chemistry of POPs in the Atmosphere

      • Wolf-Ulrich Palm

      Pages 141-175

   6. Determination of Atmospheric Volatile and Semi-volatile Compounds

      • Ravindra Khaiwal

      Pages 177-205

   7. Polyfluorinated Compounds in the Coastal and Marine Atmosphere

      • Annika Jahnke, Ralf Ebinghaus

      Pages 207-223

5. Transport and Modelling

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 225-225

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   2. Chemical Transport Modelling

      • Armin Aulinger

      Pages 227-244

   3. Assessment of Source–Receptor Relations by Inverse Modelling and Chemical Data Assimilation

      • Hendrik Elbern, Achim Strunk, Elmar Friese, Lars Nieradzik

      Pages 245-265

   4. Aerosols as Transport Vehicles of Persistent Pollutants

      • Volker Matthias

      Pages 267-286

   5. The Global Distribution of Aerosols

      • Hartmut Graßl

      Pages 287-298

This book evolved from the 5th School of Environmental Research entitled

„Persistent Pollution – Past, Present and Future", which has set a focus on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), heavy metals and aerosols.

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reconstruction of past changes based on the scientific analysis of natural archives such as ice cores and peat deposits,

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evaluation of the present environmental state by the integration of measurements and modelling and the establishment of cause-effect-patterns,

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assessment of possible environmental future scenarios including emission and climate change perspectives.

• Aerosols
• Environmental Management
• Heavy Metal
• Modelling
• Persistent Organic Pollutants
• air pollution and air quality

• , Environmental Chemistry, GKSS School of Environmental Research, Geesthacht, Germany

  Markus Quante

• , Institute for Coastal Research, GKSS Research Centre Geesthacht, Geesthacht, Germany

  Ralf Ebinghaus, Götz Flöser

Markus Quante is a senior research scientist and deputy head of the Department of Environmental Chemistry at the Institute of Coastal Research of the Helmholz Centre Geesthacht. He is professor for environmental sciences and climate physics at the University of Lüneburg / Germany. He is an expert in airborne turbulence measurements and cloud remote sensing and was involved in organizing and managing international cloud research campaigns. Markus Quante is member of the international science team, advising the CloudSat research satellite mission of NASA and Colorado State University. Currently Markus Quante is working in the field of chemistry transport modelling and coordinates an international initiative conducting a climate change assessment for the North Sea region. Among other services he is an active member of the Advisory Committee for the “European Research Course on Atmospheres” of the University Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France.

Ralf Ebinghaus is an analytical and environmental chemist and head of the Department for Environmental Chemistry of the Institute for Coastal Research of the Helmholz Centre in Geesthacht near Hamburg. He is also Professor (h.c.) at the Faculty of Environmental Science at Leuphana University of Lüneburg. His research fields include transport, deposition, and air/sea-gas exchange of atmospheric trace constituents, such as mercury and persistent organic pollutants (POPs) with special emphasis on substances of emerging concern for the coastal, marine, and polar environment. He is editor of the CSIRO Journal “Environmental Chemistry” and co-editor of the EGU Open Access Journal “Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics”. 

Götz Flöser is research associate at the Helmholz Centre Geesthacht and active in Wadden Sea research. He is also responsible for organizational matters in the field of Coastal Research and has organized six “Schools of Environmental Research”. He is technical editor of the book series.

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